It has been quite just a few days for climate and animal activists as a slew of viral videos have hit the web showing various stunts at major events, from Recent York Fashion Week to the US Open.
NYFW, Coach Fashion Show
At Coach’s Spring ready-to-wear 2024 show Thursday at Manhattan’s Recent York Public Library, two PETA demonstrators crashed the runway with the message, “Coach leather kills.”
One protestor strutted down the runway naked in body paint with the phrase etched across her chest, while the opposite followed behind her (clothed) carrying an indication that said the identical thing.
A clip of the incident, captured by The Cut, shows the ladies being physically picked up and brought away by security.
“Today’s conscientious consumers know that the longer term of fashion lies in progressive vegan materials, not in cows’ sliced-off skin,” PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman said in a company release concerning the incident.
Coach didn’t yet publically comment on the incident.
US Open, Women’s Singles Semi-Finals
On Thursday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, Recent York, climate activists disrupted the ladies’s singles tennis semi-final match between Coco Gauff and Karolina Muchova.
Three of the 4 protestors, who were donning T-shirts that said “End Fossil Fuels,” were faraway from the premises while the fourth physically glued his bare feet right down to the concrete stadium floor.
In other news, a protestor super glued his feet to the concrete and there was a forty five minute delay in the US Open semi-final while they unglued him. pic.twitter.com/0IlBdSVLOU
— ACL-Sports.com®–Sports Investor (@TheRealMrACL) September 8, 2023
Protestor glued feet to the bottom at US Open. #USOpenTennis #USOpen #tennis #TennisNews pic.twitter.com/dMO2YGZQLD
— Dack (@Dack8110) September 8, 2023
The sport was stopped for nearly an hour as a result of the incident.
“Three of the 4 protesters were escorted out of the stadium without further incident. The fourth protester affixed their bare feet to the ground of the seating bowl,” The US Open said in an official statement. “As a result of the character of this motion, NYPD and medical personnel were needed in order to securely remove this individual from the stadium. The 4 protesters were taken into NYPD custody.”
Ryanair CEO
On Thursday, Michael O’Leary, the CEO of Ryanair (the Europe-based low-budget airline), was pied-in-the-face by a climate activist during a speech outside the European Commission in Brussels.
“Welcome in Belgium,” one among the activists screamed in the now-viral clip. “Stop the pollution of the f**king planes.”
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary was hit with a pie by environmental activists during a press conference in Brussels.
The activists may be heard shouting “stop the pollution” before throwing the cake at O’Learyhttps://t.co/AYlfWbXGlu pic.twitter.com/s5s4DnU2O6
— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 7, 2023
O’Leary took the incident in stride, joking to the camera after the protestors ran off.
“We’re here to debate the petition,” he said. “I like cream cakes. They’re my favorite.”
O’Leary was speaking in favor of a petition asking European leadership to allow flights flying through French airspace to bypass restrictions on the bottom as a result of a strike with air traffic controllers.
Walmart Heiress’s Superyacht Spraypainted—Again
Climate activists in Spain spray-painted Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie’s super yacht in Barcelona on Friday in biodegradable (naturally) red paint.
“Billionaires shouldn’t exist,” the words read on the side of the boat.
The 2 activist groups, from Scientist Insurrection and Extinction Insurrection, were detained on the scene for 3 hours before police released them.
billionaire Walmart heiress Nancy Walton Laurie Yacht spray painted for 2nd time. life’s tough once you’re superrich pic.twitter.com/XR62Yi8BHq
— Stevie ?❤️?♀ (@Stevie_Ca) September 8, 2023
“At the top of one other exceptional summer in terms of record temperatures and extreme weather events, the richest 1% of individuals on the planet proceed to pollute greater than the poorest 50%,” a spokesperson for the organization said. “Mega-yachts are some of the obvious examples of a way of life that’s unsustainable for the planet.”
That is the second time Walton Laurie’s boat has been defaced. In July, an activist group spray painted her boat in Ibiza with the words “You Eat Others Suffer.”