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Climate activists arrested after spray painting UK’s Stonehenge monument

www.aljazeera.com Climate activists arrested after spray painting UK’s Stonehenge monument

UK police say they arrested two people ‘on suspicion of damaging’ the prehistoric UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Well. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Now your org gets to pay for cleanup if they don't just tell the 2 that got arrested "Good luck, you're on your own now"

What's the correlation with Stonehenge and the fossil fuel industry? No one visiting is going to see the vandalism and think "Maybe I should lessen my personal dependence on fossil fuels.", they're just going to hear how it was this asshole group that happens to be named 'Just Stop Oil'. I highly doubt that's changing anyone's mind (for the better).

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for activism. Hell, I'm all for destructive activism; Block access to oil wells, sabotage infrastructure (preferably in a way that doesn't cause more environmental damage in the process), burn down some private jets. But don't go around being an asshole unrelated to your cause just to get your name out. That's not helping anything.
- The media is lying and misrepresenting this event. They didn’t use spray paint, it was dyed corn starch. Water will remove any trace that they were there
  
  The title is definitely misleading. The article does mention that it's not spray paint though, and that it could impact the lichen.
- I think it's based on the idea that all attention is good attention, and you pick the lesser of two evils.
  
  What you are suggesting is already the case, but it tends be be less visible. For example did you know about this?
  
  “Picking” the lesser of two evils implies there is some kind of exclusive relationship between climate change and vandalism. As if this action had some kind of effect that counters climate change.
  
  But it doesn’t.
  
  Are they protesting the specific location of the factory or the concept of factories?
If you're willing and able to get arrested for the cause then go assault an oil executive. Maybe light his car on fire. Shut down a pipeline. Block a coal train. Etc. I hate to cricize anymore more committed than I am, but I really think this is counter productive. Attack the actual source of the problem. This is like punching your grandma to stop your dad from hitting your mom.
Preserve the world by destroying history? Fuck you guys.
- They didn’t destroy anything. The media is lying and misrepresenting this event. They didn’t use spray paint, it was dyed corn starch. Water will remove any trace that they were there
  
  Do you have an article link?
And yet the oil execs leaking oil into our water systems get off scot-free.
These types of "protestors" are definetly hired by oil execs
- There were very similar conspiracies popular during the suffragette struggle, the civil rights era, and the gay rights movement. They were all just as embarrassing as this one is now.
  
  This kind of spectacle activism has a long history of creating political change while minimizing violence. Pigeon-holing these brave people as pawns in some MAGA-style conspiracy de-humanizes them and makes it easier to ignore their serious message.
  
  Yea, if you're going to spectacle protest target the right people, wtf did some English brick do?

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