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Now playing Next Art Banksy designs t-shirts to help Bristol's Colston statue defendants The world-famous street artist sold the design in stores across the city for £25 each to raise money for the four protestors charged with criminal damage over the disposal of a slave trader statue during a Black Lives Matter march. 13/12/2021
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