NEWS: April 2012
New Publications and Clippings sections updated with additional documents look for NEW items. Plus, the Gallery has been updated with more of our 'Greatest Hits'
NOT A GROUP - A MOVEMENTA lot of paint has sprayed from the can since the inception of BUGA-UP in October 1979. Since then the number of graffitists actively involved in BUGA-UP grew from three people working in the inner city of Sydney to people working across Australia, and across the world! People from 8 to 71 years old were active in BUGA-UP. These included entire families - carpenters, domestic and health workers, graphic artists, hairdressers, taxi-drivers, a wrestler, journalists, students, pensioners, research and metal workers, kindergarten teachers, technicians, public servants, unionists and clergy - to name but a few! Originally the BUGA-UP campaign was broadly aimed at all unhealthy billboard advertisements. However, in response to public opinion we soon focussed our attention on tobacco & alcohol promotions and other promotions that were socially and visually assaulting. This site is dedicated to the activistes who have not only risked arrest, but injury through fence-jumping, scaffold-climbing, dog-chasing and the dreaded spray-back on those cold windy nights. The Billbored Newsletters - 1982-1985 in the Publications section provide a chronological documentation of many BUGA-UP activities, and provide a good historical record of the movement. The essay Civil Disobedience and Tobacco Control: The Case of BUGA-UP by Simon Chapman [PDF 2,612 KB] provides some additional information about the history of BUGA-UP. Updated 7 May 2012 |