Earth First! Action Update
Archive of the Earth First! Action Update – the newsletter of the UK EF! network 1991-2012
EFAU 36 - February 1997Back to list of articles in this issue

Money Defacement League

The Money Defacement League that was bom at the Big Green Gathering has been catching peoples imaginations throughout the country. For anyone that is new to this revolutionary group their idea is to write subversive messages on all bank notes that make their way, however briefly, through our grubby little hands. According to a letter that the Action Update has received Cambridge in particular has become a hotbed for this kind of activity and, if the information we have received is correct, it now looks like Norwich may will be next, with somebody having graffitied so many notes there they are starting to be handed them back in shops they have never been in before! Messages seen on notes floating around the country include ‘Abolish wage labour!’, ‘If time itself is the agent of our captivity we really do have to kill time to be free don’t we?, and ‘I resent a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have’. We have also heard of a merchant banker regularly indulging in this fun pastime. We have not heard of any improved notes being rejected as of yet, so let your imagination and pens run wild!