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Stonehenge sprayed with paint by environmental protesters (www.dw.com)

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The prehistoric megalithic structure in England has been targeted by activists spraying orange powder paint, social media footage showed.

Environmental protesters sprayed paint on Stonehenge on Wednesday, with footage showing an orange powder covering some of the stones.

Two protesters dressed in white were seen running towards two of the megaliths, spraying paint, as another person attempted to stop them, in footage released by Just Stop Oil, an environmental activist group focused on the issue of human-caused climate change.

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[-] Gakomi@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I hate this kind of idiot shit, how do they think this will help their cause? Vandalising a fucking historical monument that does not affect in any way shape or form the environment will just hurt their cause!

[-] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

A bunch of old ass rocks that you have to pay money to look at. I hope all that ancient ass shit goes away at some point and humans can look forward.

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

The most effective method of protesting would be to find a way to get the masses to turn against the lawmakers in such a way that they convince the lawmakers to solve the problem that the protest is focused against.

But most of these protests just piss off the masses. They run their day with traffic, they destroy heritage sites that people care about, and while they do get in the news and get some publicity, people's memory is quite negative. And there are zero focus on anybody who could actually change the situation.

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago

"destroy heritage sites"

It's cornflour lmfao. It's probably been washed away by now.

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

All these idiots make me want to do is go dump crude oil into the ocean just to spite them!

(Sarcasm kind of.)

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Congrats on your ancient druid curse.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 5 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Environmental protesters sprayed paint on Stonehenge on Wednesday, with footage showing an orange powder covering some of the stones.

Two protesters dressed in white were seen running towards two of the megaliths and spraying paint, as another person attempted to stop them, in footage released by Just Stop Oil, an environmental activist group focused on the issue of human-caused climate change.

The prehistoric structure dates back to somewhere between 3100 BC and 1600 BC, according to archaeologists.

Just Stop Oil has drawn criticism for targeting public treasures in the past, including the vandalism of Van Gogh's Sunflowers with tomato soup in a publicity stunt at London's National Gallery in 2022.

Less than a year later, two protesters from the group disrupted play during the Wimbledon Tennis Championships, running onto the court throwing confetti from a picture-puzzle box featuring an image of Wimbledon's famed Center Court.

On the eve of that tournament, celebrities including Richard Curtis and Emma Thompson had called on Wimbledon to end its partnership with Barclays Bank over the institution's multibillion-dollar support for fossil fuel projects.

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