Video : Talibanksy Tags Dollar Signs and Poppies Around Kabul
As M.I.A.’s Paper Planes – a song about hustling as a form of survival in a hostile environment – plays in the background Talibanksy uses guerilla street art to point out the harvesting and trafficking of Opium is funding militants in Afghanistan while bewildered Afghans look on. Amazing.
How much, states the video’s title slide as the audience wonders what he? they? maybe referring to? How much money is being made to fund the militants off of the Opium trade? How much longer will the world allow the Afghans to suffer at the hands of militants who are funded by this drug trade? How much more clear must the connections be made before people start to take a stand?
The video and Talibanksy’s work ask all of this and more:
Chand Ast from Talibanksy on Vimeo.