By John Donovan
Royal Dutch Shell has suffered a string of PR debacles.
In October 2013, Shell Out Sounds, a group of singers, musicians and activists who opposed Shell’s sponsorship of Southbank Centre, staged an unsanctioned performance from the Royal Festival Hall’s choir seats in protest of a Shell Classic International concert.
The campaigners condemned the so-called ‘oil-branded concerts’ and condemned Shell for its record of environmental damage.
The venue dropped Shell: “Campaigners celebrate end of Shell’s Southbank sponsorship”
This was followed by a further PR set back in August of this year when “Shell to Sea” campaigners in Ireland mounted a public protest about Shell’s sponsorship of the largest traditional Irish music Festival, “Fleadh Cheoil na hÉireann.”
Within days, the Irish Times published an article reporting that “The organisers of Fleadh Cheoil na hEireann have bowed to pressure and rejected sponsorship of the annual traditional music festival by oil giant, Shell.”
A few days ago, the official media launch of the National Gallery’s Shell-sponsored Rembrandt exhibition was interrupted by an unexpected musical protest. Ten performers launched into an energetic reworked musical version of “Dr Faustus” in front of surprised journalists, staff and gallery-goers.
At one point in the song, the narrator sang:
Museum man, he bought their plan / To sell his staff, to private hands
Make deals with corporate monsters / Like Shell the oily sponsor
Security guards attempted to stop the singers but could not prevent the performance from happening. The performance finished with the singers symbolically casting the oily Shell-devil from the building.
The campaigners protest included targeting Shell’s tar sands operation in Canada.
A link to the full article, from which some of the above extracts are taken, is provided below.
The article mentions the recent success of the Greenpeace campaign against Shell’s Arctic plans, resulting in Lego dropping Shell as a sponsor.
SEE: “Musical anti-oil and privatisation protest disrupts launch of National Gallery exhibition”
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
IN JULY 2007, MR BILL CAMPBELL (ABOVE, A RETIRED GROUP AUDITOR OF SHELL INTERNATIONAL SENT AN EMAIL TO EVERY UK MP AND MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS: 
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