Just Stop Oil says it will stop throwing soup at paintings and end disruptive protest | CNN:
The UK climate activist group Just Stop Oil announced that it will end disruptive acts of protest, which have included throwing soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” smashing the glass protecting the Magna Carta and spraying orange powder paint on Stonehenge.
“Three years after bursting on the scene in a blaze of orange, at the end of April we will be hanging up the hi vis,” the group said in a statement published Thursday, in a reference to Just Stop Oil’s frequent use of fluorescent orange safety vests.
There is no inducement they could make that would cause me to support their group. And I say this as someone with two electric cars and solar panels on my house.
The climate group quickly rose to prominence after it was formed in 2022, protesting in a range of headline-grabbing ways, such as invading the track during a British Grand Prix and climbing onto gantries over a major London highway.
Some of the activists who took part in the highway protests received multi-year jail sentences.
Strange how penalties change behavior.