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Galleries:
Peace & War
Climate Change
The G8
Dragons
Corporations
...more soon...
L i n k s
to some of my
favourite sites:
Climate Radio - a great
weekly radio show
from London.
Against the Grain - a
one-hour radio show
on politics and society.
The Oil Drum - vast &
in-depth website that
explores climate change
and peak oil, etc.
Story of Cap-and-Trade
- the new web-film that
clearly explains the
dangers of this idea.
Bamboo bicycle trailer
- fantastic example of
"appropriate tech".
Abe Books - a great
online book finding
website for new and
second-hand books.
Radio Eco-Shock - a
great weekly radio
show playing news
and views on climate
and eco issues.
Stop Hinkley - the
campaign against
what might be the UK's
newest Nuclear Power
Station.
Faith47 - south african
grafitti artist with great
talent & political sense.
Zero Carbon Britain
- see how Britain can
stop making it worse.
Transition Towns - an
exciting movement
to "decarbonise" and
prepare for changes
in energy & climate.
Banksy - one of the
best living artists.
Freak Radio - one of
the best web-radio
stations with a mix
of politics, music
and radical debate.
Dr. D - great 'billboard
doctoring' by Dr.D
Wikipedia - the vast
'open' info resource.
Wooster Collective -
a great collection
of street art from
all over the world,
updated every day!
Polyp - at last, one of
the UK's greatest
radical and political
cartoonist goes online!
DoodleDubz - is a
great image-intense
blog with lots of
'street art' and a long
list of diverse but
badly labelled links.
Unwelcome Guests -
great weekly 2hr radio
show that includes
fascinating speeches.
Open Office - is a free
fully functioning
suite of open-source
software created
by people all over
the world without
the control of any
giant multinationals.
And it works well!
Brian Haw's site - the
man who's camped
in parliament square
for the last 6 years
in protest against
the war on Iraq.
Stop the Wall - that
is being built by
Israel to cut up
parts of Palestine.
Plane Stupid - whats
wrong with flying,
and what can we
do about it.
Julian Beever - the
best pavement
artist that I have
ever seen!
Killer Coke - a good
introduction to the
crimes of Coca-Cola,
from funding death
squads in Colombia
to stealing India's
water supplies.
VLC mediaplayer - is
a free cross-platform
program that can
play almost any type
of media file.
Indymedia - a great
source of current
non-corporate news.
This link is for the
UK general page,
but the list on the
left will take you to
yor local Indymedia
site.
Smedley Butler - one of
the most 'interesting'
soldiers I've ever heard
about, famous for his
1935 book entitled
"War is a racket".
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'St. Nicked'Dec 2009 Photo-montage (above) of a spoof news story of Father Christmas getting arrested. The image was printed in CBD Alliance's ECO Newsletter on Wednesday 16th Dec at the Copenhagen Conference. Tar-sands OstrichDec 2009Photo-montage (left) inspired by Diana of the ETC Group. Stephen Harper, PM of Canada is strongly supporting the extraction of heavy oil from the 'Tar-Sands' of Alberta. It is the single most emissions-intensive project in the world and Obama recently approved a new pipeline to bring the oil to the US. Canada is the biggest provider of oil to the US. UK multinationals Shell and BP are heavily involved in this ecocidal project too. |
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Golden DragonNov 2009 Painted drape (above) of a golden dragon for a good friend who has been very patient. I started this a year ago... and... well... maybe this is what happens when I am not given a deadline. I am working on a tiny stop-motion film of the painting of this... one day. Drowning mermaidNov 2009Photo-montage (left) of the statue of the Little Mermaid on the harbour-front in Copenhagen. The cola-fired power station is really there, ironically. I just added the stormy waves and ominous clouds, as a comment. One of Canada's leading blogs, Rabble.ca published it during their coverage of the talks in Copenhagen. |
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'Let's look before we leap'Nov 2009 Cartoon (above) for the ETC Group's declaration at the Copenhagen conference which calls for rigorous assessment of technologies before they are sold / dumped on developing countries. A PDF of the 2-page declaration, and related press releases can be found on their website. Valuable Natural ResourcesNov 2009 Simple graphic (left) that would make a great T-shirt inspired by the wonderful words of Utah Phillips. This phrase was recorded in a 'song'on the 1996 album 'The past didn't go anywhere', that Utah made with help from Ani Difranco and her band. |
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New bike-trailerNov 2009 Photo (above) of my new bicycle-trailer that I made recently. Its 240cm long and 90cm wide and surprisingly light. It is also a ladder - hence the sturdy 'stern' base. Larger items can lie on top and smaller bags and boxes can rest lower in the hammock-net. I used two front forks from abandoned bicycles, and some wood (mostly FSC or reclaimed) so the total materials cost was only about 30 quid. There are quite a lot of DIY bike trailer designs online, and if you're interestedyou could start here. BAe fishhookNov 2009Cartoon logo (left) for the wonderful folks at Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT). It seems that the UK Attorney General is about to decide whether BAe systems (the UK's biggest arms-trafficker) should be investigated over their alleged bribes and corruption. |
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'They will feed us'Nov 2009 Cartoon (above) for the ETC Group's new report called "Who will feed us?" This cartoon appeared on the back of the report, illustrating the answer to the question that the report addressed. PDFs of the report and lots of other interesting information can be found on their website. Another Peace-up to save the worldNov 2009Photo-montage (left) for an invitation to a very special drinks evening in London, bringing together lots of powerful, rich and influential people to plan how to eradicate Nuclear weapons from the whole world, soon, ...cool. Surprisingly, this image was not chosen for the invitation, ...but I like it. |
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'Don't be afraid to make mistakes'Oct 2009 Cartoon (above) for Insight Share, a great team of people working on 'Participatory Video' which, in a nutshell, involves bringing film-making technology and skills to remote (and often ignored) communities around the world. Community participationOct 2009Cartoon (left) for Insight Share. |
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Creating conversations for changeCovers spread (above) for a handbook on participatory techniques that accompanied a one-day training course organised by the delightful folks at ReachAbility. Stop Geoengineering October 2009
A logo for the ETC Group. |
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Mass deportation
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Eco-buildings Open Days 2009August 2009The outer 4 panels (above) of the leaflet for the second major Oxfordshire Eco-buildings open days, organised by Ecovation, a project of ClimateXchange and COIN. |
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Cool (R) OrbitJune 2009A satirical poster / T-shirt design (above) for the winning entry in ETC Group's "Pie-in-the-sky" geo-engineering contest. |
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Verbal RemediesApril 2009 One is a series of posters (left) for Danny and friends, on their national tour of radical poetry / spoken word and acoustic music. The tour was supported by the lovely New Internationalist magazine, and raised funds for the national student campaigning group People & Planet. |
D.I.Y. banner-making: Cheap & Fast!November 2008
A short A5 (double-sided) hand out I wrote for the Shared Planet conference in Birmingham, organised by People & Planet. I ran a workshop on 'Art in Activism' and had 50 keen participants. Most of the workshop involved making 4 banners. The links on the right are to a 'print-ready' PDF, and the text for you to re-write and use in your own hand-out / email / web-page / workshop, etc. |
Right-click on a link and choose 'Save file as':D.I.Y. Banner-making PDF presented 2-up as two A5 fronts on page one, and two A5 backs on page two, of the A4 PDF. D.I.Y Banner-making TEXT just as a simple text file to re-write and share. |
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