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Added 10/22/03
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A clear coating designed to repel urban art is defacing the red brick walls of the suburban high school it was supposed to protect
A menace to society
Banksy
Bergen Gives Green Light to Scandinavia
Blunkett hails
Celebrities including Jamie Oliver
Chain gang work plan for minor criminals JASON BEATTIE CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
City gears up for graffiti
City of Sydney Approves Graffiti Clean Up
Council kits to quit graffiti October 19
Council orders vandals to paint over graffiti
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Family distraught over police raid
Former Ranchester employee drops lawsuit
Former Wilkinsburg artist found slain
Former Wilkinsburg artist found slain
Four arrested for graffiti on Cambridge high school by Kevin Rothstein Tuesday
GETTING aerosol paint cans is not as easy as it was
Graffiti activist cost cops spray
Graffiti artist makes mark on Yokohama trains
Graffiti artist stages exhibition
Graffiti bridge
Graffiti defaces info panels along trade center wall 7
Graffiti gang mars train cars
Graffiti offenders escape
Graffiti vandals have defaced mailboxes and storefronts in the District with paint and an unremovable etching chemical on windows
Graffiti vandals strike in area
Graffiti writer struck and killed by train
Heights mural project fights paint with paint
Here
Hidden camera to guard ancient art
Historic Noblesville train hit by graffiti
How Does Graffiti
In an effort to remove existing graffiti and cut short the thrill for the artists
Jewish cemetery
Judge Calls Vandalism Suspects
Lawrence Walsh
Man struck
Metro Clackamas News
Neigborhood Resources - Graffiti Removal Programs
New Rochelle
October 19
Orlando a growing
Painter spotted at
Pasco erases writing on the wall
Plea to graffiti artists in hunt for knife attacker
Republican Councilman
Residents
Residents get lessons in cleaning up graffiti Kris Wise
Richland
Spray it
Stone engraving vandalized at Hiroshima A
Taggers Torment District Businesses
Tagging along for fame 31
Teens due in court on school graffiti charges By Allison Morgan
Thousands of people from around the country
TRACKING
Tucson struggles to fight growing graffiti scourge
VALLETTA
Vandals damage Hogwarts Express
Vandals leave graffiti in Suffolk neighborhoods
Vandals paint man
Vote on spray
washingtonpost
Watermelonist surrenders
WATERVILLE
When the film was developed the photographs showed the face of at least one suspect while another is seen drawing graffiti on the
The writing on the walls It
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3 arrested
Godley school vandals
A DISGRACE
Another Opinion
Big Apple Blues
Board decries racist graffiti School officials urge unity against vandalism
Bomb Threat
Boro giving brush
Cave Vandals Turn Themselves In May
Churchgoers to take on vandals
Cities condemn project which uses website to promote graffiti
Staff photo by Doug Jones
City coffers feel the blight of graffiti
City street art doesn
City Using Parolees to Fight Back Against Graffiti
Community meeting set to discuss graffiti
COMMUNITY WARDENS TAKE TO THE STREETS
Council bans graffiti from biking trail
Criminal damage getting
Dallas man arrested on felony graffiti charge
Docks to receive last minute clean
Don
graffiti abatement program
Ed Collier
Festival elevates hip
Fines
Gang vandalizes Vista House in gorge
Gang vandalizes Vista House in gorge
Geology display east of Las Vegas damaged by vandals
German war memorial in France attacked
Glasgow and Edinburgh city councils say the project
Graffiti
GRAFFITI ARTISTES
Graffiti artists cost
Graffiti crews tidy up downtown
Graffiti gang crackdown
Graffiti suspects held
Graffiti vandals spray
Graffiti
HIP HOP APPRECIATION WEEK
Hotline established to report graffiti
In The Reno Gazette
In The Reno Gazette
Jail for graffiti vandal who
KP vandals sought
Locomotive littered by graffiti
London
Man faces trial in deaths of 3 rivals
Man pleads guilty to graffiti charges
McConnell tells thugs to beware
Meeting looks to target enviro
Monroe fears gangs are coming
MR X
Texas City's Graffiti Removal Plan
NAACP criticizes school district
Style Wars
New pledge on street safety
Nice kids 
Oceanside approves surfer sculpture near underpass
Perdue signs graffiti clean
Perez honored for tagger
Photo
York and North Yorkshire  recruit 45 community support officers
Police power to issue fines on spot by Our Lobby Correspondent ON
Pomona Planning Commission considers graffiti ordinance
Promises empty without power
Racist Graffiti Sprayed on Fla
RAFT OF LEGISLATION ON THE WAY
Rallying cry to keep city clean
Rangers suspect gangs linked to vandalism at Yosemite
Rangers suspect gangs linked to vandalism at Yosemite
Rise in graffiti a sign of urban woes renewed By Sean Kelly
Scotland
