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Free Hackney from outdoor corporate advertising! Come to our launch event and find out how you can help block 9 new digital billboards in Hackney.

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CONSULTATION NOW CLOSED ❤️ we need your help ❤️ Call to action to our fellow adblockers and supporters! Write to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Template linked below or in our Linktree. CLOSES 10TH MARCH
The government is attempting to remove billboard rules from the National Planning Policy. We need YOUR help against this. Send your letter here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/write-to-the-ministry-of-housing-communities-local-government/ Please read the link below for the @adfreecities post.

https://adfreecities.org.uk/2026/02/government-remove-billboard-regulations-from-nppf-heres-how-we-should-stop-them/. #adfreecities #adblock #planningpolicy #government

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✨ 2nd November workshop - sign up now✨

Join us to oppose Black Friday! ✊🖤

With Black Friday 2025 approaching, billboards and digital advertising messages will go into overdrive once more promoting hyperconsumption. All of it comes at the expense of squeezed workers, and for the profits of CEO Jeff Bezos.

Join Brandalism, Fossil Free London and friends for a panel discussion and creative workshop to learn how workers, environmentalists and tax justice campaigners are organising as part of the #MakeAmazonPay coalition.

Find out how you can get involved in creative actions to stem the bombardment of consumer advertising this November.

➡️ Event details:
Turbo-Charged Consumer Capitalism and What to Do About It
Sunday 2nd November 2025, 2pm - 6pm
@ The Advocacy Academy, 2 Beehive Place, SW9 7QR, London.

➡️ Or visit https://bit.ly/turbo-capital or link in @fossilfreelondon bio

#ZAPGames2025 #BlackFriday2025

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Assemble 2pm Portland Place ✌️ #StopTrump

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Join us at @lambethcountryshow this Saturday 7th & Sunday 8th June. Amidst the medieval jousting and sheep shearing, we’ll have our Dystopian Billboard art installation and be discussing how we can halt the spread of surveillance advertising billboards to build happier, healthier neighbourhoods.

Find us in the Eco Village near the yellow Hell Bus.

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WIN in Norwich where adblockers have stopped a new digital billboard being installed in the city centre 🎉

This is the second time Wildstone has tried to put up this massive screen, and the second time they've been blocked 👏

Matt White, of Adblock Norwich, said: "It's great to see the council reject this overbearing and garish screen, reaffirming its commitment to the character of our city centre.

"To stop the constant need to address these applications one by one the government needs to update the National Planning Policy Framework, giving local authorities clearer power to restrict such advertising.

"Planning regulations for outdoor advertising should prioritise communities and the environment over corporate profit."

#OurSpaceNotAdSpace
#BetterWithoutBillboards

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We're 📢 SO EXCITED 📢 to announce that Digital Dystopia is now live at @sparksbristol!

Digital Dystopia is a visual art experience created by @adfreecities that uses reclaimed e-waste to reveal the greenwash tactics of major polluters.

Styled like a dystopian billboard, it challenges the presence and role of advertising in our public spaces. We hope to spark conversations about how we can stop greenwash advertising and reduce the number of ads on our streets.

You can see the screen in action Wednesday to Saturday during normal Sparks opening hours (11-6 / 5 on Sundays).

Visit adfreecities.org.uk for more

Or head to https://bit.ly/ban-fossil-ads to take action ✊

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🚨 OBJECTIONS NEEDED!🚨 Deadline 23rd Jan

Ad company Wildstone have applied for permission to install a humungous 40' wide digital billboard above Mountain Warehouse on Haymarket. This grotesque screen will forever alter the character of our beloved city centre....so we need to stop it, by showing significant opposition from the local community. Pls share widely! ➡️

Please email yr objections to Norwich City Council at planning@norwich.gov.uk. Be sure to include the ref 24/01483/A in your subject line.

Councils can only refuse planning permission based on SAFETY or AMENITY.

Some things you could say (always best in your own words, of course):

🌳 Amenity:

Size of the proposed screen - much larger than all other ads in the vicinity - means it is entirely out of keeping with the area, and would dominate the street scene.

