tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889026769761133073.post8925035736944132839..comments2023-12-22T08:42:36.132+00:00Comments on Gaian Economics: Who's Fooling Who[m]?Mollyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12845612174674783187noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5889026769761133073.post-35120154402468836432011-08-26T07:09:37.507+01:002011-08-26T07:09:37.507+01:00Banksy's year before last exhibition at the Br...Banksy's year before last exhibition at the Bristol City Museum and Gallery, was a sellot-queues round the block to get in. THere was everything from a Venus de Milo sporting dark glasses and lots of shopping bags, to a sinister riot policeman rocking on a child size plane, and an old master of the Flight to Egypt with an 'Easy Jet' sign in the background. Stokes Croft, where many of his and others works feature on the walls, is a creative civil society hotspot in Bristol-now a global visitor attraction. When the so called Stokes Croft riots happened in May 2011, with police raiding a legal squat on a hot Thursday evening before a bank holiday weekend, and then kettled and moved 150 or so by then furious bystanders up the road and left them outside the new Tesco Express-some of them to 'riot' and rash Tesco's-Banksy did a 'Bomb Tesco' print(or was it "Every little hurts at Tesco?) to raise funds for the JUdicial Review of Bristol City's spineless decision to allow Tesco planning permission permission.Martin Large Largenoreply@blogger.com