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If you follow the news in Europe, environmental protests have been numerous and public:<\/p>\n
A relentless outfit called Just Stop Oil in the UK has created disruptions everywhere from major highways to the British Formula 1 Grand Prix<\/a>, and more recently, they threw tomato soup on a Van Gogh painting<\/a> at the National Gallery in London<\/a>. Across the Channel, the Tour de France cycling race was forced to pause during several stages by climate activists who’d glued themselves to the road.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Most recently, some of the lads decided to protest at the VW museum and glued their hands to the floor in the Porsche exhibit area Thursday.<\/p>\n
\nThe protesters have several requests for VW<\/a> Group CEO Oliver Blume as listed in a Twitter thread about the event<\/a>, among them: support for capping the maximum speed on German highways to 100 kilometers per hour (62 mph); hastening VW’s moves to lower its carbon emissions<\/a>; canceling the debt and interest payments “owed to VW by the Global South”; and “pressure the [government] to comply with our demands.” Such protests are happening so often that there’s now a standard back-and-forth. A group disrupts traffic or makes a scene. Authorities are called in almost immediately. The media follow, capturing the ruckus as protesters are unglued or unchained or coaxed down.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Well, the staff decided to handle things a bit differently:<\/p>\n
\nInstead of calling Wolfsburg police immediately, staff “recognized the right to protest,” then closed the pavilion for the evening and left \u2014 turning off the light and heat as they walked out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
One protester was removed for medical reasons. The rest stayed till Friday.<\/p>\n
\nOne protester who said of staff, “They refused our request to provide us with a bowl to urinate and defecate in a decent manner while we are glued,” and, “We can’t order our food, we must use the one provided by Volkswagen. Lights off. Random unannounced checks by security guards with bright torches.”<\/p>\n