A Climate Activist Goes to Jail

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2025-04-25

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Dasgupta, Sunil, host. Interview with Tim Martin. “A Climate Activist Goes to Jail,” I Hate Politics. April 25, 2025. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3chPWqC06YiZDYKXQayNAT.

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Two years ago climate activists Tim Martin and Joanna Smith poured red and black paint on the enclosure and pedestal of a famous Degas statue, The Little Dancer, in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Martin and Smith were a part of a group called Declare Emergency, which engages in disruptive protests to compel urgent climate action. Sunil Dasgupta talked with Tim Martin as his trial in DC courts finally began this month, April 2025. Music by Washington art-pop rock band Catscan!