“We caused the 2011 riots by shooting dead an unarmed civilian and then lying about it. And we got away with it.”
So says one of the full-height bus-stop adverts that’s been springing up around cities across the UK, emblazoned with a doctored police logo with the words “City Racist Police” stamped over it.
More STRIKE! counter propaganda spotted in North London. #ACABhttp://t.co/lG1UToNh2mpic.twitter.com/nR4xPQUCrY
— STRIKE! magazine (@strikeyo) December 13, 2014
Another read: “You’re 28 times more likely to be stopped and searched in London if you don’t have white skin, because we’re still really racist.”
There are photos circulating on Twitter that seem to show police cordoning off the posters. Some bystanders are saying that they have been asked by police not to take photos of them.
Now we know who’s behind the provocative posters: STRIKE! magazine.
The counter-culture mag focuses on “politics, philosophy, art, subversion and sedition”, it says on its website.
STRIKE! has announced via Twitter that it was behind the campaign – well, it’s admitted to designing the posters, at least. It’s claiming ignorance over who put them up.
Journalists: It’s STRIKE! Magazine (though our Facebook page obviously lets us down enormously in this respect). http://t.co/xNyQ6EymCT
— STRIKE! magazine (@strikeyo) December 15, 2014
Since then, it’s been posting links explaining its thinking for the posters.
You can find out more from STRIKE!’s posts here:
- https://www.facebook.com/strikemagyo/posts/410883792393826
- http://strikemag.bigcartel.com/product/no-2-the-public-the-police-and-the-rediscovery-of-hate
To everyone who’s saying the police didn’t cause the riots, that’s not what the LSE are saying… #ACABhttp://t.co/NCFAfUjz0L
— STRIKE! magazine (@strikeyo) December 16, 2014
Not only did the posters redress the Met’s propaganda, they also took out corporate propaganda (advertising)…. http://t.co/CoTpEqi0MB
— STRIKE! magazine (@strikeyo) December 15, 2014
Clear Channel, which owns the advertising space, has said that it will remove the posters as they are not part of an official campaign.
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