On January 28th two activists from Riposte Alimentaire (Food Counterattack) threw soup at the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris.
Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece is safely behind glass and no real harm was done but the act made headlines around the world. So does shock coverage matter more than the message?
And are activists, particularly climate activists, about to get a great deal more radical in their protests as the crisis deepens and becomes ever more immediate?
Dana Fisher, director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity at American University in Washington and author of Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action explains why protesters behave the way they do and what turns an interested bystander into a radical activist.
‘Ready to defend our interests’: EU trade commissioner on Trump threat of 50% tariffs on imports from bloc
‘The Fourth Estate must succeed’: Clooney’s timely warning from history about Trump’s authoritarian America
Benicio Del Toro: ‘I do movies that are more than just shooting and killing’
‘It belongs with the books of Kells and Durrow.’ Illuminated manuscripts back in Ireland for the first time in more than 1,000 years
Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by John Casey.
