Last September, he travelled to England to testify on behalf of anti-coal activists who were arrested while climbing the smokestack of a power station to spray-paint a message to the Prime Minister.
Someone posted threatening signs on trees and painted a message with a derogatory term on their front sign.
As the captive thrashed to get away, the activists pounded his shoulders, flipped him around and spray-painted a message on his back: "I'm a harasser".
Near the Hollywood sign, someone has painted a message on the ground, aimed up at the helicopters, reading "Tourists go away".
In June, she painted a message on the wall outside her office that read: "This is private property and the destruction of this house violates the Constitution, and the European Convention on Human Rights".
A FEW years ago, a long-haired, bearded Montauk fisherman who goes by Bo-Bo spray-painted a message across his battered pickup truck: "Tourons, Go Home!" The large letters merged "tourist" and "moron" into one very unambiguous statement.
He painted a message of peace and beauty over all the death and destruction, organised several artistic campaigns and invited people to join him in the streets, letting the damaged city walls speak up for the people of Sana'a.
Mr. Wilson has also become friendly with the workers in the discount general store that replaced the Woolworth's, and he recently painted a message of love on behalf of Syed Miah, a cashier there who had had a fight with his girlfriend.
Next to their prey this morning - left at the city's busiest highway intersection just as the factory shifts were about to change - the executioners, or sicarios, had hung a sheet on which they had painted a message: Yo Lazaro Flores, apuyo a mi patron, el monta perros - I, Lazaro Flores, served my boss, the dog fucker.
Business is plenty aware, and, with a few exceptions (such as Koch Industries), doesn't need Greenpeace on the roof — the group painted a message across the top of HP's Palo Alto headquarters in 2009 — to get the message.
