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Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

Climate activists have thrown tomato soup over two Sunflowers paintings by Vincent van Gogh, just an hour after two others were jailed for a similar protest action in 2022.

Three supporters of Just Stop Oil walked into the National Gallery in London, where an exhibition of Van Gogh’s collected works is on display, at 2.30pm on Friday afternoon, and threw Heinz soup over Sunflowers 1889 and Sunflowers 1888.

The latter was the same work targeted by Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland in 2022. That pair are now among 25 supporters of Just Stop Oil in jail for climate protests.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Right? I admit I don't have the bravery it takes to do stuff like that, but it seems like neither does anyone else anymore.

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

So... that's straight up assaut. There's a good reason why they changed tactics, and it's mostly because throwing soup at a Plexiglas barrier is 100x less destructive to property than covering valuable furs with blood.

I find it absolutely mind-boggling that you all are acknowledging that protests that make people uncomfortable are what works, then coming to the conclusion "but not like this, you can't protest like this, that's ridiculous!"

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

Heaven forbid oil executives get assaulted with soup or pies!

that protests that make people uncomfortable are what works

I didn't say they would work. None of this sort of activism will get the world to stop using fossil fuels because that involves getting corporations to stop doing it. And no amount of throwing food at anyone or anything will solve that.

But at least throwing food at the executives will be amusing.

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