<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">
</span></span><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3110" title="lof2" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/lof2-212x300.jpg" alt="" width="212" height="300" /><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px;">The brilliant artist and SA pal Laura Oldfield Ford has launched a <a href="http://lauraoldfieldford.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Savage Messiah</a> blog as a space to display both new and archival writing and images. </span>Laura's stark, beautiful drawings of urban decay and social unrest combine anger and optimism in a fashion that is both disquieting and fascinating.

<em>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.</em>

<em>Walls in the city centre have been painted black bearing block stencils of white letters, these are the communiqués of the new communes….</em>

<em>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?</em>

Gerrard Winstanley <em>The New Law of Righteousness</em>, 1649