Tag Billionaires

FREE THE PRESS – EXTINCTION REBELLION

I’m happy that Extinction Rebellion have used my ‘Don’t Believe Everything Billionaires Tell You’ image as part of a their #FreeThePress campaign. It’s an uphill struggle to convince the public of the urgency of the climate crisis with the media consolidated in the hands of handful of billionaires who’s interests are best served by our continued reliance on fossil fuels. Extinction Rebellion’s blockade of Rupert Murdoch’s printing presses last year was one of their most impressive and effective actions to date. Prints, t-shirts, stickers and postcards of the original artwork are available from my shop.

READ MOREFREE THE PRESS – EXTINCTION REBELLION

OMNI-YACHT

The 26 richest individuals have hoarded more wealth than the poorest 3.5 billion people on the planet. When we talk about building a sustainable economy we usually mean environmental sustainability, but exponentially increasing inequality is also fundamentally unsustainable. ⁠ ⁠ “As I like to say to my American hedge fund friends, the Hamptons is not a defensible position. The Hamptons is a very rich area on Long Island that lie along low-lying beaches. Very hard to defend a low-lying beach. Eventually people will come for you.” – Mark Blyth

READ MOREOMNI-YACHT

FREE PRESS

If I were a billionaire I would simply buy a newspaper to control the narrative over how much tax I should pay. Printable versions of this available for free download along with my GE2017 anti-Tory posters: toriesout.co.uk More coming soon! Register to vote: gov.uk/register-to-voteRegister for a postal vote: gov.uk/government/publications/apply-for-a-postal-voteJoin The Labour Party: labour.org.uk mycampaignmap.com will help you find campaigning events in the marginal seat that needs you most. #News #Billionaires #Class

READ MOREFREE PRESS

DISCARD AFTER SINGLE-USE

Here’s a surfboard I painted for Project 0‘s art auction to raise money for mangrove restoration in the Caribbean. You can bid here. Unfortunately I had to pull out of the launch exhibition for the auction as I only found out last minute the show was sponsored by Sky TV. I’m against all attempts at corporate greenwashing because it promotes the idea that consuming one brand over another can save the planet and that corporations care about these issues when they don’t. But its the involvement of Sky in particular which is really galling as the company is part-owned (and soon to be fully-owned) by Rupert Murdoch, who uses his TV channels and newspapers to push climate-change denial and anti-renewable energy propaganda worldwide.

READ MOREDISCARD AFTER SINGLE-USE

BAT PERSON

If you’d like this on your wall I’m doing this as a print to help fund my addiction to food. Also, this Saturday I’ll be at ELCAF with some comics on the Small Press Table. I’ll be pottering about trying not to spend my rent money and attempting to bump into living flesh-god Chris Ware, who designed all the delicious promo material which you can see on their website. Then on the 20th June I have work in an exhibition in Cardiff called Solve Et Coagula at The Alchemists Gallery, The Abacus, St. Davids House, Wood Street, Cardiff, CF10 1ER.

READ MOREBAT PERSON