Two activists from the Futuro Vegetal collective threw colored powder on the facade of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona yesterday to protest the complicity of various governments in the fires that ravaged the Iberian Peninsula this summer. The two activists were stopped by security officers at the monument, detained by police and then released after paying a 600-euro fine.
“We threw colored powder on the facade of the Sagrada Familia to protest against the complicity of the various governments in the fires that devastated the peninsula this summer,” reads a post published on Futuro Vegetal’s social media, which is accompanied by a video of the action. “According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food itself, about 70 percent of forest fires are caused by livestock-related activities,” the post continues. “However, subsidies to this system do not stop and, in fact, fires have been used by the meat lobby as a propaganda tool. The various governments are once again prioritizing watering livestock farms with public money instead of protecting people who have lost their homes in the fires.”
“We don’t want ecocidal industries to be subsidized with our taxes. We want public funds to go to workers like firefighters or health workers,” the collective concludes.
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| Barcelona, two activists throw colored powder on Sagrada Familia. 600 euro fine |
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