With a judge ordering its boats to stay away from the oil firm’s Arctic rigs, the anti-drilling organization turns to social media and other means of getting its message out.
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times: June 10, 2012
SEATTLE — One day last week, guests from various engineering and shipping companies around Seattle were invited to a reception at the Space Needle, supposedly hosted by
Royal Dutch Shell to celebrate the upcoming debut of offshore oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean.
But most of the guests, it turned out, were actors and activists merely posing as drilling enthusiasts.
They looked on in mock horror as a giant ice sculpture emblazoned with Shell’s corporate logo began spraying a stream of Diet Coke on an elderly woman who was the supposed guest of honor. The woman, who gained fame last year when she was pepper-sprayed by police at an Occupy Seattle protest, shrieked as the emcees grabbed stuffed polar bears to help mop up the spill.
A video of the ensuing chaos quickly gained half a million views on YouTube. read more
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