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Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts) Tue Jun 25, 2019, 06:30 AM Jun 2019

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Activist artists alter billboard near San Francisco to deliver anti-ICE message

EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- Under the cover of darkness, a group of Bay Area artists have altered a massive billboard on one the region's busiest stretches of highway, CBS San Francisco reports. The billboard is delivering a condemnation of President Trump's immigration policies.

The billboard once read: "We make junk disappear" -- an advertisement for a junk removal firm.

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Activist artists alter billboard near San Francisco to deliver anti-ICE message (Original Post) Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2019 OP

Good for them! pazzyanne Jun 2019 #1

Not too happy about defacing a company's efhmc Jun 2019 #2

If that was my business, I would let it stay. Best publicity you could get. RainCaster Jun 2019 #4

Vandalism not a good way to make your point, rent your own billboard! Nt USALiberal Jun 2019 #3

pazzyanne

(6,556 posts)

1. Good for them!

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2019, 08:21 AM

Jun 2019

It is the truth.

efhmc

(14,731 posts)

2. Not too happy about defacing a company's

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2019, 08:31 AM

Jun 2019

paid for advertising even if the new message is right on the money.

RainCaster

(10,908 posts)

4. If that was my business, I would let it stay. Best publicity you could get.

Reply to efhmc (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 25, 2019, 09:18 AM

Jun 2019

This billboard now has national exposure, which they never had before.

USALiberal

(10,877 posts)

3. Vandalism not a good way to make your point, rent your own billboard! Nt

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2019, 09:17 AM

Jun 2019

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