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Climate Activists ‘Do A Banksy’ On 27 Tesco Branches

Climate Suffrajet | 27.04.2009 03:57 | Climate Chaos | Globalisation

At 4am this morning Tesco branches across London were hit by graffiti climate activists.





At 4am this morning twenty-seven branches of TESCO across central London were attacked by teams of climate activists. ‘The Climate Suffrajets’ used stencils and green spray paint to write on the shops’ entrance doors.

The stencils were of two energy-efficient light bulbs being smashed by planes with TESCO written above and EVERY LITTLE HURTS below. The design refers to a Tesco promotion that gives free air miles to customers buying energy-efficient light bulbs. The protesters complain that offering air miles as reward for buying energy efficient light bulbs is confusing the consumer about climate change. A spokesman for the group said:

‘Energy efficient light bulbs save tiny amounts of CO2 compared to how much one flight wastes. By offering air miles as a reward for making small environmental changes Tesco is confusing us about what we can really do to reduce our climate impact. It’s like handing out a free pack of cigarettes with every nicotine patch! As long as they continue with their campaign we’ll continue with ours.’

Last week Tesco’s weekly turnover was announced to be £1 billion, as the company benefited greatly from the recession. A spokesman from Tesco was unavailable to comment on how much it will cost to wash the green stencils from their storefronts.

Climate Suffrajet

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How much CO2 to download these photos?

27.04.2009 04:46

Please resize them!!!

Bob


No Offence

27.04.2009 07:18

But... I wasn't sure what the image was supposed to represent before I read the explanation. Maybe next time make it a bit clearer...

Peat


not- at all clear

27.04.2009 09:57

It is not at-all clear what the image represents. To must people, it will look just like some scruffy graffiti - no clear message is decipherable - a real wasted opportunity. Better luck next time

redrag


I thought it was a pair of bathtaps that had been left running

27.04.2009 11:23

With something undecipherable written underneath. Nice try though.

Concerned


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27.04.2009 11:35

Someone else needs to volunteer for stencil designing duty next time! ALOT of effort goes into spraypainting 26 sites - well done to the spraypainters..

b


Legibility

27.04.2009 11:37

I could read the "Every Little Hurts" bit, but probably because that's the best way to describe Tesco's. But yes, the image in the middle needs some refining, preferably in terms of simplification.

Observer


I don't get it

27.04.2009 11:39

The imagery or the message. And i'm struggling with the general idea aswell

max


Can't read it; but that's not the point

27.04.2009 11:45

27 windows requiring heavy scrubbing will cost Tescos more than any conscious customer 'recognising the greenwash' and joining a consumer boycott will.

Boycotts don't make social change, sabotage does!!
Keep this sort of action up, maybe just brick them next time though??

To anyone who said this was pointless - you're pointless! Read up on the suffragettes history - it's all about the SABOTAGE not BOYCOTTS. Some people make me laugh! Social change isn't made by the masses, it never has been and it NEVER will be!

Why? 70-90% live entirely (to almost entirely) domesticated lifestyles. They are 'waving voters' that will never wave towards a political stance (hence domestication!) Save them too!

milit@nt
- Homepage: http://directaction.info


The Campaign Against Primate Change.

27.04.2009 11:57

The Campaign Against Primate Change.. As working class (high-primates)we are tired of hearing about Climate Change (the over consumption of the priviledged classes). From the evolution of human kind and the moment of enlightenment our Earth, our Mother, has been exploited by the caretakers of her earth.

Our evolution was an agreemenet with our Mother and our Earth to act responsibly, with love, understanding and basic kindness to all other primates along with this earth we live upon.
From our evolution we have not only failed our Earth, our Mother, but other primates and living creatures, we have become selfish, exploitative and moved away from the basic principles of Nihililism to a world of Barbarism.

This action will cost Mother Earth, from the manufacture of the paint used, i.e. spray paint, what transport was used, we doubt it was public that early in the morning, the chemicals to clean of this damage, no doubt from an underpaid cleaner.

No one but a few people will have seen this, also the image is not that clear, another classic self indulgent act for petulant children have temper tantrums, would it not have been better to have done a flyer and handed them outside said stores?

TESCO ( http://projectsheffield.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/new-tesco-for-crookes-round-2/)boss Sir Terry Leahy, above, is set to defy the credit crunch by revealing that till takings have smashed the £1 billion-a-week barrier.

It will be the first time such huge takings have been registered by a UK firm. Tesco is expected to announce on Tuesday that turnover soared from just under £52 billion to a record £54 billion last year, while profits are likely to thrust past £3 billion, also an all-time high. The milestone comes 30 years after Tesco’s revenues first topped £1 billion-a- year. Since then the company has forged ahead of Sainsbury’s to become Britain’s biggest retailer. It is also the world’s third largest shopping chain. Tesco – slogan “Every Little Helps” – has 2,115 stores and employs more than 280,000 in Britain alone. It also has 476 branches in Thailand, 301 in Poland, 137 in South Korea and 125 in Japan.

But Helen Rimmer, of the Tescopoly ( http://www.tescopoly.org/)campaign website, said: “Tesco’s growth has come at the expense of vibrant town centres, farmers and the environment.” The Campaign Against Primate Change, are as concerned about the impact of Tesco on the environment and local community,s but we ask was there any thought to this action, this form of vandalism is no better than the acts of vandalism from Tesco, think about it?

http://underclassrising.net/


oops

27.04.2009 22:18

i thought it was two tins of squirty cream blasting into space

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