Street Life

Between New York City bus shelters and the subway cars themselves, you’d think you were riding the corporate and not the public transportation system. Competition for the use of public space is fierce, the game is rigged and the winners are almost always corporations.

The use of public space outside of the logic of big business is discouraged, if not out right criminalized. The degradation of public space into corporate space combined with the US government’s continuing war provoked an anonymous group of artists to put a dissenting message back into the mix on New York City subway cars and privately owned SUV’s on the streets.

Terrorist Vehicle bumper stickers mark the SUV’s as a primary example of gas abuse and as one of the causes of the current wars. The SUV’s are the most direct assault on public space, an obscene example of private greed abusing the public interest and roadways spurred by the irresponsible and deadly collusion of the oil and auto corporations.


Do not bomb Iraq is one message in a series of stickers ranging from Do not fear queers to Do not build prisons.

The stickers were first thrown up in the winter of 2002 and they continue to battle with the corporate and military interests on the walls of the subway cars and on the streets of the city.

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