Climate activists smash National Gallery painting with hammers

  • last year
Two climate activists were arrested after smashing the protective glass around the Rokeby Venus painting at the National Gallery in London, an artwork previously slashed by suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914.
Transcript
00:00 [Gunshots]
00:07 Women did not get the vote by voting.
00:11 It is time for deeds and not words.
00:14 It is time to just stop oiling.
00:17 Politics is failing us.
00:20 Politics failed women in 1914.
00:25 If millions will die due to new oil and gas licensing.
00:30 Millions!
00:32 If we love history, if we love art, and if we love our families,
00:38 we must stop oil.
00:42 [Gunshots]
00:44 [Silence]

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