An Aspiring Nation

Analysis / Interpretation / Press / Source

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If this city of ours speaks to some kind of a global trend, then it is the flex-age and they are achatter with politically neutered posters, mostly advertisements — de-addiction cures, massage parlours, termite control, announcements of visiting swamis. What survives of the political messaging has migrated to the virtual world.

It is against this backdrop that you might want to visit the PPPA website.

The website is constantly shuffled, the collection routinely updated. Many of the 2023 posters have to do with events organised in solidarity with Palestine — a benefit for the Palestine Children’s Fund, a night of live music in solidarity, drive in donations — in the US, Canada, the UAE. Initiatives by the “indigenous contingent”, queers, artworks by Nicaraguan printmakers, Palestinian artists, an Irish Socialist Republican organisation, to name a few.

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