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Just Stop Oil activists jailed for throwing soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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I said this before when JSO used "washable" paint on Stonehenge: they are punching in the wrong direction. Billionaires don't care about human life, so why would they care about a painting?
These works belong to humanity, and by defacing them, you aren't winning converts—you're just pissing people off. Go vandalize something that belongs to the billionaires making things worse for the rest of us; unless you can win people to your cause, you're going to remain small-time vandals that get outsized prison sentences and unflattering media coverage.
I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0dYQ9t5WU
I'll just leave this here: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/commentary/public-disapproval-of-disruptive-climate-change-protests/
They don't do it to become popular. They want to throw a wrench in the works to wake people up.
Ok, what’s “the works” here then? The museum? Civil society? Art?
In this case just everydays course of affairs. Generally, the disruption of the machine.
Who needs to be woken up? Who hasn't heard of climate change or Big Oil? Is defacing a public artifact going to sway Conservatives or Centrists?
Because at 86% of people saying that these acts either don't change their views on climate activism or that they negatively affect them, this seems like it's just "putting people to sleep."