A haphazard collection of recent endeavours…
Kitsilano Beach Clean Up & Trash Audit
Despite the typically Vancouver-ish start to the day (rain, so much rain), a small army of water-proof clad volunteers assembled on Kitsilano Beach to take up buckets and trash-pickers for a deep beach clean and trash audit with Greenpeace Canada and Surfrider...
World Water Day blockade of Kinder Morgan terminal gates.
In the weeks following the Kwekwecnewtxw - Protect The Inlet March, every day saw protesters and water protectors, led by Coast Salish Indigenous leaders, marching from the Watchhouse to the gates of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Terminal where work on the expansion...
Ritual for Permafrost
Radical “Earth Preacher” Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir joined BP or Not BP in a powerful, choral ritual protest in response to BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum. Watched by hundreds of visitors, they sang to expose the irony of BP sponsoring the...
Healing With Nature
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Bridges Not Walls
On the inauguration day of the 45th President of the United States, over three hundred different groups on 5 continents got together to drop banners off bridges, with messages of love, inclusion and diversity. Our little marina crew had a merry old time getting crafty...
London Gays and Lesbians Remember Refugees
Spent this rainy afternoon with the awesome Lesbians & Gays Support the Migrants, visiting the Ministry of Defence and laying wreaths, with a minutes silence at the Cenotaph. Every year, Britain marks Remembrance Day to commemorate members of...
Wear What You Want
After pictures emerged of an armed police officer forcing a woman to remove her long sleeves and leggings on a beach in Nice, a protest beach party was swiftly planned and executed outside London's French Embassy. Sand, deck chairs and lilo's were resplendent with...
Reclaim the Power Mass Action Camp – End Coal Now
So last weekend we went and camped on a wet and windy patch of common land beside Ffos-y-Fran, the UK's largest open cast coal mine. Sorry, it's not a coal mine, it's a "land reclamation project", allowing it to break EU law and sit right beside the town Merthyr...
A History of BP in 10 Objects
A rebel exhibition in the Great Hall of the British Museum, held on the 3rd of April 2016. Bringing together 10 objects from communities around the world that are negatively impacted by BP's operations, asking the question, "Should the British Museum be in partnership...
Stolen Land, Stolen Culture, Stolen Climate.
The official media launch of the British Museum’s new BP-sponsored exhibition, “Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation”, was interrupted by an unexpected theatrical protest. A group of “actorvists” from BP or not BP?, dressed as robbers in striped...
