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‘Send them to Mars’: Led By Donkeys Glastonbury exhibit takes aim at Musk


Campaign group say piece responds to tech billionaires’ ‘dangerous’ mission to make humans interplanetary

Next to the rocket installation is a Tesla with the licence plate “fascism” recently crushed by the 98-year-old second world war veteran Ken Turner in a tank; a giant shipping container adorned with the Block9 logo is now placed upon the decimated electric vehicle. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianSpeaking to the Guardian, the Led By Donkeys collective – Ben Stewart, James Sadri, Oliver Knowles and Will Rose – explained the thinking behind their latest work: “Elon Musk and the tech bros say they want humans to become an interplanetary species. Among its most well-known action was the lowering of a remote-controlled banner reading: “I crashed the economy” behind Liz Truss in the middle of an onstage talk voicing her support for Trump’s re-election, prompting the short-lived former PM to leave.

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