[Peace-discuss] US Embassy in Berlin Receives ‘Beamed’ Graffitti to Protest NSA Spying Activities

[David Johnson via Peace-discuss]

  US Embassy in Berlin Receives ‘Beamed’ Graffitti to Protest NSA Spying
  Activities

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July 21st, 2014
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It looks like a German artist has used a different form of “graffiti” to 
protest the NSA early this morning in Berlin. Oliver Bienkowski, a 
self-proclaimed “guerilla marketing expert”, has used a powerful 
projector mounted in a cargo van and beamed it on the US Embassy. The 
image is said to have illustrated a silly portrait of US President, 
Barack Obama, and a message: “NSA in da House”.

The United States Embassy in Berlin is said to be in a heavily 
police-patrolled area near the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate and 
due to this, the police have peacefully shut down the projection within 
minutes, according to the video below, posted online by the group of 
German artists.

It is said that this is not the first time Bienkowski used the side of a 
building to express his work and protest. Last year, he projected the 
words “United Stasi of America” on another building structure to protest 
against spying activities, having the past year not being a good one for 
US-German relations.

A series of uncovered information have pointed out the extent of NSA 
surveillance activities in Europe the past year. German Chancellor, 
Angela Merkel, had her phone under surveillance by the NSA and there are 
still concerns of widespread surveillance of internet activities which 
pass through US servers. A CIA chief in Berlin has even been expelled by 
the Germans last year as a sign of its displeasure with US spy 
activities in their country.

/Thank you The Verge 
<http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/19/5918473/german-artist-protests-nsa-with-light-graffiti-on-us-embassy-in-berlin> for 
providing us with this information/
/Videos courtesy of The Verge 
<http://www.theverge.com/2014/7/19/5918473/german-artist-protests-nsa-with-light-graffiti-on-us-embassy-in-berlin>/

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