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Resisting corporate advertising, reclaiming the city ✨ South London. Part of the @adfreecities network https://t.co/8at4YKSETi
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Joined February 2021
Big thanks to HOLA MERZI for this popping new design for the Burg Arts board! A great way to end the @adfreecities summer gathering with adblock groups around the country 🪜 #ArtNotAds
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🚨Oil giant Shell hit by guerrilla billboard action ahead of London AGM🚨 9 artists, 200 ad-hacks, 5 UK cities. Shell's dodgy PR tactics are #greenwashing its fossil fuel production🧵 Artwork by @darren_cullen, installed near #ShellAGM in London https://t.co/WCSoKK9U4G
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A belated but big thank you to the Gov's planning inspector who refused Global's appeal for a new digital screen in Waterloo, backing @lambeth_council 's decision. https://t.co/8vRGIquYJK
se1.news
An illuminated billboard near the Waterloo bus stops at Tenison Way can't be reinstated because it would represent "visual clutter," a Government planning inspector has ruled.
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A MASSIVE win in Sheffield as the council votes to ban harmful ads for ❎airlines ❎airports ❎fossil fuel-powered cars (including hybrids) ❎fossil fuel companies ❎gambling ❎vapes ❎junk food Find out more about how councils can take action: https://t.co/POVze13VRF
adfreecities.org.uk
Adverts for a wide range of polluting products and brands, including airlines, airports, fossil fuel-powered cars (including hybrids) and fossil fuel companies, will not be permitted on council-owned...
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Shocking new findings from @adfreecities - 4 in 5 billboard ads are in the most disadvantaged half of England and Wales 😲 👇Why does this matter? 👇
Today Adfree Cities launches new research revealing that people living in more deprived areas are disproportionately exposed to outdoor advertising & the UK’s planning system is too outdated to help 🧵 #OurSpaceNotAdSpace Thanks to @hark_films for the video!
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Read our new research on outdoor ads and inequality. For the first time we make clear the undeniable links between outdoor advertising and deprivation. Policymakers and the industry must take note and take action. https://t.co/3baxolB0Co
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Public space has become a playground for advertisers. But we can do something about it! Join Adfree Cities to create changes that empower communities and local councils to say NO to new ads. Find out more at https://t.co/3baxolB0Co #OurSpaceNotAdSpace
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Important new research from @adfreecities shows 82% of outdoor ads are in poorer areas. With fast food chains among the top ad spenders, there’s a direct link between outdoor advertising and health disparities. Read more on the @guardian article 👇
EXCLUSIVE: four in five outdoor ads in England and Wales is in poorer areas. New research from Adfree Cities shows clear link between outdoor ads like billboards and inequalities in income, air pollution and deprivation. Read more 👇👇👇 https://t.co/CaHLRIUffA
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📢 Last call to object this huge ad screen in #Tottenham If you live, work or play in the area and have 2 min tonight, please write an objection here 👇 https://t.co/G0PUcChE08
📞Residents in Tottenham have called us after finding about this proposed new ad screen, which would shine directly into people's houses. 🚨There's just one day left to object. Do you live, work, play or pass through Tottenham? Add a comment here 🙏➡️ https://t.co/Fbxx6pPl2D
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Tube ad hacks in London. Ads for flights & fossil banks replaced: "Adverts fuel climate chaos" 👀 #ZapGames
subvertisers-international.net
Tube passengers in London face a barrage of ads from contact lenses to anti-tiredness meds to getaway breaks in St Lucia. Sit on the Elizabeth Line, which
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Fantastic that this corporate eyesore, for brands not people, has been refused permission to dominate East London's skyline! Well done all of the brilliant campaigners who fought so hard against this shocking application.
We're delighted to share that @SadiqKhan has blocked the MSG Sphere application.
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Make Love Not Ads! The #ZAPGames2023 have begun: 2 weeks of affinity group actions against the outdoor advertising industry in the run up to #BlackFriday consumerism. (ZAP is french for Zone Anti-Publicité / Anti-Ad Zone)
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Do you want dozens of digital billboards taking up space on our pavements and polluting our minds with their corporate messages? If not sign the petition: https://t.co/eKi0bpUdo1
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Amazing news in Somerset - a new ban on adverts for fossil-powered cars, airlines, airports and fossil fuels 🙌🌍 a UK first! Will the council extend the ban to all their advertising sites? 🧐
adfreecities.org.uk
In exciting news from southwest UK, Somerset Council has adopted a new advertising policy that calls an end to advertising for fossil fuels, vehicles powered by petrol, diesel or hybrid power, and...
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Thank you @AdblockLambeth for your deputation to Full Council this evening on advertising & sponsorship of harmful products & services. Important issue. Lambeth currently reviewing its advertising policy. I will ask @DavidAmosSE11 how best I can support that review process.
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“Adblock Lambeth’s ‘Day of Action’ was a great success – but a worrying sign of things to come…” Read more about our recent day of action and what it says about the state of the advertising industry and the right to protest 👇🏼
Community volunteers from @AdblockLambeth just wanted to map outdoor advertising in their neighbourhood. So why did ad company Clear Channel UK call the cops and issue a cease and desist? https://t.co/SGp8QEq6YK
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👏Our very own Veronica on today's ruling on Shell "Shell and other fossil fuel expanders should not be permitted to advertise at all owing to their historic and ongoing role in wrecking the planet" Demand a high-carbon ad ban ⏩ https://t.co/IFen4WfY4s
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independent.co.uk
Shell omitted any mention that oil and gas continued to make up the ‘vast majority’ of its business, the Advertising Standards Authority said.
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Today we took the fight against fossil fuel #Greenwash to the doors of ad agencies @WunThompsonUK and @HavasLondon who enable Shell's lies through glossy ads and fancy PR. Taking down the climate criminals means removing their social licence✊🔥 https://t.co/mefQaML9rR
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