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.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    Well I just started peeing on people while yelling “Stop Big Oil!” and although I’m embarrassed to admit it, that does make me exactly like Dr. King. Oh, sure it may get me some jail time but that’s what fighting for freedom takes. Er, fighting big oil. Freedom from big oil.

    And hey if my POV videos get me a few million clicks on the site in the meantime, I can’t blame the people. They’re hungry for justice!

      • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        You mean the American Public that burned the Beatles records because John said they were “bigger than Jesus”? The American Public that treated German POWs better than black Army servicemen? That American Public?

        What’s the source of that cartoon? I’m interested to know if it was in fact from Birmingham.

    • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      2 months ago

      You are either extremely deluded or a little deluded and almost intentionally misunderstanding their aims.

      Climate activists have been chaining themselves to oil infrastructure for decades. How many times can you honestly say you’ve heard of it? I’ve heard of maybe one instance, and it got very little news coverage.

      JSO has recently pivoted to this strategy of (temporarily) vandalizing monuments and works of art. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME it happens, it’s all over the news and spawns endless discussion. Almost like IT’S FUCKING WORKING.

      I award to you the Useful Idiot Ribbon.

      • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        2 months ago

        Yeah people do talk about what clueless freaking idiots they are. It sure is working! It’s jenius! Wait til Madison Avenue figures it out!

        Climate activists have chained themselves to trees, to construction equipment, to the property of the companies they protest. THAT is serious action.

        Throwing soup in a museum is completely tone deaf, utterly counterproductive and pathetic.

        • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          21·
          2 months ago

          Climate activists have chained themselves to trees, to construction equipment, to the property of the companies they protest. THAT is serious action.

          You know we need more people doing stuff like this, right?

          Not “climate activists.”
          You.

          Have you been inspired to chain yourself to oil infrastructure? To accomplish something real?

          • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            2 months ago

            I have been inspired not to make a mockery of that action by doing something idiotic and posting it to Instagram pretending it’s serious.

              • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                I already told you. I’m pissing on people to Stop Big Oil. I’m a hero. Just because you don’t understand doesn’t mean it’s not absolute genius. You could learn from politically aware activists like me.

                • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  So, if just stop oil were peeing on people like… you are, I guess, you would be happy with that?

                  I know it feels really good to be angry and indignant, but I mean it, what have you done? Have you organized anything? Have you inspired people to take action?

                  You don’t have to agree with Just Stop. But the topic of conversation has come up. We’re talking about it. What will you do to save humanity from the sheer cliff it’s about to drive over?

                  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    2 months ago

                    So, if just stop oil were peeing on people like… you are, I guess, you would be happy with that?

                    The peeing on people is a metaphor for throwing soup in museums.

                    I know it feels really good to be angry and indignant, but I mean it, what have you done? Have you organized anything? Have you inspired people to take action?

                    Yes. Not as much as you, of course.

                    What will you do to save humanity from the sheer cliff it’s about to drive over?

                    I try to make the best decisions I can in everyday life for sustainability and consumption. I don’t need to cause a spectacle in a place of learning and culture to embarrass everyone who’s job is to make things better. And I have been apparently blessed with an overabundance of good sense not to cause meaningless chaos that hinders the very efforts I think I’m supporting.