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Five members of the art activist group Culture Beyond Oil poured non-toxic black oil around the British Museum's world famous Easter Island sculpture, in protest at BP's sponsorship of the museum.

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When: Saturday, 15th May Meet: 1PM at Oxford Circus Bring: a zone 1-2 tube pass, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes Oxford Circus meeting point map: http://tinyurl.com/OCnw-SVmap Shutting down a petrol station for 5 hours on a sunny Saturday afternoon was so much fun were going to do it again. Shells Hell in the tar sands and beyond - is next in the firing line. Party 1 had Samba, twin sound systems, a live Ceilidh band, face-painting, free cakes and 200 people. Party 2 will be bigger and better, with activists joining us from Brighton, Oxford and beyond.

BP is about to join the scramble for the tar sands. 'Beyond petroleum' has become 'back to black' as BP's plunge into the most destructive extraction project on Earth makes a mockery of its own PR greenwash. On Fossil Fools day, 2010, London Rising Tide and the London Tar Sands Network decided to help BP with a rebranding strategy to reflect their renewed commitment to environmental devastation and catastrophic climate change.

During the UN Climate Conference in December 2009 a demonstration was held outside the Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen to protest against the environmental devastation of the tar sands (oil sands) mining operations in in Alberta. Naomi Klein and others give speeches about the impact of tar sands on the climate and First Nations communities in Canada.

During the UN Climate Conference in December 2009 a demonstration was held outside the Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen to protest against the environmental devastation of the tar sands (oil sands) mining operations in in Alberta. Naomi Klein and others give speeches about the impact of tar sands on the climate and First Nations communities in Canada.

COP15 Climate Summit 12 December 2009 inside the Råhuset Convergence Centre in Copenhagen

UK activist group Climate Camp demands real solutions to climate change while occupying corporately sponsored "Hopenhagen" at the Cop15 starting at 8pm on a sub-freezing Thursday night in the heart of downtown Copenhagen. Climate Camp exposed the corporate "green-washing" that is being advertised and sold to the world by green-capitalists as solutions to the global climate crisis. This action was help in solidarity with Climate Camp activists who were simultaneously occupying Trafalgar Square in London.

The film features an interview with a Swedish local councillor who was one of the 968 protesters who were detained by the Danish police. There is also footage from the hit the production demo on the 13th.