Is it in Relevance for us today?

This post will find unique similarities between Rivera’s Frozen Assets mural and The Occupy Movement. I feel that there are a few key things that connect the Occupy Movement and The Great Depression. Some of the Occupy Movement people have left their homes, lost them, or sold them. Back in the Great Depression, people did the same exact thing. Another thing that I notice while I am looking at the mural, the one with the numbers on it, is that I can see that it’s demonstrating either the dead bodies or the people in the bottom of the picture. The author gives representation that the bottom row can either be banks or in other opinions, maybe the unemployed. An argument that says the bottom portion of the picture is the unemployed is logical because some of them are missing from the top picture. The people are supposed to be inside or working in a corporate building but instead, they appear to be depressed and poor. Saying that the bottom is a bank is logical as well because sing how this mural was a painting representing the Great Depression, the civilians could be trying to take out money from the men behind the gate / bars. With the center drawing, this is where men, women, and children were housed and watched over by a guard, for safety. The families may have been too poor with no income to have a home or have a relative to stay with. Many people lost everything they had except their family and so they ventured out to places for shelter. The occupy people are not living in their homes or in shelters necessarily but they are building miniature camp sites around the USA. Instead of the shelter bringing people together, like in the Great Depression picture, instead it’s a common goal and being able to rely on your next-tent-neighbor.