Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Stop Advertising Overload


'Stop advertising overload!'
Written in red paint, the slogan is slashed furiously across a giant poster ad. Such scribbling has become a monthly ritual in Paris, where 'anti-advertising' militants perform what they dub 'acts of civil disobedience,' in direct view of often benevolent police officers.
'Let the police do their job!', David Sterboul, a leader of a group that calls itself the 'Dismantlers', Les Deboulonneurs, ordered his troops one evening at the Place du Trocadéro, near the Eiffel Tower. About 60 sympathizers had gathered to applaud the Dismantlers' latest doodling on three illuminated billboards.
The Dismantlers drew more cheers from the crowd when, ten minutes later, they were escorted from their post by police.
'It is a question of democracy,' said Sterboul, who expressed frustration with what he believes is a failure by local authorities to take action against 'the privatization of public space.'


Could it catch on here?

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