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San Francisco protests against Wikileaks

— By Eric Gregory (@mrericsir) |

While silver-haired Wikileaks editor and James Bond villian standin Julian Assange remains a polarizing figure in both global and domestic politics, the era of the “Arab Spring” has cast Mr. Assange's beliefs in openness at all costs in a more generous light.  That isn't to say he's without detractors; one of which is this sign on 16th St., which calls for an end to Julian Assange.

Personally, I don't condone violenent rhetoric, and would like to call on The City and County of San Francisco to please remove this sign and replace it with a gentler message.

More WikiLeaks Street Art Going Up on Valencia

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

This is easily one of the smartest wheatpastings I've seen on Valencia in some time.  “Sandwich” took stills from the leaked video of two Reuter's staffers and numerous other unarmed civilians being murdered (commonly named “Collateral Murder”) and overlaid gameplay from Halo 2 on top of them.  Surely a commentary on the soldiers featured in the video, whose impatience while waiting for orders to open fire displayed an utter contempt for human life, as well as modern warfare in general.

As this is Sandwich's second piece of street art to go up this month, it looks like we have a new political street artist roaming around the Mission who is quickly upstaging the more imfamous figures out there.

Previously on Uptown Almanac: