Posted on 10/13/2025 1:57:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Two activists from the climate group Futuro Vegetal were arrested on Sunday, October 12, the date Spain commemorates the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Americas, after throwing biodegradable red paint on a painting of Columbus at the Naval Museum in Madrid.
Per reports from El Confidencial and El País, the paint damaged the left portion of José Garnelo’s 1892 First Tribute to Christopher Columbus, which is displayed at the museum entrance. The activists also unfurled a banner reading “October 12, nothing to celebrate. Ecosocial justice.” Futuro Vegetal said in a statement that the incident aimed to call attention to the “extractive neocolonialism” that continues to exploit Indigenous land and natural resources. Museum security detained the activists, who were later charged with crimes against cultural heritage and taken for questioning.
October 12 is the National Day of Spain, marking the moment in 1492 when Christopher Columbus’ expedition landed on an island in the Americas under the Spanish flag, heralding the nation’s new era of global influence. While the holiday is a grand celebration in the Spanish capital of Madrid, with smaller festivities held throughout the nation, it is also a source of contention across the Spanish-speaking world.
Critics argue that Spain should more openly acknowledge that Columbus’s legacy includes the death of tens of millions of Indigenous people, and enslavement of countless more at the hands of Europeans. In Mexico, for example, the day was renamed Día de la Nación Pluricultural (Day of the Pluricultural Nation), and in Argentina, it is called the Día del Respeto a la Diversidad Cultural (Day of Respect for Cultural Diversity).
Futuro Vegetal spokesperson Luna Lagos said Spain’s National Day “celebrates centuries of oppression and genocide against the Indigenous peoples of Abya Yala,” using an Indigenous name for the Americas. The group also called for boycotts of companies linked to extractive projects.
Elsewhere on Sunday in Madrid, some 20 activists from Marea Palestina staged a sit-in around Picasso’s Guernica at the Reina Sofía Museum. The protest demanded an end to “the genocide against the Palestinian people.” The museum gallery closed temporarily while security addressed the action, and has since been reopened.
So there you have it: celebrating Columbus Day causes Global Warming.
So... They want to celebrate thousands of years of genocide, slavery, and oppression by the “indegenous peoples”?
The Spaniards were allied with tribes the Aztecs enslaved, oppressed, gave in human sacrifices and ate.
Genocide, oppression, and slavery were not new to the Americas.
Amazing how people have little trouble getting inside European museums carrying paint
“Activists...”? It shat what you call them.
How about “Criminals...”
Columbus brought civilization to the new world. Everything these degenerates enjoy is owed to Europeans.
I wouldn’t say there was no civilization. After all, Mayans had the zero a long, long time before Europe did.
Don’t agree with it just destroy it , morons
Gosh, now we don’t know who discovered America.
Well, their hearts were in the right place so $10 fine.
sounds like a hate crime to me
America was discovered in 986 by Bjarni Herjolfsson (who got lost trying to find Greenland).
Ecosocial justice.
The perfect punishment would be for them to be chain-ganged and forced to pick boll weevils off organic cotton plants and then prepare indigenous recipes for the bugs for dinner.
Climate Activists protest Columbus who used a wind powered vessel.
“Amazing how people have little trouble getting inside European museums carrying paint”
Their cops are about as useless as ours at preventing desecration of revered and priceless artifacts.
Columbus brought civilization to the new world. Everything these degenerates enjoy is owed to Europeans.
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If Columbus had not brought that civilization, then what would have evolution and random accidents brought about in the new world?
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