Vivienne Westwood suspended herself 10 feet in the air outside a criminal court in London
suspended herself in a bird cage 10 feet in the air outside of a criminal court. Wearing a canary yellow suit, she was protesting’s potential extradition from Britain to the United States, where he’s been charged with conspiracy to hack government computers and espionage. “I am the canary in the coal mine,” she yelled,Through a megaphone she continued to a crowd of cheering protesters: “If I die down the coal mine from poisonous gas, then that’s the signal.
As the paper points out, outside of Westwood’s storied connections to London’s punk music and fashion, she’s staged other such imaginative protests in the past. In 2015, she drove a tank to, Westwood distributed “I am Julian Assange” T-shirts at her spring 2013 runway show at London’s Ecuadorean embassy, where Assange was sheltering at the time.
In this case Westwood drew an equivalence between Assange and a canary: “I am Julian Assange,” read the sign below her. The BBC that she said, “If the canary died, [miners] all got out. Julian Assange is in a cage, and he needs to get out. Don’t extradite to America.”
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