Monday, October 17, 2011

Occupy T-Shirts?

I went to a site called Project Censored today to see what they had going on. Hadn't been there in a while and wondered what their take on Occupy Wall Street would be. Down on the side they had a link offering t-shirts... T-shirts? That seemed a bit out of place and corporate for a grassroots movement-- but I'll bite. Sure enough, click on the link and you see an article on the branding of Occupy and if you click here you can see the t-shirt. I will admit, at first I thought it was a joke, but we have gone so far down the path of marketing ourselves that even when we try to be anti-corporate, we still buy into the need to be part of the marketplace. *sigh* It's an interesting article which winds up asking "Senior Adbusters Editor Micah White sees danger in OWS being just another link to “like,” another brand prominently featured on our profile wall alongside Jobs and Cheetos: “What better way to cripple the revolutionary potential of a whole generation than to embed the logic of the marketplace within the very tools that would-be revolutionaries use?”  

And then I was going to talk about the prompt-- (maybe tomorrow.) Today: more blogging on #Occupy at Meanderings of a Wandering Mind. At that blog I am discussing the Progressive media, their ties to Occupy and their connections to the democratic party. Hope to hear your thoughts!

6 comments:

  1. So someone is making money off the occupy movement? Figures.

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  2. I have a confession to make... I still don't know what this Occupy thing is all about, even though I see it mentioned all over the place! hehe. Man, I used to be SUCH a good political-head. Now I just suck 'cause I'm always so out of touch with news & current affairs. Something about not owning a television, and always forgetting to check the internet news.

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  3. Your post is really interesting and i enjoyed reading it. Its good to know about Occupy T-Shirts i didn't know about it at all.

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  4. Your header is beautiful.


    It's sort of like the chicken and an egg debate. It boggles the mind.

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  5. Branding is very American. So is deception, fraud, and lies.

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