Activists from the Just Stop Oil environmental organization covered four selected buildings on Monday in central London with a flashy orange paint, in another protest to ask the British government to suspend new oil and gas licenses.
Around 7:30 this morning (4:30 in Argentina), six activists they spread the paint using fire extinguishers on the headquarters of the UK Home Office -Home Office-, headquarters of the secret services of MI5, of the Bank of England and headquarters of the media group News Corp, located on London Bridge.
As explained Monday by a spokesperson for Just Stop Oil, these buildings were chosen on purpose because “represent the pillars that support and maintain the power of the fossil fuel economy: Government, security, finance and media “.
“We are not willing to wait and watch as everything we love is destroyed, vulnerable people go hungry and fossil fuel companies and the rich profit from our misery, ”the source said.
The same spokesman added that “the the era of fossil fuels should end a long time agobut the sinister tentacles of fossil fuel interests continue to corrupt our politics, government and media, just as they have for decades. “
“How else do you explain a government that ignores sensible policies like renewable energy, isolation and public transportation, which would cut our energy bills and carbon emissions, in favor of corrupt gas drilling programs? And oil a taxpayer expenses? “, he added.
This latest incident involving Just Stop The Oil activists follows four weeks of “continued civil resistance” from platform supporters, leading to 637 police arrests and with 6 activists currently jailed.
A controversial group that continues to attack
Founded in 2002 with headquarters in London, the group is characterized by risky actions “to raise awareness on the exploitation of oil”. The most controversial of all was attacks on museums and art galleries.
Last Monday they stamped two chocolate cakes on the face of the wax statue of King Charles III at London’s Madame Tussauds museum.
The day before, two activists from the German group Last Generation threw mashed potatoes at one of the paintings in the series “The Haystacks” by Claude Monet, in the Barberi Museum in Potsdam, located south of Berlin.
They also threw the tomato soup “Sunflowers” by Vincent Van Gogh, at the National Gallery in London, after which they stuck their hands to the wall while one of them asked aloud “Is art worth more than life?” with the same claim of the action on Monday.
“What worries us most, thereto the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet and people? The cost of living crisis is part of the cost of the oil crisis, “she stressed.
Days later, a group of 20 people threw orange paint the stained glass windows and the entrance to the Harrods store in London.
Last July, some of its members covered a painting from the National Gallery in London with a simulated image of a bucolic landscape ravaged by fossil fuels before adhering to the work’s frame.
Source: Clarin
