This morning we woke up at 5:30 to an awesome song Alela Diane's "The Pirates Gospel". We then went off to block the Brussels ring road, and put in some environmentally inspired theatre in protest to the plans to add another lane to the road.
It went fantastically, no hiccups and most people hardly noticed we were there - except when they (and particularly the intended audience) saw it later on the news. Greenpeace Belgium captured some of it, check it out on their website in Dutch or in French.
2 comments:
Hi Glen,
Looks fantastic but can you explain what is happening and what the pictures mean. It seems like the tapyt was put down on an unused section of the road and the pictures are of cars and lorries. I dont understand the message. I would have thought you were trying to show how you could save space on the ring road without increasing the number of lanes. Please enlighten!
There were pictures of trucks in the left hand lane, and cars in the other two lanes. Some of the signs were flipped, so it showed a truck with an arrow to a ship (more transport of goods on barges), a car with an arrow to a train (more public transport) and a car with an arrow to a car with 3 people in (instead of 1) - more car pooling, and then another lane was added for bikes - more bikes.
So looking at promoting other forms of transport instead of just enlarging the current road to take more cars...
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