Seattle, WA (Grist)

Organizers say they will remain peaceful, but nothing is off the table.

The movement to demand action on climate change took a new turn on October 14, 2022, the day that a pair of activists in London's National Gallery tossed tomato soup at the glass in front of Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" painting.

Most people didn't like the spectacle, an attempt to grab public attention by vandalizing a celebrated work of art, but that was kind of the point. After decades of peaceful protests, climate activists hadn't gotten anything close to what they wanted. Even as people around the world had begun to experience the sobering effects of climate change firsthand -- sweating through heat waves and breathing in acrid smoke from wildfires -- global carbon dioxide emissions were

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