Installation would have a drastic negative impact on views of the attractive historic buildings in Haymarket, trees on both Haymarket and Brigg Street, & of the new public open space in Haymarket.

This is set to be the first large digital advertising screen in the pedestrianised city centre. If approved, the screen's existence would be used to justify more large screens in the city centre: the cumulative impact would completely change the look and feel of our city. Norwich risks losing much of its unique charm and becoming more a clone town haven for advertisers.

⚠️ Safety

Haymarket can be very busy with pedestrians, cyclists, and scooters: screens of this nature are very distracting and are likely to increase collisions between various users of the space.

Thank you! 🙏
SEE LINK IN BIO FOR FULL GUIDE TO OBJECTING!.

#adfree #adfreecities #artnotads #publicspacre #streetsforpeople #livingstreets

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ZAP Games 2024: Round V, is done!

Outside Belgum (where it originated and @bruxellessanspub held their own awards) around 27 actions took place, from Sydney Australia to Bristol UK, and San Fransisco to Paris.

WInners were awarded their trophies at a glamorous London awards ceremony on the 30th, and they are:

🏅Most Beautiful: @feccia_illustre
🏅BIG: @climaximopt & @b0rdalo_ii
🏅Sculpture: @mattfirthart
🏅Digital Screens: Asterix & Obelix
🏅Greatest Number of Panels: @alternatibarennes
🏅Political Detournement: @adblockhackney
🏅Family Friendly: @adblockbristol
🏅Surprise! @darren__cullen

Entries were incredibly veried, and all worthy of acclaim, but some really stood out.
Climaximo managing to hack several massive digiatal screens impressed everyone in the room, and had us all wanting to go bigger.
@feccia_illustre 's beautiful decolage pieces wowed the crowds and left us inspired.
@mattfirthart 's Ad-adaptors have us allwaiting for the plans to be released- lets abstract them all!

FOr more inspiration and morivation for your own actions (we don't need awards to do stuff, right?), you can see all the entries and more pictures of them all over at subvertisers-international.net and it's well worth a look. And then we'll all have upped our game in time for ZAP Games 2025.

#ZAPGames2024 #subvertising #blackfriday

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@adblockhackney removed "a Christmas ad from climate wrecking company McDonalds, subject to a Palestine solidarity boycott, activists from Adblock Hackney expressed all they want for Christmas: an end to genocide & ecocide."

This followed a petition from local residents to local authority asking them remove connections to Elbit systems and Haifa. Joined up actions make them all the more powerful.

#ZAPGames2024

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I know some of us have quite short attention spans, and there’s also so much to look at, so I’ve made this experimental micro-trailer for @RevBillyTalen and the @StopShopping_Choir’s Fabulous Unknown tour, which kicks off this weekend, visiting @StablesTheatre Hastings, @AttenboroughCtr Brighton, @TheGulbenkian Canterbury, @ColchArtsCentre Colchester, @CambridgeJunction, @NGMeetingHouse London (second show added due to exceptional demand!), and @Mac_Birmingham.
Get your tickets at the link in my bio, now!
#💒🌎📣
#FabulousUnknown
#ReverendBilly
#StopShoppingChoir
#StopShoppingChoirUK
#Earthalujah!

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The time is now!

We need to put pressure on our government at this crucial time to show we don’t want the expansion of an airport built for the wealthy and businessmen, to cater for luxury weekend shopping trip flights to London!

There is a real chance for a win here, so that’s why Fossil Free London are organising this demonstration and we want you to be there!

Join us on 27th July 10am outside the Dept for Transport, central London. Sign up via link in bio

We’ll be there leafletting on weekday mornings before the protest so staff hear our objections

#LondonCityAiport #LondonProtest #TheyFlyWeChoke #LondonAirPollution #StopAirportExpansion

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We love to see this billboard removal in Hackney 😍

Taking away corporate advertising frees up space for art. nature and community 🌳

Want to see more of this? Head to our website to get involved and challenge outdoor advertising where you live.

#BetterWithoutBillboards #AdsAddNothing #AdfreeCities #PublicSpace #London #Hackney

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