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Wish I'd paid more attention at CSE French. What do they say?
Graham Pugh
2010-03-23 16:27:12

cool
mich
2010-03-23 16:30:22

One more I saw http://twitpic.com/19ei2d
Fouapa
2010-03-23 16:38:17

Some translations :

"The state protects the banks, the wealthy and the corporations...what about us?"

"Zone of brain intoxication"

"Double your profit : demand a new planet"

"I see nothing, I hear nothing, I say nothing...I'm a good citizen."

The others are french puns impossible to translate or things that don't make much sense.
Fouapa
2010-03-23 16:42:26

Actually the Stop Pub movement has been
going in France since 2002/3 they regularly go into the metro and do these kind of actions.
They use keys to take the posters out and replace them-the biggest co-ordinated action was when 300 activists defaced, changed and graffitied all the metro stop ads in central Paris whilst the European Social Forum (a gathering of 30000 anti capitalist activists) was in town in 2003

anyone up for it in London-get in touch!

antipub.fr
Noel Douglas
2010-03-23 17:01:21

A few more links
http://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipub
http://www.bap.propagande.org/
Noel Douglas
2010-03-23 17:20:29

Loveity love love love with big juicy loveburgers. Agit-prop makes me happy; genius agit-prop makes my heart sing.
Katy McDevitt
2010-03-23 17:26:23

"Women united will never be vainquished. We are all witches like the others"
"electronic voting = electoral piracy"
down with spending - long life to cats" ( world play on l'achat - les chats)
laurent bourscheidt
2010-03-23 17:26:52

I guess there needs to be a worldwide movement to protest via these advertising spaces which bombard us with their buy buy buy messages!
Bip
Bip Mistry
2010-03-24 07:47:53

Thanks for the translations. I think this is a great idea, I hope they did not remove any other posters though. The hand writing really does add to the messages. Great article.
Logo Design Monster
2010-03-24 17:52:37

"I see nothing, I hear nothing, I say nothing...I'm a good citizen."

Thats nice that.
That would be great as a Jonathan Barnbrook poster
number8
2010-03-26 16:54:38

if you want something done. . .
Anys
2010-04-07 17:25:38

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