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.
So we rely on isolated groups quietly engaged in direct action at a scale we know for a fact is inadequate to solve the problem while calling for the arrest of people protesting the apocalypse in a manner that can be cleaned up in five minutes?
What’s your solution?
How about doing the hard work?
Every time I bring up Karen Silkwood and Erin Brockovich, people get very quiet.
Hard work - got it.
…what hard work?
Do you even know who the two people I’m talking about are? That might give you a clue.
BRB - picking up the law degree and plutonium contamination that would qualify me to do take any action in response to the apocalypse.
Neither of them had law degrees when they started and Karen Silkwood died before she even had the opportunity. But again, you apparently don’t know about them or you would know that. I suppose throwing soup is also easier than learning about what activists who put the hard work in did as well.
You understand what a hilariously stupid position it is to insist that any action is invalid if it doesn’t follow the actions of these two specific people, and that anyone that doesn’t know Erin Brokovich didn’t pass the bar before starting her action has an invalid opinion, don’t you. I shouldn’t need to point this out, nor should I need to point out the importance of diversity of tactics, but here I am.
Then I guess it’s good that I didn’t say any action, isn’t it?
Putting words in someone’s mouth is very dishonest.
You’ve done nothing but vaguely gesture at the concept of hard work, Brokovich and Silkwood. You’ll have to forgive me if you’ve forced me to draw a point out of your vagueries - feel free to articulate one though.