Shell Action Leeds

On Oct 15th activists disrupted a recruitment talk being given by Shell at the Marriott Hotel in Leeds. Just before the talk was scheduled to begin, activists managed to enter the conference room and disable the projector, remove the boxes of promotional materials belonging to Shell and place their own leaflets on each chair. Potential Shell employees were greeted by information about how Shell damages the environment, robs the poor, murders, tortures, exploits workers and fuels the car crisis, with not an official Shell leaflet anywhere to be found. Meanwhile, outside the hotel, animal rights groups from Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool held a picket to protest against Shell’s recent contract with vivisectors, Huntington Life Sciences.