SHELL AGM
Shell’s executives and shareholders will gather for its AGM in London next Tuesday 21 May 2024.
I made this poster as part of a Brandalism campaign, featuring 8 other artists, which has taken over 200 billboards, bus stops and London Underground tube carriages, to highlight Shell’s PR and advertising strategies, which attempt to create warm brand associations amongst climate-conscious youth audiences whilst at the same time accelerating fossil fuel production.
Shell is advertising to kids, cosying up to politicians, paying influencers and co-opting the emotional connections we have with sports to launder their public image.
But behind its billion-dollar marketing efforts the company is back pedalling on its own green pledges, profiting from our soaring energy bills and facing legal challenges across the globe for violating human rights. 
There will be a protest and actions taking place around the Shell AGM. Fossil Free London and others are meeting at 8am outside the InterContiental Hotel London, O2, 1 Waterview Dr, London SE10 0TW.
The Hell Bus will also be coming out of hibernation soon and back on the road (see below for details!). Unfortunately for me that also means its insurance is up for renewal soon which cost £4000 last year! If you’re able to chip in at all towards the ongoing running costs of the Hell Bus I really appreciate any and all support!
DON’T REGRET IT
It’s been incredibly heartening seeing the student protests, encampments and sit-ins 
happening around the world, in contrast with and in opposition to the unrelenting horror that Israeli forces continue to inflict on the besieged civilians of Gaza.….
Here’s some quick DIY subvertising from earlier this week. Did you know that most bus stop ad spaces in the UK are easily openable with a H60 or a T30 security hex key? You can find them easily online (also via my website shop)
Although I can’t suggest you use them to do anything illegal. All sales for research purposes only! As this quote from Keir Starmer below says:
HELL BUS RETURNS TO LONDON & GLASTO
The Hell Bus, my pre-apocalyptic greenwashing roadshow (as seen on Channel 4’s Joe Lycett Vs the Oil Giant) is coming back to London for the Lambeth Country Show weekend in Brockwell Park. Free entry!
The bus will also be returning to Shangri-La at Glastonbury Festival at the end of June 🍻
As I mentioned above, the annual Hell Bus running costs are starting to mount up and I’ll be getting another £4000 bus insurance bill in June. If you’d like to help out by buying yourself or a friend some Hell merch, or just chipping in with a donation, that would be amazing thank you.
QUICK SHITE
I love it when you only have to change one word.
Low calorie, low effort subvertising.
PITS AND PERVERTS – 40TH ANNIVERSARY
Last night I went to the absolutely amazing 40th anniversary party of Pits and Perverts, which was a fundraising concert put on in 1984 by Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners to raise funds for south Wales coal miners during the miners strike. Many of the surviving members of LGSM and NUM were there, as well as their modern sister-org LGSMigrants.
It is an incredible story, one that was told brilliantly in the 2014 film, Pride. Which I highly recommend watching if you’ve not seen it! The fact that LGBT+ rights in the UK were partly won through solidarity with coal miners in the trade union movement is both mindblowing and eternally inspiring.
I posted some videos from last night on my Instagram story, but I’ll also find somewhere more permanent to post them soon.
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