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Adfree Cities travelled to Manchester to host a panel at the Green Party Conference’s ‘fringe-fringe’ event, Hopeful Humanity. Our event, which was entitled ‘Our Space not Ad Space: reclaiming public space from harmful advertising’ covered the psychological damage of advertising, the limitations of the current regulating authority, and the ways that communities can fight back against it…Continue reading Our Space not Ad Space: Adfree Cities at the Green Party Conference
Wokingham Council have recently awarded the contract for bus shelter management in the borough to Trueform, a public transportation technology and manufacturing company. Trueform have applied to install double-sided digital advertising screens at 12 of the borough bus shelters. Most of these currently have paper advertising screens. One stop in the town centre, currently doesn’t…Continue reading Help stop digital advertising screens in Wokingham
On a sunny Saturday, Adblockers from across the UK gathered in Bristol for a day of planning, skill sharing and network building. …Continue reading Adblock AGM 2024
Over 30 groups took part in a week of action against “airline advertising,sponsorship and greenwash” in France, Portugal, UK, Germany, Belgium,Netherlands and Switzerland, calling for an end to adverts for products thatworsen the climate crisis. Around half a dozen bus stop advertising spaces were seen in Readingtown Centre and near the University, with posters reading…Continue reading Reading takes part in international action against airline advertising
This blog was originally sent out to our mailing list. If you’d like to be amongst the first to receive our monthly updates then please sign up here. Spring has finally sprung for many of us, and that means airlines will soon be flooding our streets with ads promoting cheap summer flights. To pre-empt the…Continue reading Adfree Cities Newsletter – April 2024
Adblock Reading has formed from a group of local people who are concerned about the proliferation of outdoor advertising across our town. Subvertising, pushing back at advertising, has been seen around the area for several years, with adverts on bus stop and billboards being repurposed to give different messages. A local paper covered a Black…Continue reading ZAP Games and Unavoidable Impact