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Category: Culture Jam

A billboard shows a BMW with flames reflected in the windows.

Activists target car companies in international ad-hacking campaign

January 16, 2023 James Ward

Bristolians joined international activists over the weekend to hack billboards with artworks parodying car adverts.

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the words "Bristol Airport is Big Enough" on an orange background. To the right of the image a hand reaches down holding airline tickets that read "stop adverts fuelling the climate crisis"

Campaigners call for high-carbon ad ban

September 14, 2022 James Ward

Adblock Bristol are calling on Bristol City Council to ban the advertising of high-carbon products such as airlines, airports, petrol and diesel cars, and fossil fuel companies across the city. 

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A bed of flowers on top of a bus stop.

Buzz Stop garden installed to benefit bees

July 18, 2022 James Ward

A group of residents calling themselves Bee the Change have installed a bee-friendly garden on top of a bus stop on Cheltenham Road in what they say is a call for action on nature.

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Time to declare: climate activism in the world of cricket

May 25, 2022 James Ward

On Wednesday May 11 the Jessop room of the Gloucester County Cricket Ground was filled with an unusual crowd.  Club executives, fans and players sat

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Image shows the word "Between clowning + activism: a trickster laboratory 6-12 september" on the left hand side; an image of CIRCA in action on the right. The image shows a group of clowns standing next to a troupe of armed police.

Send in the Clowns: rediscovering the clown army ahead of COP26

August 9, 2021 James Ward

Police at the G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, in 2005 were prepared for protesters. What they got was 200 clowns.  The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown

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Hostile Treatment From Police in Second Night of Unrest

March 24, 2021 James Ward

Violence was brought to the streets of Bristol again on Tuesday 23rd March as police used force to dismantle a peaceful encampment on College Green.

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