Tag: corporates
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The circle radiates out (but corporates want to steal it’s power)
The sad thing about gentrification is that the developers KNOW they aren’t cool, that they are replacing vital communities that sell the area – the artists, the squatters, the radicals, the punks, the minorities, the queers, all these different cultures mixed together – with boring dullness. Grey square blocks crushing gardens, inner city villages and…
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Welcome to London 2012: Brand Exclusion Zone
I’ve been blogging and talking about my unhappiness of what’s going down in London 2012, and will talk about this more in the next podcast, up shortly. But this blog post talks about the Brand Exclusion zone where not only advertising by non-sponsors isn’t allowed but: This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing…
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Bernie and the Billionaire, Bread and Circuses
Love this speech from Bernie Sanders, amazingly the first self-described ‘socialist’ in the Senate if Wikipedia is correct. I wish there were more politicians brave enough to say this – sadly the currently corporate funding and lobbying system here and abroad means they’re very unlikely to do so – that system breeds corruption, kickbacks and…