Climate activist spreads paint on mammoth at Royal B.C. Museum
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A climate activist was escorted out of the Royal B.C. Museum by police Wednesday morning after spreading pink paint on the museum's woolly mammoth replica.
A climate activist was escorted out of the Royal B.C. Museum by police Wednesday morning after spreading pink paint on the museum's woolly mammoth replica.
Organizers of the protest described it as the launch of a new campaign called "On2Ottawa," a "caravan" that will depart Vancouver on April 1 and travel to Canada's capital.
Laura Sullivan, a 24-year-old climate activist and former UBC engineering student, applied the paint to the mammoth's tusks.
"I will be going to Ottawa as part of a caravan to demand immediate action to tackle the climate and ecological emergency, and would encourage everyone to join, especially youth," Sullivan said in a statement from the campaign.
Organizers said the caravan intends to issue "an ultimatum" to the prime minister and his cabinet for their alleged "criminal inaction" on climate change.
The ultimatum calls on the government to establish a citizens' assembly "to decide how Canada's economy will be transformed to tackle the climate and ecological emergency in the next two to three years" and threatens "waves of caravans" that will aim to occupy Ottawa indefinitely until their demands are met.
On2Ottawa described Sullivan's protest Wednesday as "a continuation of worldwide disruptions of iconic paintings and symbols to wake people and governments up to the urgent actions needed to tackle the climate emergency."
