Environmental activists from the Letzte Generation group threw mashed potatoes on Sunday on a painting by painter Claude Monet on display at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany.
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After the soup, the mash. Ten days after the punch action of British climate activists who had sprinkled soup on a painting by Vincent Van Gogh at the National Gallery in London, two environmental activists attacked, Sunday, October 23; to a work by the impressionist artist Claude Monet kept at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany.
We make this #Monet the stage and the audience the audience.
If it takes a painting – with #MashedPotatoes gold #TomatoSoup thrown at it – to make society remember that the fossil fuel course is killing us all:
Then we’ll give you #MashedPotatoes we painted! pic.twitter.com/HBeZL69QTZ
—Letzte Generation (@AufstandLastGen) October 23, 2022
These two activists who belong to the movement ofGerman-Austrian civil sobedience Letzte Generation shared a video on Twitter showing them throwing mashed potatoes at the board Millstones.
“People are starving, freezing, people are dying. We’re living in a climate catastrophe. And all you’re afraid of is tomato soup or mashed potatoes on a chalkboard. You know What are we afraid of? We are afraid because scientists tell us that we will not be able to feed our families after 2050”, launched in particular one of the two activists.
According to the German media, the Berlin Kurier, the police arrested the two people but it is possible that four suspects in total are involved in this new punch action..