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Tag: visualizing dissent

Labor protest in Alexandria

Posted on 02/07/200728/12/2020 By 3arabawy

Citizen-journalism at its best.

While walking in the street Alexandrian blogger Moneer unexpectedly bumped into a protest by Tersanet Iskandriya (Alexandria Arsenal) retired workers, who accepted an early buyout, only to get ripped off by their bosses.

Moneer swung into action right away, interviewed the workers, took photos, video clips, uploaded them to the net, with a detailed report and even a Google Earth snapshot of the protest location.

This is a great illustration for how citizen-journalist can act. Documenting the “memory of the class” is only getting easier and easier.

Visualizing ideology: Movies, politics and the working class

Posted on 01/07/200709/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Labor Vs. Capital in the Age of Silent Film:

Visual images can often be far more powerful than words. Back in late 1800s, when New York City’s infamous Boss Tweed was asked why he had offered cartoonist Thomas Nast $500,000 to stop drawing caricatures of him and his cronies, Tweed replied: “I don’t care so much what the papers write about me–my constituents can’t read; but they can understand pictures.”
The same is true today. Movies and mass media most impact us in the areas we know the least about.

Battleship Potemkin

Capitalism

Posted on 05/06/200708/01/2021 By 3arabawy

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