Billboards Seen in Switzerland
| Above (March 2021): initiative on the ballot to prohibit full-face coverings in public places. The intitiative passed. |
| Above (Nov. 2016): Warnings about HIV infection
and how to protect against it (use condoms, of course). Similar posters in France prompted opposition, citing offence to 'public mores'; no such offence taken in Switzerland. Within my own lifetime, at least two of the acts depicted above were crimes and would be again if the Christian rightwing got its way: homosex and miscegenation (yup -- look it up). "The times, they are a changin,'" sang a recent almost-Nobel-prize recipient. |
| Above: Stop the (building of) minarets.
Europe is having a hard time accepting Islam. |
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| Above: The bank crisis hits Switzerland.
Original text: Actually, it's your money. Corrected text: It was your money. |
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| Above: anti-Aids posters.
The text reads (roughly): You wouldn't do this without protection, would you? |
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Upper poster: Hunger kills, every 30 seconds a child dies, help stop the insanity.
Lower poster: every fifth child is obese. Grafitti: stay critical. |
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Poster left: for an exhibition titled Dresscode, Dress as Utilitarian Symbol, Historical Museum, St. Gallen. |
Poster right: political campaign poster,
"Free passports for all? No!" Same party which brought out the 'no black sheep' poster. |
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Poster left: the black sheep poster is back. |
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Poster left: the no black sheep party is back. |
