Three young women from the Brussels collective “Anonyme”, which calls itself “anarcho-poetic”, crossed the flower carpet of the Grand-Place in Brussels on Monday around 5.50 p.m., on the last day of its exhibition. Through this action, they wish to call for a fight against capitalism in favor of environmental protection.
They carried a black banner with a message written in white: “The capitalists are ruining our world. Revolt now“. The young women were taken from the floor by two staff linked to the event, who were joined by two police officers. They decided to trample on what they described as a “carpet of dead flowers” to call for a future more focused on ecology than on the economy. “The future will be radically green or simply will not be,” they defended in their press release.For our children and for us, let’s revolt !”
The members of the collective further argued that “in this period of interminable heat wave and while the world is burning on all sides, (…) we are appalled (…) to see that the people who have power only use it to enrich themselves and their friends to the detriment of the fate of the marvelous nature and of all humanity”.
They also deplored that some do not take the measure of the ongoing disaster despite the alarming reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The collective calls, among other things, to put an end to domestic flights, private jets and the development of space tourism, to allocate substantial aid to farmers who work in respect of the land, to close intensive breeding or even to prosecute rich polluters. . On the last day of the previous flower carpet in 2018, two young women from the collective had carried out a similar action, topless, to denounce closed centers for children.