Anti-opioid protesters target New York's Guggenheim over Sackler family link

[G_j]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/10/anti-opioid-protesters-target-new-yorks-guggenheim-over-sackler-family-link


US art photographer and activist Nan Goldin brought the Guggenheim Museum in New York to a standstill on Saturday night as thousands of fake prescriptions were dropped into the atrium to protest against the institution’s acceptance of donations from the family who owns the maker of OxyContin – the prescription painkiller at the root of America’s opioids crisis.

Tourists and locals gawped in confusion as Goldin and fellow demonstrators began chanting criticism of the Sackler family, who owns Purdue Pharma. The activists handed out fake pill bottles as sheets of paper fluttered down inside the landmark building.

Other protesters unfurled banners from the higher floors, one reading: “Take down their name”, referring to the Sacklers’ links with the institution.

Goldin, who narrowly avoided dying of an opioid overdose after being prescribed OxyContin pills, is campaigning for art and academic institutions in the US and Britain to refuse philanthropy from the multi-billionaire Sacklers

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/10/anti-opioid-protesters-target-new-yorks-guggenheim-over-sackler-family-link

[Blues Heron]

1. Nan, just because you and all your friends

were gobbling them like chiclets doesn't mean everybody else now should have to go without.

[fescuerescue]

2. I guess it's the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon game of Museums

Lets see.

A Museum Takes Donations from a family, that owns a drug manufacturer, who's drugs are prescribed by doctors, which are issued by pharmacies, and taken by some patients that abuse them.

That's only 5 degrees. Yep. It's definitely the Museums fault.

Well I suppose that's one way to stay busy on a Saturday.