Protests erupted inside New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Saturday night as demonstrators demanded the museum ditch its ties with the Sackler family ― the owners of Purdue Pharma, manufacturer and marketer of prescription painkiller OxyContin. The museum’s Sackler Center for Arts Education, which includes multimedia labs and lecture theatres sprawled out over 8,200-square feet, was a gift from the family and opened to the public in 2001. Footage of the incident uploaded to Twitter show leaflets being thrown from one of the museum’s upper walkways as some protesters staged a die-in. Protestors staged a die-in & dropped flyers @ the #Guggenheim tonight demanding that the museum remove the name of the Sackler family, owners of ⁦@purduepharma⁩ that produces OxyContin. Read more: https://t.co/UjEqeTLfYr pic.twitter.com/pRmoS3qRKY — Andrew Kimmel (@andrewkimmel) February 10, 2019Amazing to be @Guggenheim as protest erupts about Big Pharma.

Source: Huffington Post February 10, 2019 04:30 UTC