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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 0 points 1 day ago

Seems to me that it would be pretty difficult to encounter a media blackout to do this sort of thing at, for example, global climate summits, oil company shareholder meetings, etc.

But I'm not seeing much soup being thrown there.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

By 'media blackout' they mean 'it was a blip on the radar like this is, but this is NOW and thus relevant and important'

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

The people who talk about 'media blackouts' also seem to forget that everyone has an internet-connected video camera in their pockets.

[-] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

What are you even trying to say here? That any bastard with a camera and something to show will magically be seen, or that everyone with a smartphone is going to be aware of everything that affects them? Because neither of those things is remotely close to the way the world works.

You were aware of the JSO protesters shutting down the oil pipeline? If and that's a big "if" so, do you think the average schmuck is? No. But chances are that they're aware of the stunts like the soup.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago

You were aware of the JSO protesters shutting down the oil pipeline?

Yes.

If and that’s a big “if” so, do you think the average schmuck is? No.

Agreed.

But chances are that they’re aware of the stunts like the soup.

Which helps how? Does it end the reliance on fossil fuels? The world has been aware that fossil fuel dependence is causing global warming. What can you or I do about it? Nothing. We don't control the fossil fuel companies.

This whole idea that somehow "awareness" is going to do anything about this problem after decades of people doing these sort of stunts is ludicrous.

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