Soft Yellow:

isnt that also racist

.so all they really did was ensure they were still in the running for a print after people who were not in the initial 170 jumped in from nowhere at all points of the night.

I think I have been shifted into another dimension

Earlier people were talking about what a nightmare things were at Berwick Street and POW some very sad and scary stories of people doing everything right but being cheated by bad planning on POW's part and thuggery of others

Now everything seems to have changed It was all ok, coz after all the fights and and queue jumping the righteous people fought their way to the front and stole the prints from under the noses of the flippers! I'm sure Banksy is proud of you Congratulations

I feel sick

Banksy pledges £80,000 to Russian radical art group Voina

guardian.co.uk, Sunday 12 December 2010 17.44 GMT

Proceeds of Banksy print sale will go to Voina collective, two of whom are awaiting trial over anti-corruption protest





Voina's exploits have included throwing cats at McDonald's workers 'to alleviate their boredom'. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Oleg Vorotnikov, 35, and Leonid Nikolayev, 27, were detained in Moscow last month and charged in connection with an anti-corruption protest called Palace Revolution in St Petersburg in September, when members of Voina overturned several police cars in the centre of the city. They could face up to seven years in prison.

Police claim the group caused thousands of pounds worth of damage, but Russia's tight-knit art community has called for their release, saying the charges are excessive.

Voina has directed many of its actions at state officials and politicians, saying they are part of a war for the "destruction of outdated repressive-patriarchal socio-political symbols and ideologies".

Alexei Plutser-Sarno, Voina's chief ideologue, told the Guardian that Banksy had contacted the group after hearing about the imprisoned pair. "We're very grateful for his support," he said. "Banksy's help will attract the attention of the whole world to the personal repression aimed at us, as well as to the greater problem of liquidation of democracy in Russia."

Plutser-Sarno fled from Russia to Estonia last month, claiming he had information that police were about to arrest him. He claimed that Vorotnikov and Nikolayev had plastic bags placed over their heads when they were arrested and police kicked them in the head and kidneys as they lay on the floor of a vehicle.

Voina carried out one of its most scandalous acts in June when members painted a 65-metre erect p***s on a drawbridge in St Petersburg. When raised, the decoration faced the city headquarters of the FSB, the federal security service.

Two years ago, members of Voina staged an orgy in Moscow's state biological museum under a banner reading "f**k for the heir, Little Bear". Dmitry Medvedev, now Russian president, whose surname comes from the Russian word for bear, was to stand in elections a few days later and was widely seen as the anointed successor of Vladimir Putin, now prime minister.

In other exploits, Voina members have thrown cats at McDonald's workers to "alleviate their boredom" and staged mock hangings of homosexuals in criticism of remarks made by Moscow's former mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, that gay pride marches were "satanic".

Banksy, who could not be reached for comment, may feel that Voina's mischievous and politically cutting street art chimes with his own efforts, such as hanging spoof masters at Tate Britain and painting graffiti on the West Bank separation wall.

"Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place," he once wrote. "Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place."

www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/12/banksy-russia-voina-donation

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THESE RUSSIAN GUYS ARE SCUM. ANY MAN WHO DOES THAT TO ANIMALS DOES NOT DESERVE CHARITY OF ANY SORT.

turf war was a rip off of another artist that did it for real on a statue in westminster

Banksy no?

Not really, more like a great statement that art can inpower the disadvantaged; that they don't have to rock a stupid staff, they can paint, rap, sing, write, direct... create!! Art can lift them from there anti social surroundings. The welfare state and funding for the arts are being violently slashed by cabal of multi-millionaires, this will in turn breed more anti social behavior, more alienation and more dumbos with dogs.

Choose your weapon...

Agree that Voina's comedy cock was funny - although not particularly original. But animal cruelty just shows ignorance.

They are Russians. They still think racism in football is acceptable.

They are Russians. They still think racism in football is acceptable.