Greenwash Guerillas

IssueMay 2005
News by Rose Anderson, Greenwash Guerillas

On 14 April the Greenwash Guerrillas (GG) worked outside the Annual General Meeting of British Petroleum to prevent the public from being contaminated with greenwash (dangerous profit-seeking environmental whitewash).

While most shareholders, hypnotised by the surfeit of friendly green BP logos, by the thought of ever-greater dividends, and by the prospect of a free lunch, brushed aside warnings (both personal and planetary) and marched into the meeting, at least two shareholders were not allowed to attend, which BP justified in a pre-meeting statement “We do not permit entry to persons whose conduct, behaviour or general demeanour may interfere with the good order of the meeting.”

Around 15 van-loads of police also attended the event.