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.

  • Flying SquidMEnglish
    1•3 months ago

    How about doing the hard work?

    Every time I bring up Karen Silkwood and Erin Brockovich, people get very quiet.

    • @WaxedWookieEnglish
      -1•3 months ago

      Hard work - got it.

      …what hard work?

      • Flying SquidMEnglish
        -1•3 months ago

        Do you even know who the two people I’m talking about are? That might give you a clue.

        • @WaxedWookieEnglish
          0•3 months ago

          BRB - picking up the law degree and plutonium contamination that would qualify me to do take any action in response to the apocalypse.

          • Flying SquidMEnglish
            -1•3 months ago

            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.

            • @WaxedWookieEnglish
              -1•3 months ago

              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.

              • Flying SquidMEnglish
                -1•3 months ago

                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.

                • @WaxedWookieEnglish
                  0•3 months ago

                  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.

                  • Flying SquidMEnglish
                    0•3 months ago

                    I wasn’t being vague at all. I gave two examples of people who achieved success when it came to environmental damage by doing more than performative actions because “awareness.”

                    Throwing soup at paintings and gluing their hands to roads has achieved nothing. It doesn’t make people who are already aware aware. It doesn’t convince people who don’t believe it that they are wrong. It doesn’t keep something that is already in the news due to the endless extreme weather events in the news. It isn’t what drives legislation.

                    It achieves nothing other than pissing people who are on the soup-throwers’ side off.

                    I get it that you want easy solutions. There aren’t going to be easy solutions.