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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.

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

“I chose to peacefully disrupt a business-as-usual system that is unjust, dishonest and murderous.”

Ah, yes, the murderous system of [checks notes] art made generations before you were born.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 14 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Stop_Oil

In April 2022, it was reported that Just Stop Oil's primary source of funding was donations from the US-based Climate Emergency Fund.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Getty

Aileen Getty is an American heiress and activist. She is a member of the Getty family, the granddaughter of J. Paul Getty. She co-founded the Climate Emergency Fund in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty

Jean Paul Getty Sr. (/ˈɡɛti/; December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American-born British petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family.[1] A native of Minneapolis, he was the son of pioneer oilman George Getty. In 1957, Fortune magazine named him the wealthiest living American,[2] while the 1966 Guinness Book of Records declared him the world's wealthiest private citizen, worth an estimated $1.2 billion (approximately $8.6 billion in 2023).[3] At the time of his death, he was worth more than $6 billion (approximately $25 billion in 2023).[4] A book published in 1996 ranked him as the 67th wealthiest American who ever lived (based on his wealth as a percentage of the concurrent gross national product).[5]

So she assuages her guilt for having a huge oil inheritance by donating some of it to encourage other people overseas to go to jail protesting other people doing what her grandfather made his money doing. Great.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 months ago

What do you expect her to do instead?

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Well, she inhereted all that money, right? Maybe... Juuuust maybe she could spend it on nuclear or green energy production technologies.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Invest in renewables?

I work for a green hydrogen production and supply company. Our financials are not amazing. If she cut a check for even a few $100k that would go a long way.

It's time to stop bringing awareness to climate change, and to actually start addressing it. If you're passionate enough to throw soup at a painting, you're passionate enough to get job training to help operate renewable energy sites.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 2 months ago

Maybe she should be the one throwing the soup if that's what she thinks need to happen?

[-] sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

So... you'd be okay with this action if she were the one throwing the soup? I'm super lost.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

No, I'm saying if that's what she thinks should happen, she should do it herself and not hide behind her money. It's not about whether or not I'd be okay with the action, it's about her cowardice.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

I dunno. if I was born into a family rich on something like oil, I hope I'd spend a bunch to end our dependence on it. chiefly because it's better than not, and I'd also have the fortune to do so, and the irony of using oil money to get us post-oil like we're Norway would be a bit of added cheek.

What should she do in her position: lay about like Bruce Wayne or try to do good like batman?

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Honestly, got no problem with that. We aren't responsible for the actions of our ancestors. The issue is whether what she's funding is effective.

[-] Gigasser@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Was it actually damaged? Seems like the only damage done was to the frame.

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Damage was only done to the frame on this occasion, yes. Their claim of disrupting an unjust etc etc etc system though hinges on them disrupting the system of... viewing priceless art in a public gallery.

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