Street artist self-portrait? In a Rome Squat

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I was filming at this squat earlier this year. It is gigantic in terms of size and you could use up a lot of space on your camera's card snapping the various bits of graffiti and street art. Incredible place.

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Pace tra gli oppressi Guerra agli oppressori

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"Peace among the oppressed War to the oppressors." This is another shot from the Rome squat I have featured before HERE. There are a lot of political stencils in Rome. In this case it is a straightforward hand written slogan.

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Squat in Rome

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Huge bleeding eyes. Another shot from a squat in Rome occupied by migrants from Bangladesh, Latin America and Europe. Here is an internal picture of the squat here.

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Stunning colours in a Rome squat

This is one of the large rooms in a squat in Rome occupied by migrants from Bangladesh, Latin America and other places.  Here is another image from the same squat.

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Rome Squat

 A squat in Rome occupied by migrants from Bangladesh, Europe and Latin America.

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Masturbating Hitler and other questions about Tommy Weissbecker Haus, Berlin.

     

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Last year I went to see a band in Berlin. And whilst walking around in Kreuzberg, I spotted this amazing mural on this four storey squat. Named in honour of a Baader Meinhof gang member who died in a police shoot out, this place has been a squat since the 1970s. It was first used by a commercial company to house migrant workers. It then got occupied by homeless people. You can get a flavour of the fascinating history here. What I want to know is

  • How long has this mural been up there?
  • Who was/were the artists behind it?
  • What the hell is the masturbating military figure - Hitler? - all about?
  • How come it never changes?
  • How often is it maintained?
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From a squat in Rome

 

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