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.

    • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      I don’t know how many times I need to say this. THAT IS ASSAULT. In most countries that is years of prison. Soup on a Plexiglas barrier is, at most, a few days for disturbing the peace and vandalizing protective equipment. What doesn’t make sense about this to you?

      • ravhall@discuss.onlineEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Because soup on plexiglass doesn’t save humanity?

        I think some soup on a person is a small price to pay. Frankly, I feel beheading a few million rich people and their spawn is also a SMALL PRICE for eliminating the problem with humanity.

        But let’s start with the soup.

        What doesn’t make sense about this to you?

        • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 months ago

          I mean if that’s your opinion, I’m right there with you. It’s a drastic solution, but it might work! Problem is, who are you going to get who’s okay with a serious crime and a prison sentence on their record? It doesn’t matter what action they actually do as long as people talk about it. If the news got all up in arms about them putting up posters on their local community board, then I’d suggest that they do that.

          I’m going to keep saying “what doesn’t make sense about this to you?” because I feel you’re being wilfully obtuse.

          • ravhall@discuss.onlineEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            Oh, you can’t get anyone to do it. Because even then change would probably never happen.

            Humanity is over, I’m down for whatever ends it the fastest and lets the earth wipe us from existence.

            Long live Earth.