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Climate Activists Who Vandalized Artwork, Blocked Traffic Say Their ‘Resistance’ Is Ending

Just Stop Oil proclaims in a Thursday press release that it’s ‘hanging up the high vis.’

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A worker cleans tomato soup from the facade of the British Embassy on September 27, 2024 in Berlin, Germany. The attack came after Just Stop Oil climate activists were sentenced to prison terms in London for having thrown soup at a Van Gogh painting. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
NOVI ZHUKOVSKY

The British climate protest group best known for defacing priceless works of art with canned soup will be “hanging up the high vis” vests after three years of disruptive activism. 

“So it is the end of soup on Van Goghs, cornstarch on Stonehenge and slow marching in the streets,” Just Stop Oil proclaimed in a Thursday press release. 

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NOVI ZHUKOVSKY
NOVI ZHUKOVSKY

Ms. Zhukovsky studied economics and government at Dartmouth College.

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