Football’s dodgy banks

14 May 2021

Dodgy banks out of football: Standard Chartered Bank’s fossil fuel investments exposed on Liverpool billboards May 2021 Over 50 posters and billboards appeared across Liverpool, critiquing Standard Chartered’s continued financing of destructive fossil fuel projects in South-East Asia The bank has provided over £23bn to fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement, and is continuing to finance controversial mining company Adaro Standard Chartered are one of the UK banks criticised in a new report on the City of London’s…

27.11.2023

‘ZAP’ is french for Zone Anti-Publicité / Anti-Advertising Zone. It is two weeks of affinity groups actions against Black Friday consumerism and the advertising industry.

Brandalism crews have taken over ad-spaces across Europe this week with spoof ads demanding an end to airline advertising over the outsized climate impacts of aviation. Adverts in over 30 towns and cities, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Lisbon, Geneva, Paris and London have been replaced or modified to highlight the role of advertising in the growing emissions from airlines. The ad-hack actions are part of wider movement to pressure local legislators to ban advertising and sponsorships by airlines and airports, highlighting…

Brandalism crews have hijacked advertising spaces in Wimbledon, south London, to protest the tennis tournament’s endorsement of Barclays via a lucrative new sponsorship deal. As the tennis tournament celebrated its dubious “Environment Day”, activists replaced corporate ads on streets surrounding the tournament with satirical artworks stating: “Barclays sponsors Wimbledon and Fossil Fuels”. The spoof ad, by artist Klarissa Katz, shows Barclays shaking hands with death – dressed up as a corporate executive at Shell. Barclays is one of the world’…

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