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Today, local Campaigners in Norwich have put up spoof Aviva adverts covered in CCTV cameras to highlight how the insurer is underwriting the 24/7 surveillance of migrants through its contract with Serco Group

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Did you know Aviva insures the training of #ICE agents? People in Norwich have been putting up ads today, created using artwork from @misterjesseduquette and @rebeccacohen__, to call out Aviva and Serco for their complicity in migrant abuse and genocide.

Aviva is the biggest insurer of migrant detention and abuse, but in 3 months their contract is up with Serco - so now is the time to ramp up the pressure - LINK IN COMMENTS...

🔎 Insures the largest number of migrant detention & surveillance contractors, including Serco and Mears, who run all the detention centres in the UK.

🔎 Serco designed the training curriculum for US immigration enforcement (ICE) officers, and deleted every mention of ICE from its website when journalists asked about it.

🔎 Aviva insures Serco, the company at the heart of the UK's immigration detention system. Serco runs four out of seven UK detention centres, including Brook House and Yarl's Wood, houses more than 40,000 asylum seekers and runs the GPS tagging of migrants.

🔎 Serco is sustaining Israel’s g3n0cidal regime by providing critical military support. The company boasts of its work in “modernising and sustaining core weapons systems,” including naval and aerial platforms used by allied forces, among them Israel’s military.

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@avivauk you can't hide your complicity in g3nocide, migrant abuse & climate chaos, by covering it with a tarp...

Love and solidarity to the good folks of Norwich who visited Aviva's Global HQ with some more #brandalism today ❤️

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Want to stop more billboards where you live?

That's exactly what Matt and Emily from @adblocknorwich have been doing 💪

And you can, too! Adblock groups are the perfect way to stop billboards where you live, and push your local council for changes to advertising and planning policy.

If joining a group's not your thing, there's still loads of ways you can take action.

Head to our website (link in bio) to find out more.

#adblock #betterwithoutbillboards

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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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Hamburg event: Building a counter-advertising movement across Europe 
Friday 9th May 2025, 1900hrs @ Jupi Bar, Caffamacherreihe 37, Hamburg, Germany

With @hamburgwerbefrei collecting thousands of signatures for a referendum to remove digital advertising screens from the city until 13 May 2025, momentum is growing across Europe to restrict the harmful impacts of corporate advertising. Cities such as Zurich, Lyon, Grenoble and Bristol have all passed policies to reclaim public space from outdoor ads screens to improve public health, wellbeing, our climate and environment.

In doing so, they challenge the destructive logic of consumer capitalism and the growth economy; a logic that commodifies our social spaces for endless marketing opportunities – whilst extracting more resources from the earth and mental attention from our minds.

Join anti-advertising activists from France, Netherlands and the UK who have traveled to Germany to support the Hamburg Werbefrei initiative. At the event, we will discuss recent victories from across Europe and how we can create happier, healthier and more sustainable cities.

With contributions from @RAP_Asso (France), @ReclameFossielVrij (Netherlands) @AdfreeCities, @AdblockNorwich, @AdblockBristol, @badvertising11 (England)
Co-hosted with @HamburgWerbefrei

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Advertising nicotine to kids?

These massive ads have been spotted across Bristol, promoting a subsidiary of British American Tobacco.

Is this the kind of thing we want to see in our city?

The government is pushing ahead with restrictions on tobacco and vaping ads to create a smoke-free generation, as well as other kinds of harmful advertising.

But outdoor advertising remains an underregulated wild west where ads for nicotine, vapes, junk food and gambling are common, even in places children will definitely see them.

We're calling for tighter restrictions on *all* advertising. Find out more and take action now: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/better-without-billboards

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The news just gets better and better 🫡🫡

#AdsInSpace #SpaceBillboard #KatyPerry #BlueOrigin

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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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Tree axed for billboard in Norwich 😡

There was shock and anger in Norwich this week after a much loved Ash tree was felled, allegedly on the orders of Wildstone, so that they could replace three billboards.

The incident highlights the unfairness of outdoor advertising. Local residents have next to no say in whether their streets are filled with billboards, and once a billboard goes up it is almost impossible to take it down.

That's why we campaign for better, fairer planning rules that empower local voices to say no to outdoor advertising.

Find out more and take action: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/better-without-billboards

[An earlier (now deleted) version of this post mistakenly attributed the billboards and felling to Clear Channel. We now understand that Clear Channel passed ownership of the boards to Wildstone in 2020. The post has been updated to reflect this.]

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