“Old policies! Old values! No future!” - 2002 via State Library of Victoria

Howard Government refers to Australian Federal Government. They were re-elected.

They introduced several policies such as removing student union fees (that supported a whole raft of services such as counsellors, advocacy for students etc as well as social events) while massively increasing university fees, and making universities more reliant on business for funding.

(Source: maybestreet)

Orange octopus is “The Wave” protest in West London, 5th Dec 2009. (Photo by Paul and Edith/bitospud)

There are no obvious slogans on the octopus (or in other photos of it), and given the context of an environmental protest: the octopus is just an octopus (can you hear me cheering?).

“contra el fascismo y el un frente unico” (against fascism and a united front).

Lot of symbology: octopus holding barrel of oil and, corn cob. Hands holding: tools, books, sickle.

Similar imagery to the SOA Watch Skulltopus, in the people versus the monster state/corporations.

FPR is the Frente Popular Revolucionario

Image source: FPR ‘Galeria De Carteles’ (Accessed: 15th Feb 2010)

Protest poster from Frente Popular Revolucionario (FPR), Oaxacca, Mexico (circa 2008). Protesting against exorbitantly priced bus tickets.

The text reads: ‘The bus company octopus has stolen my money! Organize and fight for a fair rate.’

Image Source: Ed Gillespie (7th Jan 2010), Slow Travel: How to buy cheap UK train tickets… (Accessed: 15 Feb 2010)

Translation from: Slow Travel and Google Translate.

Five-armed octopus, with Pentagon as its head, holding gold, oil and missile. ‘Pentagon Tentacles of Power’ by David Dees (circa 2006-2009).

“Datenkrake: A German term to describe companies or institutions that gather or rather rake in massive amounts of private data, like an octopus (Krake) with its many arms. “ (via Cornelius Bartke, Sept 2007)

I just thought this was kind of cool.