Seeing dozens of snarky comments about how Just Stop Oil should Respect Art and throw soup on BP and begging y’all to read just one book on their clear inspiration (and perhaps the most successful UK protest movement of all time - the suffragettes www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Just Stop Oil activists throw soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers after fellow protesters jailed

Three individuals targeted National Gallery paintings an hour after Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland were jailed for similar attack in 2022

I am not just making this up — they have been incredibly clear they are mimicking suffragette protest (even targeting some of the same artwork), which sought to disrupt daily life and leisure for the middle and upper classes. theconversation.com/just-stop-oi...

Just Stop Oil attack the Rokeby Venus: how the group is using the suffragettes’ disruptive tactics to shape public opinion

The group of climate activists are drawing on a history of public action to show that what they are doing is not new at all