Go With The Floe?

Written by . Posted on 15/01/2012. Filed under Ethical Spectacle, Performance. Tagged , , . No comments.
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Liberate Tate stage Arctic ice performance in Tate Turbine Hall ‘Floe-piece’ highlights Tate’s sanctioning of BP’s risky Arctic drilling On Saturday evening (14 January 2012) art collective Liberate Tate carried out their latest unofficial performance in Tate Modern highlighting Tate’s complicity in BP’s controversial oil extraction practices around the world. At 6.30pm at the Occupy [...]

The Cost Of Money

Written by . Posted on 14/01/2012. Filed under Hoax, Street Intervention. Tagged , , , . No comments.
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Rainforest Action Network activists took to the streets of San Francisco last night and turned every Bank of America ATM in the city into an Automated Truth Machine. The activists used special non-adhesive stickers designed to look exactly like BoA’s ATM interface. But instead of checking and savings accounts, these new menus offered a list of everything [...]

The New Face Of Beauty

Written by . Posted on 11/01/2012. Filed under Subvertisment. Tagged , . No comments.
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This great parody beauty advertisement by Jess Rosten is up on Vimeo, as he says: “This commercial isn’t real, neither are society’s standards of beauty.”        

The Art of Occupy

Written by . Posted on 08/01/2012. Filed under Poster. Tagged . No comments.
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  A fantastic blog of some of the most startling images inspired by the Occupy movement, for more see: http://www.occupy-knowledge.com/mindblowing-art-from-the-occupy-movement/  

The New Face of Protest

Written by . Posted on 08/01/2012. Filed under Performance, Street Intervention. Tagged , . No comments.
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We’ve posted before about the inspiring and huge struggle for free education and against Neo-Liberalism in Chile by the brave and courageous students there, and now they are revolting in Colombia too! We spotted this image of a bit of creative face painting from the student protests there which is as effective as it is [...]

The Walls Speak

Written by . Posted on 04/01/2012. Filed under Grafitti. Tagged , . No comments.
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The inspiring Revolutions in the Middle East continue, such bravery and determination from the people there is really awe inspiring to see. Activist and photographer Maggie Osama has put together this great set of revolutionary grafitti from Egypt, she also has some great other sets from the uprising that are well worth checking out. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maggieosama/sets/72157626446700860/show/ [...]

Occupy Everywhere!

Written by . Posted on 16/11/2011. Filed under Poster. Tagged , . No comments.
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A poster produced in 1000 copies by Signs of Revolt exhibitor Noel Douglas with Issue 2 of The Occupied Times of Occupy London

Expect Us

Written by . Posted on 29/10/2011. Filed under Poster. Tagged , . No comments.
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      As the Occupy movement grows from strength to strength globally, some great work is coming out from the movement. Occupy Wall Street has produced this tumblr with some great info graphics posters for everyone in the US to use. There is also a site with design requests to self-organise and crowd source designs needed by others. [...]

The Occupied Times

Written by . Posted on 27/10/2011. Filed under Newspaper, Occupation. Tagged . No comments.
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Occupy London Stock Exchange movement protestors in London have just produced the first edition of The Occupied Times a free newspaper documenting and putting the case for the protest camp. The launch, held on the steps of St Paul’s, saw the first copy handed over to the Museum of London who will frame and hold [...]