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

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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    76·
    2 months ago

    And how will this get corporations to stop drilling for and selling and taking advantage of fossil fuels? How do you get from throwing soup to that?

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      2 months ago

      You stop the problem from being buried under the fact that everyone is struggling to get by, or distracted by whatever the fuck the likes of the Kardashians are up to. You bring it to the forefront and prompt conversations like these - conversations where someone might realise that to stay the course on this one is to roll down the road to the apocalypse, and maybe they’d like to do something about that.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        2 months ago

        But no one is realizing anything but these idiots throwing soup belong in jail

        • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          2 months ago

          The idiots aren’t the ones throwing the soup - the idiots are the ones more concerned about jailing people for a mess that can be cleaned up with windex, a rag, and 5 minutes rather than jailing the people keeping us all on course for the literal apocalypse.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
        25·
        2 months ago

        When has it ever been buried? When? Point out a time when climate change was not a major issue being discussed in the last 20 years. And I don’t mean just for a day or two like after January 6th, 2020.

        • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          When has there ever been reporting on the subject proportionate to the threat of the literal apocalypse?

            • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              12·
              2 months ago

              So there’s never been proportionate reporting on the issue.

              Yet here we all are - talking about the protest and the apocalypse.

              As we know, these protests prompt substantially more visibility and discussion than direct action.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                There was just a massive hurricane in the U.S. that killed a large number of people and is creating an ongoing disaster.

                And climate change has been discussed far, far more in regards to that than any soup-throwing could hope to achieve.