SOCIAL ISSUE POSTER
I have been immersed in protest culture since i moved to Montreal. Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous and other organizations began to get major attention in the media as I began college and I was fixated on all of it. I stayed up the night Occupy Wall Street got raided by police watching it all on live feeds. This semester I had just seen this haunting image of a police offer pointing a gun directly at a student while they both wore red squares to protest budget cuts. Two sides of spectrum, placed on the same team, and forced to fight eachother while they both beg for permission to protest in a democratic and free country. I couldn't resist creating a Maple Spring graphic. I put the image up on my social media page where it was immediately shared by Occupy Canada and racked up over 100,000 views and 1,000 shares in the first six hours of being placed online. This image has since gone viral. The TRUE North, Strong and Free... (*Some Conditions May Apply)
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