Hold On To Your Wallets! Cross Your Legs!
Guerrilla Girls
Offset, 1994
New York, NY
9599
CSPG’s Poster of the Week is almost 20 years old, but it shows that artists and activists have long criticized Wall Street. It’s also a perfect poster to focus on the ongoing “Occupy Wall Street” campaign which began September 17, 2011. The footnotes for the poster are below.
Inspired by the massive public protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and Madrid’s Puerta del Sol Square, hundreds of people are currently camping out in a square near Wall Street. The encampment began after a protest that attracted thousands of people and spawned several marches, including one near Union Square that resulted in 80 arrests. Video posted online from the protest shows a police officer pepper-spraying a group of young women while they were surrounded by police netting. Videos and eyewitness accounts show violent clashing between protesters and the police.
On Monday night, September 26—the tenth day of the protest—filmmaker Michael Moore visited the protest encampment. Police have barred the protesters from using any form of public address system at the encampment so the crowd repeated Michael Moore’s comments.
Michael Moore, filmmaker: "Whatever you do, don’t despair, because this is the hard part. You’re in the hard part right now. But everyone will remember three months from now, six months from now, a hundred years from now, that you came down to this plaza and you started this movement."
Poster Footnotes:
1. President; plundered U.S. economy to fund the Gulf War.
2. Board member of failed Silverado Savings & Loan, whose debts are being paid by Taxpayers.
3. Jailed director of failed Lincoln Savings & Loan; masterminded debacle that cost taxpayers $5 billion.
4. Vice-president, whose current missions are: opening wetlands to developers; destroying the northwest timberlands, along with endangered species; and deregulating the 1990 Clean Air Act.
5. Representative from Pennsylvania; indicted on charges of conspiracy, racketeering, and accepting bribes.
6. Former Bush White House Chief of Staff; financed his personal travels with taxpayers' money.
7. Televangelist; defrauded pensioners to finance his network.
8. Former head of Department of Housing and Urban Development; investigated for misappropriation of funds.
9. High Priest of Wall Street during the 1980s; currently incarcerated.
10. Head of the American Family Association; dedicated to dismembering the N.E.A. and N.E.H. [National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities]
11. Known sexual harasser and Supreme Court Justice; currently ruling on legality of Pennsylvania's restrictive abortion rights law.
12. Police chief who fiddled while L.A. burned.
13. Leader of Operation Rescue, whose efforts to rob women of abortion rights have cost Buffalo and Wichita millions.
14. Former President; slashed urban spending by more than 60%, increased U.S. military budget to fight The Evil Empire, and accrued the largest national debt in history.
A Public Service Message From Guerrilla Girls 532 La Guardia Pl. #237, NY 10012
Sources:
http://www.democracynow.org/tags/occupy_wall_street
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/27/headlines#6
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/24/occupy-wall-street-protes_n_979367.html
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/wall-street-protesters-broadcast-arrests-on-social-media/
Poster Footnotes:
1. President; plundered U.S. economy to fund the Gulf War.
2. Board member of failed Silverado Savings & Loan, whose debts are being paid by Taxpayers.
3. Jailed director of failed Lincoln Savings & Loan; masterminded debacle that cost taxpayers $5 billion.
4. Vice-president, whose current missions are: opening wetlands to developers; destroying the northwest timberlands, along with endangered species; and deregulating the 1990 Clean Air Act.
5. Representative from Pennsylvania; indicted on charges of conspiracy, racketeering, and accepting bribes.
6. Former Bush White House Chief of Staff; financed his personal travels with taxpayers' money.
7. Televangelist; defrauded pensioners to finance his network.
8. Former head of Department of Housing and Urban Development; investigated for misappropriation of funds.
9. High Priest of Wall Street during the 1980s; currently incarcerated.
10. Head of the American Family Association; dedicated to dismembering the N.E.A. and N.E.H. [National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities]
11. Known sexual harasser and Supreme Court Justice; currently ruling on legality of Pennsylvania's restrictive abortion rights law.
12. Police chief who fiddled while L.A. burned.
13. Leader of Operation Rescue, whose efforts to rob women of abortion rights have cost Buffalo and Wichita millions.
14. Former President; slashed urban spending by more than 60%, increased U.S. military budget to fight The Evil Empire, and accrued the largest national debt in history.
A Public Service Message From Guerrilla Girls 532 La Guardia Pl. #237, NY 10012
Sources:
http://www.democracynow.org/tags/occupy_wall_street
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/27/headlines#6
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/24/occupy-wall-street-protes_n_979367.html
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/wall-street-protesters-broadcast-arrests-on-social-media/
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