Skate Park
Southend
SR Council seeks ways to avoid painful cuts
The StarPhoenix
Students
Students charged for school graffiti
Students keep their eyes and ears open for crime 
Suffolk Square Graffiti
Support for graffiti clean
Swastikas rile Marine Park
Tagger arrested and sentenced Daily Breeze News Paper 4
Thursday
Two teens arrested for threatening graffiti in Weston
UNION
Vandal floods seven
VANDALISM
Vandalism is thorn for garden
Vandalism up in Glen Ellyn parks
Vandals deface historic Masonic center Cops
Vandals spray paint cars
Vandals strike at Town Hall
Vandals trashing history in Utah cave
Vista artwork will brighten buildings
Wayland Police seek clues in weekend school vandalism
Wednesday
WIPE IT OUT
Writing on the wall for graffiti in Knox
Youth program starts making its mark

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Art stores await

battle daily

City street art

City Council Approves Cameras
City to take on graffiti vandalism
Cleanup estimate
colorful history
Council
Dutch look at graffiti model
Easter Bunny
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LBReport.com2
LBReport.com3
GRAFFITI
Graffiti Bill
Graffiti Case Ends With Agreement
Graffiti crew
Graffiti lessons for kids
Graffiti tag team
Graffiti to be removed
Mook1
Graffiti Space Trap
New graffiti does irreversible damage
New Mexico
News from the Cranbourne News
Plant Security
Police identify man suspected of spraying graffiti
Police seek tips about threatening graffiti
Police tag two men in graffiti
Santa Rosa Targets Graffiti With New Law
Sci
Senate passes prisoner graffiti cleanup bill
South East Newspapers
Spray-cans ban
Spring brings out the taggers
SR to view tougher graffiti rules
Tag This One Tough Battle for Chief Bratton
Taking taggers to task
Town
Graffiti Rage
Unwelcome Audience
Graffiti Action Plans
URBAN SCRAWL
Using Cameras to Catch Taggers in the Act
Vandals heavily hit Tuolumne School
Vandals Marring Windows With Permanent Graffiti
Volunteers to wage war on litter, graffiti
Yakima Graffiti Busters Last Updated
CA Taxpayers Will Pay $500,000
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Vandal Shield (Etching Resistant Film, including Acid Etching)
A Blight Elimination Plan for Philadelphia
Cartoon
Eradicating the Stain
Thursday
Galleries A History of Urban Scrawl In Georgetown
Graffiti
Graffiti Art
Graffiti Introduction  This file needs YOUR help
Graffiti Q
IN MEMORY OF SOL
In response to the letter written by Mr
Contemporary Corruption: Art show, LAPD style
Monday April 30
No graffiti walls  I have surveyed over 300 cities since 1985 when I began in graffiti abatement
Sent from
The sixth grade class at Public School 73 in Maspeth
SO YOU WANNA WRITE ON WALLS   So You Wanna Write On Walls from The Bomb Hip
Subject
Sunday
The War on Graffiti is a War on The New Class An Analysis of the Strategy and Tactics of the War
Writing and Your Health
SWAT team siege   Mom
Added 04/20/01
Vandals Attack MUNI with Acid
Reward
Civil War
Combating Graffiti
Community graffiti wall could spell disaster for town
Dream
Graffiti is a sad sign of the times
Graffiti Vandals Hit Roseville Police Department
Graffiti Wall for Taos Youth Sparks Concern
La Jolla School Defaced With Racist Graffiti
Local City Cracks Down On Graffiti
Local Youth Fight Gang Members
Megan Bowers
More Alberta Businesses Marred By Vandals
Neo
Newport Might Outlaw Carrying Markers
Northeast Portland Vandalism Concerns Police
NSW aims to wipe out graffiti with new legislation  The New South Wales
Phoenix AZ
Police Search For Graffiti Vandal
Stockton Monument Defaced Officials Unsure If Graffiti Is Racially Motivated
Teens Arrested For Church Vandalism
Tujunga
Vandals
Vandals Hit Peninsula Middle School
Youngwood Graffiti Suspect Arrested
Added 02/12/01
Another Death
Anti Gay Graffiti
Arrest Investigation
Arrested
Arson Suspect
Brand of Beauty
Camera's and Computers
Costa Mesa Graffiti
FBI Information
Glow in the dark Paint
Graffiti artist arrested at show
Graffiti Love
Graffiti Wave
Hallowed Museum
Hate Crime Offender
Indian Hills
Instant beautification
Los Angeles
McCollum Vandalism
More Money Sought for Los Angeles
News From Costa Mesa
Officer Will be Missed
Ravenswood Graffiti
San Francisco Summit
School
Subway gets cleaned
Tagged as a vandal
Anti Graf Complaint
Your Town
Added 12/2/00
Anti-Graffiti Citizens' Battle The City
Dreaming of a King
Good Graffiti Exhibition
Citizens Help Clean Up Schools 
'Sky' writer grounded
TV'S DUMBEST GRAFFITI ARTISTS
Graffiti marks route of Novena participants
A teacher turned inventor racks up gritty patents
Teens' Murals Will Brighten Ride Along Stretches of TRAX
Feeling the Graffiti Burn
Readin', Rappin' and 'Riten Graffiti
CHAPTER 30--HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES
House work, a mural and signs are coming to local parks
In war on graffiti, D.C. gets 'tagged'
What is hip-hop music and culture?
