Tag Archives: Climate Change

Human Cost

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Another superb intervention entitled ‘Human Cost’ by Liberate Tate at Tate Britain on the 1st anniversary of the Gulf of Mexico disaster, this is from the press release: “On the same day, 166 people who work in the arts published a letter in the Guardian calling on Tate to end its sponsorship relationship with BP. [...]

Hammering Out The Truth

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“We see art not as a mirror to hold up to reality but as a hammer with which to shape it.” -Bertolt Brecht „Battle of the Spectacle“ is an art project by Electic Electric Collective operating at the crossroads of art and environmental activism. This giant hammer will try to ‘stamp out the COP16 negotations [...]

Green Patriots Protest Project

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Green Patriot Posters is a communications campaign centered on posters that encourage all U.S. citizens to build a sustainable economy. Featuring some great designs including Signs of Revolt’s Noel Douglas , Green Patriot Posters has grown out of the successful website greenpatriotposters.org, which invites designers and artists to submit posters dealing with environmental issues. Containing [...]

Liberate Tate From Oil!

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Art activists under the umbrella name Liberate Tate–including Signs of Revolt exhibitors The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination–have been hard at work this year trying to end the Tate’s sponsorship by Oil company BP. In May during the 10th Birthday celebrations they entered the Turbine Hall of Tate Modern and launched dozens of giant black helium [...]

London is Revolting!

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More invitations to play! Phew…what a weekend! Hundreds at the opening, hundreds more visiting over the weekend, the 500 in our initial consignment of catalogues gone, Over 100 registered for the talks, which will be put up online once we get a chance to edit them! The screening of the superb, inspiring and deeply moving [...]

Signs of Revolt Show Opens Friday 13 (Lucky for Anti-Capitalists!)

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So we’re just bunkering down, printing final files, getting tools and bits of wood into vans, ready to start installing tomorrow. The Opening is on Friday 13 at 6pm, Shop 14 is at the entrance of the Truman Brewery closest to Spitalfields market, nearest tube: Liverpool Street. Just a reminder if you want to attend [...]

This Is What Democracy Looks Like!

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10 years ago, in November 1999 an alliance of direct action activists, environmentalists and trade unionists shut down the meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Seattle, stopping the next trade round of Capitalist Globalisation. In the process they sparked a Movement of Movements right across the globe its slogan became ‘Another World is Possible’. [...]