BP DEMO, INTERNATIONAL HEAR TIBET DAY, WEDNESDAY 25TH APRIL As part of International Hear Tibet Day , held on Wednesday 25th April.19 people gathered outside BP's headquarters in Finsbury Circus EC2. Armed with just voices, a loudhailer, banners and flags to protest against BP's investment in PetroChina, a Chinese firm which is extracting oil and gas from Tibet. The Dalai Lama has asked BP not to strengthen China's control over his country in this way, especially as it gives BP's tacit approval to the terrible abusive regime that China has inflicted for 50 years. Tibetan supporters did a fantastic job creating noise and attracting attention to the fact that BP is still investing in Petro China and their theft from Tibet. (Whether it stands for Bloody Petrol , Bloody Parasites or not is not clear). The Bloody Petrol company has been collaborating with China for 25 years and has had a long-standing disregard for human rights. Recently when asked at their AGM had they ever pulled out of a country due to Human Rights..They responded " ..Well. We'll leave that up to our shareholders to work out " See a multi-national that isn't even bothered by not having an ethical policy. There was a keen amount of interest that came from people entering and leaving the building..by the looks of it most of the employees had either been told nothing or had been informed that there was a bunch of anarchists outside ready to kill them !! ha ha! Whilst those outside chanting vociferously knew where the real anarchists were , well ecological terrorists! ,inside the building on the fourth floor!! We were informed that the directors including Johnny be bad Brown (the MD) and other directors were here.So they suffered a barrage of noise for 3 hours , Oh how they must have wished for double glazing. Spirits were good and as I have mentioned, it wasn't long before a fair proportion of the workers in and around Finsbury Circus knew of our presence. Taking leaflets and generally taking notice . I would recommend that anyone reading this thinking of coming to next event or protest should do so .They are serious but still good humoured at times and effective in that it creates bad publicity for BP , informs the general public what the company is really like when its not hiding behind its ecological façade and generally annoys them . Next time - It'll be NOISIER BP OUT OF TIBET. PETRO CHINA OUT OF TIBET. FREE TIBET. RANGTZEN!  Report By Fergus.         return to the BP files