"Our intention was never to damage the stones. We deeply value and revere this monument as much as anyone else. It's part of everyone's heritage and there's no circumstance under which we would damage it. But we are facing an existential crisis. We can't do much we're tiny people but we are trying to compel our establishment, our leaders, to take positive action to mitigate the great harms which are coming."
"We were very confident that it wouldn't cause any damage or harm anybody that was there. It's a bit like a magic trick. Let's say you're a magician, you do the trick, or you cut the lady in half, but there's a brief moment where everyone thinks that is what you did and that's what gets the attention."
Three Just Stop Oil activists—Rajan Naidu (74), Luke Watson (36) and Niamh Lynch—covered three Stonehenge stones with orange powder shortly before the summer solstice. The powder, made from cornflower and food dye, was removed at a cost of £620. The activists checked the stones were non-porous and asserted the powder would not cause damage. The action was presented as a proportionate response to the climate emergency and criticised the law under which they were prosecuted. The three were acquitted at trial. The group framed the protest as non-violent civil disobedience aligned with prominent environmental figures.
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