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

        Yesterday you were not talking about climate change. Today you are. Because someone threw soup at a painting and sat down, waiting to be arrested. Had they not done so, you likely would not be talking about climate change.

        • eatthecake@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Noone is talking about climate change. They’re talking about shitty protest tactics and why they hate them.

        • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          We’ve been talking about climate change either way. We’re also not talking about climate change, but people claiming climate change while vandalizing.

          • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            3 months ago

            Perhaps you are. I would assume you’re already probably at least somewhat on board with environmental causes.

            How do you think a person who lives in the middle of nowhere, doesn’t have much of an education or anything, would react if they saw someone doing this? Probably that they must care a lot to get arrested for doing something intentionally. What makes it worth it? What are they about? Oh, something called Just Stop Oil… oh, an environmental group. Something called climate change? If it’s actually happening, I guess we should be doing something about that.

            • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
              2·
              3 months ago

              How do you think a person who lives in the middle of nowhere, doesn’t have much of an education or anything, would react if they saw someone doing this?

              Fucking liberals who want to destroy everything, just like how I’ve heard on the few news sources I have bombard me with propaganda all the time.

              • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                3 months ago

                I hear that, really I do. But here’s the thing - if you don’t have faith in humanity then we’re all screwed anyway. And nihilism is not the answer. Never is.