Anti-GM message is writ large by artists
Interviews
Resolution
From sf to nyc
Street math
Saber
Prague 6 graffiti clean up kicks in
Vandalism not the same as making your mark
Graffiti war takes to the skies
Teenager is sentenced in lawn vandalism case
Teen faces prison term in graffiti case
Mother, son charged in graffiti case
Officer's Efforts
Historic Building Hit
Amtrack
Art Auction
Radical Group
Christa's mural
Ohio State University
Graffiti Arrest
Neighborhood Depression
Graffiti Arrest
Synagogue Graffiti
GAP
Crackdown
Philadelphia Mural Arts
More History
Latest Interview
Los Altos Graffiti
Carson Ca
Miami Arrest
It's Never Easy
Mountain View
New Hamshire
New York
List of State/City News
Paris
Phoenix AZ
Kansas City
Hip Hop Info
South Shore
Transit Police
Graffiti Arrest

What do you feel about strong
Penalties for vandals
"Graffiti" Taking a Closer Look
Busted With The Internet
Does Tagging Leads to increase
of Crimes
Graffiti – The Untold Story
HOUSE OF REVOLUTION
DRAG RACING POLICE OFFICER
The 1998 Community Attitude Study
Paint Sales Banned
Deliberating the guilt
Dispute brews over cafe's wall of graffiti
Read up on the Hows and Why
The Paint Industry's Anti-Graffiti Project
Vandals' act leads to diesel spill
Freedom Of Speech
Taggers' big, ugly mark to be
quickly cleaned
New World Order
Police nab graffiti taggers
Too much writing on the walls
Vandals attack Aboriginal landmark
'Yes on 9' Graffiti Equals 'No' Vote
Barriers weighed to keep taggers
off bridges
Ruling Has Made It Harder to
Lock Up Taggers
Transit District putting cameras in buses
Outlawing sale of etching tools to teens
ANTI-GRAFFITI VIDEO
Graffiti artists taking talent from
street corners
Writing and Your Health
A place for good wall hunting
Brush With Greatness
McLeish to set out his stall on
zero tolerance
Tag—you're it
Curfew  Puts an end to vandalism
Graffiti Artists Tag the Web Wall
Sick of graffiti, they take up paintbrushes
Grappling with graffiti
War Memorial on guard after
graffiti attack
Office vandalized with swastikas and satanic graffiti
No more scribbling or spray painting
Council cracks down on
Crime Spray
Students taped vandalizing school
Effort to paint over graffiti lauded
Volunteers Paint Over Vandalism
Stationary target: railway surveillance
S.J. neighborhood gets Web page
Nothing blissful about junked-up Bliss
A Chance To Defeat Graffiti
Graffiti: "Writing" in the City
Accountability
Art Crimes Site
History of Graffiti Professor
Graffiti worries Clarkston educators
WALL-TO-WALL GRAFFITI
After-hours vandalism
Police Hate Squad is investigating
The Evolution of Rap Music in the
United States
Graffiti artist, not terrorist
A Spray of History in Cyberspace
'Tagger' tries to erase the damage
THE REAL ENEMY
THE ANTI-GRAFFITI MOVEMENT
Bus Driver Recovers From Attack
More Vandalism At War Memorial
Darby youth jailed for graffiti
Graffiti vandals' parents face suits
Barriers weighed to keep taggers
off bridges
Art covers graffiti on Aranui buildings
Broken Windows
Should it be illegal
to sell spray-paint to kids
Abuse of Academic Freedom
PRESERVE YOUR CITY OR TOWN!
