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.

  • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    51·
    1 month ago

    Human history and culture are leverage. The fact that people care about them is why they’re valuable.

    Take a sledgehammer to an oil exec’s front door

    Yeah, go for it. I support you.

    it must be action that causes something useful to the cause,

    Public attention can spur recruitment waves for the targets you really care about. If any campaign is to be effective, you need people to know who you are.