In October 2022, two demonstrators with the group only shocked the world oil by throwing tomato soup in the famous “sunflower” of Vincent Van Gogh at the National Exhibition in London. “Are you more worried about protecting the painting or protecting our planet and people?” One of them said, phoebe plummer, moments after the dumps of soup are drafted on the wall.
The painting was safely behind the glass, not author. But it mocked the soup soup. Pierce Morgan, British media personality, And invite her The verb “childish sabotage, trivial, compassionate”. Journalists and scientists have warned that this exciting would be to alienate people Under the support of climate work. Just stop the oil, however, the course did not change. they Stonenig drawn with spraying with an orange powderand Zip-Heed themselves to football goalsAnd Banning traffic in the peak hour in Londonwith Hundred Get the arrest.
A new series of podcasts digs, prompting these activists to withdraw these shocking, shocking works – and whether they are already working. In 2023, Alessandra Ram and Samantha Oldman, two journalists who met in wirelessly a decade ago, left their jobs to investigate each aspect of this story, from the siege in the streets and the court’s drama to the money corridor that supports the sabotage climate activity. After they gained confidence with the activists, they were combined with the mere stopping of oil, at some point they notice how its members are trained in the police confrontations (“they go flexible”, with their weight, which makes it difficult to get out of the street). Podcasts, “Sabotage”, fell at the best 40 Podcasts of Apple and just concluded with a conclusion chain last week.
“Vandalism” raises a major question: Are the “radical” “radical” activists really rooted? After all, SuffraGETtes actually cut famous paintings, and “sunflower”, despite all the uproar about the soup incident, which is still not available at the National Gallery. All kinds of people were arrested to attract attention to climate change, such as podcast documents, including climate Scholars and doctor Motivated by how a warmer world spreads infectious diseases. If you give a clear look at what the climate change on life on this planet, Ram and Oltman asks, what is the rational thing that must be done?
husband Firing Their production company, Media Luck Media, “to tell stories that you will not be able to stop talking about” – those that coincide only for climate change. While developing podcasts, they used the Litmus test to see if a specific story deserves to tell: If they participate while getting a haircut, will the designer be in it?
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The podcast continues in unexpected directions – one of the episodes follows a love story that is disrupted by the prison sentence, while others explore the wealthy heirs, such as Aleen Getty from Getty Oil Fortune, who give their inheritance to controversial climatic activists. Participated in the production of podcasts by Adam McCai (director Do not look and succession) And Staci Roberts-Stele of Dot Yellow Studios.
The persuasion only stopped oil activists to talk was not easy. “There are many misconceptions about this group, although they were, especially in the United Kingdom, covering it all the time,” Ram said. “People really like to hunt for them.” Journalists have slowly gained confidence by approaching interviews with curiosity instead of ruling.
“What we found really wonderful as we succeeded in understanding that they understand that they are incredibly strategists, despite the feasibility of some exciting works,” said Oltuman. For example, the protest that highlights the soup at the National Show in London was criticized as illogical-what is the relationship of art attacked with climate change? – But it turned out that the absurdity was the point. Modern research Through the London Social Change Laboratory, it appears that only the irrational protests of Oil receives more attention to the media than those that have a clear logical basis and also lead to an increase in donations. It is part of a set of increased research that appears Climate protests achieve resultsEven those that are not popular.
Just stop oil exciting works that seem to be working. Just two and a half years after the launch of the bad soup-and although the UK is decreasing on peaceful protests with it Prison sentences for years The raid on activists ’homes – only oil stops has already achieved its central goal. In the spring of this year, the United Kingdom confirmed it was Prohibition of new oil and gas drilling licenses. Just stop the oil Declare In March, it will be “hanging for light”, distinguished that its movement kept 4.4 billion barrels of oil on the ground and was “one of the most successful civil resistance campaigns in modern history.” Hundreds of demonstrators walked through Westminster at the end of April The final procedure for the group – Although he was there A lot of speculation The subversive exciting works will continue under a new name.
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Given the suspension of excessive oil procedures, you may expect activists to have large personalities. But Ram and Oltmann found that many of the demonstrators they met were shy, calm and anxious. “The gap between those who seemed to be in their actual personality and the risks they were ready to take, especially in the public front and anger, to try to move the needle on climate change.”
“Disturbance” draws their stories with sporting differences, and managed to avoid the usual caricature of the media to reveal the real people behind the movement through small and vital details. For example, for example? The night before their demonstration, they practiced the Erm Campbell in a small bathroom, where they chaos while throwing tomato soup on the glass in the bathroom.
“I didn’t act radically by joining the mere stopping of the oil,” says Anna Hollande, a soup pioneer, in the podcast. “We are facing the extinction of everything we know and love. The only radical thing that a person can do now is to ignore.”
