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ENVIRONMENTAL activists staged a performance protest on Saturday against BP’s sponsorship of a show at Scotland’s National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh.
The BP or not BP? group, comprised of artists and activists, drew attention to the oil giant’s “dire environmental and human-rights record” by displaying paintings depicting communities damaged by BP’s oil exploration.
Protesters also displayed banners and sang songs, before ejecting mock “BP executives” from the building in protest at the firm’s sponsorship of the Portrait Awards.
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