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Richard Reynolds is not a radical. With his mild mannered Britishisms and unassuming style, one wouldn’t take him for a law-breaker. And to him this is all for the better. As a leading guerrilla gardener, he’s been spreading the gospel, planting seeds and saplings around his native South London, and networking diverse compatriots into a united global front. But don’t think for a moment that his project is an explicitly political one. He simply sets out to “fight the filth with forks and flowers.”

On Guerrilla Gardening is Reynolds’ new book, already on shelves in the UK, and available stateside May 31. Given the author’s dedication to the subject, one would expect a polemic, something apocryphal and stirring - the “Our Bodies, Our Selves” of guerrilla gardening. Reynolds, however, intentionally and neatly avoids this, depoliticizing the subject in favor of casting the net far and wide. Whoever you are, whatever your motivations, you can be a guerrilla gardener.

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Updated: Attention Boston folk - this Sunday evening on June 15th, from 4:00-5:30 PM, we’ll gather with Platform2 and company to Parade for the Future!

Let’s celebrate what hasn’t happened yet, notably the impending submergence of our city under water due to climate change.

Participants dressed all in blue, the parade will proceed along the flood line of the neighborhood, tracing a worst-case scenario future geography from the year 2108. Amidst this giant blue wave, climate change activists are encouraged to distribute literature. All are encouraged to participate - just wear blue and bring friends!

There will be scuba divers and sharks and seaweed. There will be music and swimming!

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Piracy, subversion, guerrilla activism, parody, and liberation! What more could you ask of designers? The artist collective Are You Generic aspires to meet those goals, fusing the cry of protest with aesthetic graphic design and replacing the major brands with rallying statements of assertion.

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Roll up, roll up - ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, friends and foes - welcome to the unparalleled, the unexpected, the perfectly paradoxical, the grotesquely beautiful, the new-fangled world of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA).

This self-described “obscene body of deviant soldiers” has an inspiring manifesto, the essence of which is launching an absurd war on absurd war - because what else can a person be in a foolish world, other than a clown, and how better to undermine authority than by mocking it?

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