Street Art for the Capitol Climate Action

One of the things I love about digital image sharing sites is you never know where your photos are going to show up. In the spring of 2007 a few friends and I planned a Boston protest against big banks which were funding new dirty coal power plants. As part of that demonstration I made a few caution signs that said “Dirty Power Kills Communities” and we had participants dress in hazmat suits complete with masks and goggles. I took a set of photos at that action and put them on flickr and smugmug (at the time one even ended up on the Washington Post blog). This week, two years later, another of those images has shown painted on a wall in DC. as part of a street art campaign for another protest against coal power plants.

It a mass civil disobedience planned for March 2nd called the Capitol Climate Action. On that day thousands of people will descend on the Capitol Power Plant (which powers Congress with dirty energy) to demand a new clean energy economy based on solar and wind power. I have no idea who did this street art but I’m glad one of my photos is playing a small part in this action – plus its cool to see it painted larger than life on the side of a building.