Work is on-going today (August 6th) on a two-panel mural on the International Wall on Divis Street protesting the US occupation of Iraq. Originally, the given reason for “Operation Iraqi Freedom” (not “liberation” as that would have yielded “OIL”) was the hunt for “weapons of mass destruction” but that search was suspended in January.
On the left, George W. Bush sucks down Iraqi oil (and black bubbles with dollar-signs come out of his ears). On the right, Iraq lies in rubble and bones, conquered by a tattered US flag. (According to the artists, the frame on the right reproduces/is based on a magazine cover during the Viet Nam war.) The “British Support Hook” is yet to be added in the strip in the middle between the main panels.
The mural to the left is Cherish The Children; to the right is Castilla Nacion. Later in this location: the left third became Raıdıó Fáılte, then the Local Volunteers; middle and right thirds, Falls Curfew.
The finished product … August 7th:
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