Brilliant artist and SA pal Laura Oldfield Ford has launched a Savage Messiah blog as a space to display both new and archival writings and artworks. Laura’s stark, beautiful drawings of urban decay and social unrest combine anger and optimism in a fashion that is both disquieting and fascinating.
The council issue dispersal orders but all attempts at eviction are met by huge clashes with police. Bristol is setting up a network of alternative states linking flashpoints of contestation. Diggers communities appear across the city.
Walls in the city centre have been painted black bearing block stencils of white letters, these are the communiqués of the new communes….
Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease, and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the Earth from others, that these may beg or starve in a fruitful land; or was it made to preserve all her children?
Gerrard Winstanley The New Law of Righteousness, 1649
