The 13 Best Protest Signs Seen at Occupy Wall Street
The Occupy Wall Street protests have moved into their third week, and the protesters are well aware that this is a movement that needs advertising: Their marches and sit-ins are being exhaustively videoed and photographed. The protest is as much a social media phenomenon as it is a physical one. (And, of course, the genesis of the movement is Adbusters, the Canadian anti-advertising magazine that is read as voraciously on Madison Avenue as it is among campus radicals.)
Can a movement be branded if it has no brand managers? You be the judge. Here are 13 of the most witty signs snapped by Flickr users David Shankbone and kapkap, CC.
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1. Obama is not ...
The right does not have a monopoly on religious political arguments, apparently.
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2. Do you feel it trickle down?
Perfect weather for it.
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3. Honk if you pay your taxes
This seems to be some sort of sly commentary on Tea Partiers who believe taxation is inherently evil.
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4. Wall Street is Nero ...
It certainly involves fiddling.
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5. None are more hopelessly enslaved ...
Did she just blow your mind? (That philosophy major finally came in useful!)
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6. Don't kill the flowers!
Of course there are hippies -- it's a protest.
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7. The only way to deal ...
Easier said than done, of course.
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8. Privatize profits, socialize losses
More of a statement of fact than opinion.
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9. Fix are skoolz
She'll still get partial credit for "fix."
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10. I won't believe corporations are people ...
Citizens United is turning out to be the Kelo v. New London of the left.
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11. Ignore me go shopping
And his T shirt says "I'm a goat."
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12. America; 99 percent poor ...
I did look this up and it turns out to be wrong. Oh well.
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13. End the war ...
Pacifism and a return to the Gold Standard aren't mutually exclusive, of course. (Just very, very rare.)