Caltrans and Graffiti
Graffiti Abatement Tools
and Techniques
School Web Sites
Chicago Votes Law
Evicting Gang Members
Contra Costa Times Coverage of the Graffiti Exhibition
Anti-Graffiti Effort Moves to Prevention
ANTI-GRAFFITI LAW
"There are other ways
to make your mark"
Anti-Graffiti Network Program
GRAFFITI IN MISSISSAUGA WON’T BE TOLERATED
Youth Council wipes out graffiti
Anti-Graffiti Presentation
Merced community task force
Police Continue to Crackdown on Graffiti
Task Force targets graffiti vandals
Authorities crack vandalism ring that organized over Internet
Soundwalls may draw graffiti vandals
Caltrans' war on graffiti waged
Preventing Vandalism
CASH REWARDS UP TO $500 PAID!
City program rewards citizens
PRESS CONFERENCE ON POLICE HARASSMENT
Youth admits to spraying graffiti
GRAFFITI REDUCTION UNIT
Vandalism in our Parks
Conservation & Environment
Graffiti and gangs unwelcome
Cops crack down on graffiti
Walls Have Tongues
Graffiti wave comes back
Controlling/Regulating Graffiti
Vandalism upsets Mayor
Appearance of graffiti
Effects on a Community
"TOOMR"
Classrooms damaged by racist vandalism
"2TSIE" or "TOOTSIE" 22,
Closed-circuit security cameras installed
"BISER"
Resolution regarding
Vandalism Is Adopted
"OPALE"
Vandals target Rankin business
"Playboy Eddie"
Fulton safety committee erases some local crime
Officer in charge of Beach Detail
FOCUSING ON MINOR CRIMES
Vandalism, Graffiti, & Pranks
Graffiti is a crime
PRINCIPAL RESPONDS
TO BATHROOM GRAFFITI
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Suspect
Tagger Takes a Tumble
Personal Comment:
Graffiti- Art or vandalism
Park reopens after 'senseless vandalism'
Vandalism Who & why?
Santa Fe police serious about
graffiti troubles
Graffiti Information Page
Graffiti Removal Generates
New Partnerships
Wiping Out The Graffiti
Anti-Graffiti Policy
City of Philadelphia Community Services
City of San José
Anti-Graffiti Program
Marks From the Underground
San Jose steps up war on graffiti
Tagger Task Force Gets Check
Juvenile suspended from school
Graffiti ``artists'' - regretting the day
Graffiti Vandal's E-Mail to Nograf
More Vandal Mail To Nograf
Cicero files suits against two gangs
Building a Digital Museum
Citywide Graffiti Cleanup Effort 
Man Declares War on taggers
Neighbors cover up graffiti
Police pursue Broadway vandals
Great Graffiti Paint Out 
School trustee to erase his image
Portland police suspect two boys
A Vandal Shows His Mentality
Amtrak
Andover Racist Graffiti
Art, or ?
Bart System Rewards
Bloodhounds turned loose on vandals
Writer Speaks Out
C.O.P.S.
Gang graffiti is sprayed on cruiser
DCSO investigates graffiti
Thrill of graffiti costs a life
Graffiti was poor mode of expression
Students honored for graffiti project
Graffiti Vandalizes our Home and Community
There is no set definition of art
Graffiti is Permitted Artwork
ART  VANDALS
ART'S  VANDALS
Graffiti is a big concern in today's society
A Picture Spray Painted a Thousand Words
Eyesore finally sees paint
New graffiti-blasting trucks
Winn Management Company
Project supports graffiti
City crews fight graffiti
A Resource and Reference Handbook
Vandalism Takes No Holidays
  Jeff Daniel on Art
Mexico University Crisis Drags On
Puerto Ricans Graffiti Navy Ship
Authorities crack vandalism ring
City losing fight with urban scrawl
Punish vandals, not graffiti artists
Recent rash of graffiti prompts response
A shocking sign of the times
School Security Program Achievements
Security Tighter After Swastika Found
TAG Team Report for April 1999
City of Omaha 
Graffiti program getting a lift
Why fight spray paint lockup?
Grease stains off driveways
Where have all the paintbrushes gone?
Graffiti removal plan
Cerritos CA Wall
Cost due to glass etching
Note from a teacher
Note from a vandal
Third Voice
Writing 'On The Wall
Vandalism/Graffiti Prevention
The War on Graffiti
Graffiti, Who's Asking?
Trax
JFK
Honored
Sound Off
Portland Strategy
Another Third Voice
Hate Graffiti
Grave Vandalized
Racist Graffiti
Viaduct
Get Involved
Fighting Back

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