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Activists in 10 UK cities have covered billboards and bus stops with spoof HSBC adverts, accusing HSBC of ‘climate colonialism’ and demanding the bank end its financing of fossil fuels, detention centres and climate destruction. Over 250 billboards, bus stops and tube ads featuring HSBC advertisements have been hijacked (IMAGES HERE), including in London and…Continue reading Campaigners reject HSBC’s ‘net-zero ambition’, targeting billboards over ‘climate colonialism’
One local resident’s determination to get a bank advert removed from a quiet residential street has finally been successful. On Monday 12th October, contractors removed the hoarding from the side of a residential home on the corner of Horley Road and Mina Road in St Werburgh’s, Bristol. With help from Adblock Bristol, the residents have…Continue reading Residents’ victory as another billboard removed in St Werburgh’s
Above: Artwork by RTiiiKA The evening of 10th July 2020 saw a small socially-distanced crowd of people gather below an advertising billboard in the Easton district of Bristol. They gathered in celebration of an image depicting the highly publicised toppling of the Edward Colston statue seen only weeks earlier. The toppling of the statue of…Continue reading Artwork launch, Easton billboard takeover