Predetermined parking lots slowly filled as flustered teachers and supporters gathered for a demonstration against the California school budget cuts. Overpasses filled as passing cars honked and disconnected youth yelled obscenities. For over an hour, each protester used their public presence to connect passing minds, project ideas and stimulate change.
Ideas spread like the giggles of schoolyard gossip. Minds become connected through the interest and excitement of a collective. People, when pushed, and ideas, when probed, unite in masses to project passionate beliefs. A critical mass, against all odds, has the potential to inspire change.
Like symbols hanging from wires or eggs hidden in our village, minds are connected through the placement, or presence, of ideas within our streets. T-shirts represent walking billboards and stickers are unintrusive thoughts. Like these unorthodox ways of marketing ideas, public demonstrations work the same way. A civic forum, in this case overpasses throughout our city, provided the opportunity to touch large amounts of minds in a limited amount of time. Resources were few, but the impact is infinite.
Did you see the protests? Where?
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We got scooped. . . good work
oh yeah, I was driving by them and was waiting at the red light. I noticed the kids were kind of not into it (their teachers probably made them do it for extra credit). So I rolled down my window and started shouting as loud as I can, “Fight the Power…Fight the Power!”. All of them got excited that someone else was upping the excitement and they all reciprocated supportive shouts and it even got contagious with other motorists honking their horns etc. Fight the Power!!!
Fight the power!
i do agree