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CLICK HERE:–  In an opinion piece published by The Australian, Robertson also stated: “No less than 90 percent of African heritage, for example, resides in European museums, while the British Museum refuses to return to Greece one half of the Parthenon Marbles – the world’s greatest extant treasure – and meanly clings to objects of iconic significance to our own indigenous people. It’s time for their return: no longer can once-great powers get away with mealy-mouthed words of apology and regret colonial abuses. They must surrender their loot.”

CLICK HERE:–  This morning we teamed up with Jubilee Debt Campaign to hold a solidarity protest at the ‘Elgin Marbles’ in the British Museum with a banner saying "OXI No - No More Looting - Support Greece" Many see the statues as a symbol of how northern Europe ‘looted’ Greek wealth in the past, and protestors claim that the enormous international pressure being placed on Greece to institute austerity, privatisation and deregulation represents a similar looting today. Campaigners argue that the ‘bailouts’ actually benefited the European banks, who created the debt crisis, rather than ordinary Greeks. 92% of the bailout funds to Greece went to French and German banks, research from Jubilee has shown. 

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CLICK HERE:–  This Is Performative’: Critics Mercilessly Mock the British Museum for Its ‘Hollow’ Statement of Solidarity With the Black Lives Matter Movement Many social-media users thought the institution's statement jarred with its position on restitution. Kate Brown, June 9, 2020

Hartwig Fischer. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images. Twitter has unleashed a tirade of criticism of the British Museum in London after its director Hartwig Fischer published a statement in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The institution is the latest to be called out by members of the public for making a response to the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent worldwide demonstrations that, they say, does not align with its actions. This Is Performative’: Critics Mercilessly Mock the British Museum for Its ‘Hollow’ Statement of Solidarity With the Black Lives Matter Movement Many social-media users thought the institution's statement jarred with its position on restitution. Kate Brown, June 9, 2020 Hartwig Fischer. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images. Twitter has unleashed a tirade of criticism of the British Museum in London after its director Hartwig Fischer published a statement in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. The institution is the latest to be called out by members of the public for making a response to the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent worldwide demonstrations that, they say, does not align with its actions.