Wednesday, 28 June 2017

Occupy movement.

- The campaign was created by a group of activists  and a call for action from Adbusters who called for the ' Buy nothing Chirstmas.' Occupy Wall Street was the first of this campaign. The movement then turned into and international campaign. The aims where to work against social and economical inequality around the world. But it's main goal , to advance social and economical justice and now forms of democracy. the powers they fight against are major banks and multinational corporations.Creating economic collapse. 'Fight back against the 1% of people that are writing the rules.' http://occupywallst.org/about/ The digital image below is the initial call that adjusters put and and went viral. It depicts the Wall Street bull with an elegant Ballerina balancing on top. Behind then is gas smoke and a mob wearing gas masks. It is a really powerful image , very metaphorical. The Bull clearly represent the banks of Wall Street and the ballerina could depict the delicate economy balancing precariously on top of this raging bull. And the people in the background could be said to be the uprising of the movement coming through.  The text  'What is our demand' is a significant question to pose. It makes people think of there agenda , rather then just being the raging bulls themselves, question why they are doing what they are doing.




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