Two Just Stop Oil protesters have been found guilty of causing criminal damage to a John Constable masterpiece.
Eben Lazarus, 22, and Hannah Hunt, 23, both from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, taped a “dystopian version” of The Hay Wain on to the original artwork on 4 July.
They then glued their hands to its frame in The National Gallery, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.
Just Stop Oil protesters on Monday mocked police by walking slowly in the middle of roads while flanked by officers, as a chief inspector claimed they had no power to act.
Scotland Yard had talked tough about disrupting the protests at the weekend, insisting it would respond swiftly and decisively to tackle any unlawful demonstrations.
A plough had to be brought in to clean up the carcasses after thousands of mink were killed trying to cross a busy road after vandals freed them from a fur farm.
VIENNA, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Climate-change activists on Tuesday smeared and glued one of their hands to a glass screen protecting a Gustav Klimt painting in a Vienna museum to protest against oil drilling, on a day when entry was free thanks to an oil firm’s sponsorship.
Climate activists say they aren’t hurting anybody by attacking art works like this Klimt just now, but they’re creating energy scarcity by reducing natural gas production, anxiety disorders in children, and multiple car accidents & at least 1 death.
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) November 15, 2022
Eco-activists poured syrup and beetroot juice – to represent oil and blood – over displays at the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona today as they called for a ‘radical system change’ to save us from ‘climate emergency’.
The two protesters, from the Extinction Rebellion affiliated group Futuro Vegetal – or Vegetable Future – targeted a replica pharaonic mummy, as world leaders gather in the Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh for the Cop27 climate summit.
Climate activists in Vancouver said they threw maple syrup on a painting by one of Canada’s most iconic artists at the Vancouver Art Gallery Saturday to bring attention to the global climate emergency.
Emily Kelsall, who identified herself as one of the people who covered Emily Carr’s 1934 painting Stumps and Sky with maple syrup, said she was with a group called Stop Fracking Around.
No charges? Given Carr’s oeuvre was cultural appropriation the gallery probably wants to ditch her work anyway.
Environmentalism has been hijacked by the technocrats
By now, you have probably heard about the rising threat of “eco-fascism”. If you haven’t, you soon will, because the number of people warning about this new danger to civilisation seems to be growing exponentially. In publications Right and Left and neither, you’ll be able to read long expositions of the origins and intentions of this frightening movement, which seems to be taking root all over the world.
The Just Stop Oil spokesman urged to stop screaming on live TV last night is a keen traveller racking up thousands of air miles when away from the stunning Welsh farm she grew up on, MailOnline can reveal today.
Indigo Rumbelow, 28, appears to have travelled to Nepal twice since 2015 – posting a picture of herself jetting there by plane at around 30,000ft.
The activist, who once glued herself to the M25 for Insulate Britain and was Extinction Rebellion’s arts coordinator from North East London, has also apparently enjoyed breaks in Sweden, Lithuania, Croatia and other beauty spots abroad.
Protesters have scrawled blue graffiti over Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans.
The two women shouted ‘we’re in a climate emergency’ as they glued themselves to the iconic artwork at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.
“Why didn’t your mother abort you?” a passerby shouted angrily at environmental protection activists who were blocking Berlin’s busy Frankfurter Allee during a recent protest.
This exchange illustrates the increasing divisions in Germany when it comes to the ever more conspicuous displays of civil disobedience employed by organizations such as Letzte Generation (“Last Generation”). A gap is growing between those who say they will fight for their future by any means within reason, and those who say that many such attention-grabbing tactics have crossed the line into criminality.
Today’s millenarians appear to be taking their cue from the Book of Revelations
A few weeks ago, I was standing in the cobbled lane that runs between Norwich Cathedral and its exquisite 14th century gatehouse when I heard a man yelling. I assumed initially that he was one of the people who had come to protest a talk that I had just given as part of Norwich’s Hostry Arts Festival, but it soon became clear that it was not trans activism that was exercising him.
Those deranged Just Stop Oil activists reveal the dangers of apocalypticism.
We need to stop calling Just Stop Oil a protest group. Protesters is far too positive a word to describe this strange assemblage of middle-class agitators, with their cut-glass accents and self-parodying bohemian names (shouts out to Indigo Rumbelow), who have been gluing themselves to roads and throwing soup at great works of art in an attempt to end oil and gas production. This thing is a doomsday cult, masquerading as a political campaign. There’s really no denying it any longer.
National Public Radio — the left-wing outfit that promoted the book In Defense of Looting — is also providing puffball interviews to one of those radical “Just Stop Oil” nuts who throw soup at a Van Gogh painting and then glued herself to the wall. On Tuesday’s Morning Edition, NPR host Steve Inskeep was promoting young, pink-haired Phoebe Plummer as she compared herself to Martin Luther King
While the world’s eyes were on Ottawa as the standoff between the Truckers Convoy protest and authorities hit its peak, one of the boldest acts of domestic eco-terrorism ever seen in Canada was committed against a construction camp in Northern BC. Just after midnight on Feb. 18, 20 masked attackers armed with axes attacked staff at a Coastal GasLink (CGL) site, terrorizing workers and causing millions of dollars in damage.
A group of activists on Friday threw pea soup onto a Vincent van Gogh masterpiece in Rome, in a protest they warned will continue until more attention was paid to climate change.
‘The Sower’, an 1888 painting by the Dutch artist depicting a farmer sowing his land under a dominating sun, was exhibited behind glass and undamaged.
Security intervened immediately and removed the protesters kneeling in front of ‘The Sower’ at the Palazzo Bonaparte. Protesters from the same group, the Last Generation, earlier blocked a highway near Rome.
