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West Belfast Waiting For A Home

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Here is another PPR/#buildhomesnow stencil on the issue of affordable housing in Belfast. The sites suggested in this piece are the old Mackies factory off the Springfield Road (demolished in 2003) and Glenmonagh (west of the Monagh by-pass).

For the suggestion of Hillview as a site, see Homes!!! and Lidl On Equality. For a fuller list of sites, see Build Homes Now. See also Equality Can’t Wait

Replaces the COYBIG mural for Euro 2016.

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Saidie Patterson

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A “blue plaque” has been erected on the front of the Shankill Methodist church (on the Shankill at Berlin Street) to Saidie Patterson “trade unionist and peace activist”. In 1940 she led a seven-week strike to improve conditions and pay in Ewart’s linen mill on the Crumlin Road, where she had been working since age 14. As noted on the plaque, she was the first winner of the World Methodist Peace Prize (in 1977) – Allan McCullough has a photo of Patterson with her medal (the one in the middle). The plaque was unveiled on International Women’s Day 2018. (Irish News | Bel Tel | BBC-NI)

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Kill Your Speed

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A message from the students at Glenwood Primary School: “Kill your speed, not a child. Look at the road, not your phone.” With support from the Greater Shankill A[ction for] C[omunity] T[ransformation] Initiative (Fb). Although these are boards, they have been printed to look as though they are on brick. BelfastLive has a gallery of images from the 2016 launch.

Shankill Road at the top of Lanark Way.

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Action Against Drugs

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Action Against Drugs (AAD) is a anti-drugs organisation of former IRA members and perhaps using IRA weapons. The ‘recruitment’ graffiti and warning to drug-dealers shown above is at the junction of Albert Street and Divis Street in west Belfast.

For more in the graffiti war against dealers, see 2017’s U’ll Do Nottin! and 2018’s Drug Dealers Will Be Shot.

For the mental health board, see Keep Ahead With Your Mental Health.

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Global Commodity

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This mural of two children in chains being led by an officer in riot gear is another ‘1000 Words’ work and a companion piece to Chuckle Babies/No Walls on the other side of the Imagine mural between the security gates on Northumberland Street. See also see also Fearfully And Wonderfully Made.

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