Urban Prankster » arrest http://urbanprankster.com Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:20:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 James Powderly Interview http://urbanprankster.com/2008/08/james-powderly-interview/ http://urbanprankster.com/2008/08/james-powderly-interview/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:35:19 +0000 Charlie Todd http://urbanprankster.com/?p=141

Last week we told you about how our friend James Powderly was detained along with other US activists/artists in China. Thankfully they are all back home. Here’s his interview with Rocketboom where he explains how it went down.

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We’ve just learned that six US activists have been detained in China. Five Americans were detained for displaying the above banner (using 500 LED “Throwies”.) Video of the action:

In addition, our friend James Powderly of the Graffiti Research Lab has been detained now for over 24 hours after police got word of his plans to project “Free Tibet” onto Beijing buildings using his new “Green Lantern” LASER stencil. The same Green Lantern LASER was recently used in New York.

The Associated Press has the story.

We hope that everyone makes it back home safe very soon.

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