Phoebe Plummer, 23, receives two-year prison term while Anna Holland, 22, given 20-month sentence over incident

This was the one soup-throwing which did any damage at all; in this case to the frame.

The penalty is appreciably worse than for minor violent attacks.

  • Lyre@lemmy.ca
    413·
    1 year ago

    Ya so they threw soup on a protective pain of glass in front of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, the painting is fine. The article confirms this but tries to downplay it for some reason.

  • Bertuccio@lemmy.world
    242·
    1 year ago

    From TFA “The pair of you came within the thickness of a pane of glass of irreparably damaging or even destroying this priceless treasure, and that must be reflected in the sentences I pass.”

    Sooooo fucking close…

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    193·
    1 year ago

    They jailed the suffragettes for pulling off ridiculous tactics. The suffragettes still won, because they were right, no matter what protest tactic they used.

  • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
    153·
    1 year ago

    The boycott makes a innocent sufferer of the bus company. Had the company defiled city and state laws its franchise would have been canceled. The quarrel of the Negroes is with the law. It is wrong to hold the company hostage.

    -The Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery Alabama, Dec 8, 1955

    The white man’s economic artillery is far superior, better emplaced, and commanded by more experienced gunners.

    Second, the white man holds all the offices of government machinery. There will be white rule for as far as the eye can see.

    Are these not the facts of life?

    Let us be specific, concrete. What is the cost is the bus boycott to the Negro community? Does any Negro leader doubt that the resistance to the registration of Negro voting has been increased? Is economic punishment of the bus company - an innocent hostage to the laws and customs of Alabama - worth the price of a block to the orderly registration of Negro voters?

    -The Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery Alabama, Dec 13, 1955

    Posting this for no particular reason every time I see folks complaining about protestors “not protesting the right way”

    • Five@slrpnk.netEnglish
      116·
      1 year ago

      People who get angry at Just Stop Oil tactics are just showing their ignorance of civil rights and protest history.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      46·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I just pissed on some lady to stop big oil. Like The Civil Rights Protestors!! And they’re telling me I protested wrong! HA!!

  • The Pantser@lemmy.world
    78·
    1 year ago

    I mean they are at least right that it was painted with oil paints but painted way before oil was a problem. They should be throwing soup on gas pumps, just go around and dump it all over the pump. Dump it on oil trunks too, like inside the cabs.