Just Stop Oil activists paint the facade of four iconic London buildings orange as an environmental protest

• Art A group of environmentalists throw cans of tomato soup on Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' at the National Gallery in London

Activists from the environmental organization

have covered four selected buildings in central London with a striking orange paint on Monday, in another act of protest to demand the British Government to

Around 7:30 this morning, six activists from the aforementioned platform spread the paint using

on the headquarters of the British Ministry of the Interior -Home Office-, the headquarters of the MI5 secret services, the Bank of England and the headquarters of the News Corp media group, located on London Bridge.

According to a Just Stop Oil spokesperson, these buildings were chosen on purpose because "they represent the

fossil fuel economy: government, security, finance and media."

"We are not willing to stand by and watch as everything we love is destroyed, vulnerable people go hungry, and fossil fuel companies and the rich profit from our misery," the source said.

The same spokesman has assured that "the fossil fuel era should have ended a long time ago, but the sinister tentacles of fossil fuel interests continue to corrupt our politics, government and media, just as they have been doing for decades".

"How else do you explain a government that ignores sensible policies like renewables, insulation, and public transportation, which would cut our energy bills and our carbon emissions, in favor of corrupt gas drilling programs? and oil at taxpayer expense?" he added.

This latest incident involving Just Stop The Oil activists follows four weeks of "continuous civil resistance" by supporters of the platform, which has resulted in 637 police arrests and 6 activists currently in jail.

This environmental group was the same one that threw tomato sauce on Van Gogh's painting of sunflowers in the

in London.

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