Climate activists from the Just Stop Oil, the movement that gained fame for their protests in museums over the past month, are now moving on to street art.
The group has sprayed multiple buildings in central London with orange paint, a video published on their Twitter account showed Monday morning.
Six activists used fire extinguishers to shower the facades of Home Office, the MI5 building, the Bank of England and the headquarters of News Corp at London Bridge. The group said that these buildings represented “the four pillars that support and maintain the power of the fossil fuel economy — government, security, finance and media.”
“We are not prepared to stand by and watch while everything we love is destroyed,” a spokesperson said in the same post.
“The era of fossil fuels should be long gone, but the creeping tentacles of fossil fuel interests continue to corrupt our politics, government and the media, as they have for decades,” they added.
Officers responded quickly to all incidents and a “number of people have now been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage,” London’s Metropolitan Police said.
651 people have been arrested since Just Stop Oil protests began on October 1, a Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner said.
The stunt is the most recent in a series of sensational actions by Just Stop Oil and other activist groups. The group threw food at multiple works of art — none of which were damaged in the process. Dozens of Just Stop Oil supporters blocked major roads in London on Saturday morning, with drivers dragging out nonviolent protesters.
