Someone has written ‘Freedom’ next to the blackbird that feeds on the garbage cans in College Street Mews. As can be seen below, the bird is next to Don’t Drone Me, Bro.
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Stencil and graffiti in College Street (in the city centre; the Fountain Centre is visible in the background): “Don’t drone me, bro.” over a stencil of U.S. president Barack Obama. This image was taken the day the leader of the Pakistani Taliban was killed by a U.S. drone (Guardian). The Obama administration has launched six times more drone strikes in Pakistan than the Bush administration (WP). For the original phrase ‘Don’t tase me, bro’, see knowyourmeme.
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Graffiti next to a mural commemorating various battles of WWI reads “Prejudice is all in your head!” The Young Citizen Volunteers (YCV) were formed in 1912 and in 1914 became a battalion of the UVF.
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Graffiti on the Forthriver Road, in Glencairn: “RIP Maggie Thatcher. True Legend. The Iron Lady.” Beneath a banner reading “Glencairn demands civil rights for all Protestants now!”
Previously: Various anti-Thatcher graffiti
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Graffiti at the corner of Lawnbrook Avenue and the Shankill Road: Policing Supporting Nationalists Interests (rather than: Police Service of Northern Ireland).
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The artist’s name is on the track-suit top where a logo might typically be: work by NOTA (of TMN – The Most Nasty) in Garfield Street.
Previously: The Sun Will Make You Blind
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Culture Night work by This Is Filth (Fb) in North Street: “Read More”.
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Graffiti on the Lower Lisburn Road – “No matter what the name/We’re all the same/Pieces in one big chess game” – Chuck D of Public Enemy, from the song “Rebel Without a Pause” on their 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (full lyrics).
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UDA graffiti on the shutters of a dilapidated building at the top (southern) end of Sandy Row.
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Three tags and a butcher vigorously chopping pink sausages, on the back of buildings in Gresham Street, visible from North Street, the work of NOTA (‘none of the above’), Bore, and Raser.
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