Open AccessOccupy Education
Author(s) -
Dana Blanchard
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
radical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-0832
pISSN - 0191-4847
DOI - 10.5195/rt.2013.24
Subject(s) - desk , flags register , visual arts , container (type theory) , truck , port (circuit theory) , point (geometry) , sociology , media studies , political science , art , engineering , law , computer science , mechanical engineering , electrical engineering , aerospace engineering , operating system , geometry , mathematics
As I sit at my desk and begin to unpack my materials for the new school year, I come across the poster from the November 2nd General Strike in Oakland. The image is of protesters with signs and flags on top of container trucks silhouetted against the setting sun at the port of Oakland. It is an image that has come to represent the high point of the Occupy struggle in the Bay Area and served as inspiration for what has become possible in the struggle against the 1%