A Big Oil heiress is a key funder of a sprawling global network of grassroots climate groups, including the U.K.-based Just Stop Oil, which staged a protest Friday vandalizing a famous painting.
Aileen Getty, the granddaughter of the Getty Oil founder, is the founding donor of the Climate Emergency Fund (CEF), a Los Angeles-based organization that finances several high-profile climate protest groups around the world. Getty, who is a prolific environmental philanthropist, wired $500,000 to CEF shortly after it was founded in 2019, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Boosted by Getty’s initial and continued contributions, CEF has awarded millions of dollars to radical groups that have engaged in disruptive protests worldwide. Among CEF’s grantees is the A22 Network, which is made up of Just Stop Oil, the U.S.-based Declare Emergency and groups in nine countries including Germany, France and Canada.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/big-oil-heiress-funding-just-stop-oil-group-threw-soup-van-gogh-painting?intcmp=tw_fnc
In recent months, the group has repeatedly organized protests in which its members have glued themselves to famous paintings. Just Stop Oil activists have also blocked major roads and highways in the U.K., in some cases forcing emergency vehicles to take different routes to their destination.
There’s nothing new here, whiny narcissistic children prattling on in their deluded sense of moral superiority and committing vandalism, financed by the spoiled heirs of industrial magnates, who can only give meaning to their luxurious but empty lives with virtue signaling.
If you watch the video, either because it loads above or you go to link, note the inflection of the girl speaking. It’s an exact Greta Thuneberg imitation. The indoctrination is ubiquitous.
I’ve embedded the video, but Fox News embeds are notoriously slow to load.
Also, by choosing Tomato Soup (cans), an extremely important historical symbol in American modern art, ala Warhol, they have actually created a performance art piece which could be said to have an interesting media-is-the-message self-referential art loop. Campbell’s would have been a better choice.
I doubt many art critics will take note.
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Whoops! Double posted. My brain must have been hurt by looking at that picture of the wally in a dress.
Skirt. If it was a dress those 2 bits of clothing would likely be joined in the middle.
“A Big Oil heiress is a key funder of a sprawling global network of grassroots climate groups”
So these green groups are being funded by Big Oil. Who knew? But I guess it makes sense. The more these climate groups attempt to stop oil, the more the price of oil goes up, and the more money Big Oil makes.
I think the word “philanthropist” is misused in the article. “Misanthrope” would be more accurate.
After the instant criticism, leftists are trying to portray this as “Big Oil” trying to make climate activists look bad.
They don’t have to try very hard 🙂
climate activists don’t need anyone’s help in looking bad, they are very effective at doing so all on their own
Socialists are experts at blaming their failures on others.
I sincerely hope I’m in an art museum when one of these events is about to happen and their camera person gets to film me tackling them as hard as I physically can.
I think they said something like “What is more important, art or life”. Normally I’d say life but I can make exceptions.
The funny thing is that you can bet most/all of them are also strong supporters of abortion on demand at any time up until birth (or even after birth as per some proposed failed bills that would have allowed post-birth abortions, IE Infanticide, up to 28 days after birth). What was that about the importance of life?
I wonder what would’ve happened if the museum simply closed the room to public access, removed all the artwork from the room, turned off the lights and closed locked the doors to the room leaving the protesters glued to the wall?
alas, the Getty klan is also responsible for fostering a young unattached boy named Gavin Newsom and has made him into their puppet governor of California, pushing all of their climate nonsense goals to destroy the energy economy of CA, a state which has enough mineral energy resources to power the entire USA for centuries – even if Texas didn’t exist.