Does Occupy Wall Street Need a Logo?
Some graphic designers have come up with various proposals, but one wonders whether the motley crew of anti-corporate urban campers would welcome such a commercial device.
Some graphic designers have come up with various proposals, but one wonders whether the motley crew of anti-corporate urban campers would welcome such a commercial device.
That being said, creative types have played a huge role in organizing and inspiring protesters. And we shan’t forget that those subversive media magicians over at Adbusters got the whole thing started with a brilliant poster (embedded below).
Here are some suggestions for an OWS logo posted on The New York Times website. — PZS
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The wealth gap of this beyond-gilded age is sure to shape a truly messy world ahead.
As writer Ben Judah argues, the Occupy movement, Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders changed this generation's thinking, and made a come-from-behind win like that of New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez possible.
We have become a Potemkin society where tokens are put on the stage to represent equality while the vast majority of Americans are economically enslaved.
Knowledge, organized and available to all motivated voters, can win out. Then we can get our country back.
The voting booth is a bust for the kinds of change most Americans want. We must create grass-roots movements that shake the nation to its foundations.
As American activist Joel Kovel wrote six years ago, "The future will be eco-socialist, because without eco-socialism there will be no future."
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