Two activists affiliated with the Spanish climate emergency group Futuro Vegetal were arrested at the Museo Naval in Madrid on Sunday, October 12, after throwing biodegradable red paint over a historic painting depicting Christopher Columbus. The group scheduled its action on Spain’s National Day, also known as Día de la Hispanidad, which commemorates the date on which Columbus arrived on the island of Guanahani in 1492. To futurovegetal, whose mission is to remediate environmental harm and water diversion by ending reliance on livestock farming, October 12 signifies “centuries of oppression, exploitation, and genocide against the indigenous population of Abya Yala,” the group said in a statement on Instagram, using an Indigenous Guna term for parts of the Americas. Futuro Vegetal decried any celebration of Columbus’s legacy, calling for an end to the “glorification of colonization and genocides, both historical and current.” The demonstrators — both women — splattered paint across t...