This spring Design Action Collective had the honor of supporting a groundbreaking national coalition of labor and community organizations, building on the momentum of the Occupy movement, to coordinate a national campaign against Wall Street’s banks, corporations, and the 1%. This national initiative coalesced into two connected formations: 99% Power, which was the national coalition of organizations and alliances executing actions against the shareholder meetings of worst banks and corporations in the world; and 99% Spring, which carried out non-violent direct action trainings for tens of thousands of people across the country in preparation for the shareholder meetings. Both formations had huge successes.
Design Action Collective is proud to have developed the logo for the 99% Power coalition, as well as designing and programing the coalition’s website www.the99power.com. Design Action also designed a series of posters for the actions against the shareholder meetings of Wells Fargo in San Francisco along with an associated website www.stopwellsfargo.com, Bank of America in Charlotte NC along with an associated website www.bankvsamerica.org, and Walmart in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
www.the99power.com / designed and programmed by Design Action Collective
Wells Fargo Shareholders Meeting Poster by Design Action Collective
www.stopwellsfargo.com / designed and programmed by Design Action Collective
Bank vs America poster / by Design Action Collective for the Unity Alliance
www.bankvsamerica.org / designed and programmed by Design Action Collective for the Unity Alliance
Walmart poster by Design Action Collective
Its time to start naming names poster by Design Action Collective
Its time to start naming names poster by Design Action Collective
Here are photos and videos from the actions:
Video Cast & Crew: Ms. 99: Lenina Nadal/Right to the City; Brian Big Banks: Randy Jackson, The UNITY Alliance; MC: Rishi Awatramani/ Virginia New Majority; Director, Doyle Canning/smartMeme for The Unity Alliance, Producer, Danielle Connor/smartMeme, Costumes: Kimi Lee/Unity Alliance, Video shot by: Mikel Barton & Sowjanya Kudva; Photographs by: Jed Brandt/Right to the City Alliance; Edited by: Sowjanya Kudva and Danielle Connor
Wells Fargo Shareholder Meeting in SF. Photo by Josh Warren-White.
Wells Fargo Shareholder Meeting in SF. Photo by Josh Warren-White.
Wells Fargo Shareholder Meeting in SF. Photo by Josh Warren-White.
Wells Fargo Shareholder Meeting in SF. Photo by Josh Warren-White.
Bank of America Shareholder Meeting. Photo by John Duffy.
Bank of America Shareholder Meeting. Photo by John Duffy.
The organizations involved in the 99% Power coalition were: the New Bottom Line, the Unity Alliance, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the Alliance for a Just Society, MoveOn.org, National People’s Action, 350.org, the Right to the City Alliance, Pushback Network, Rebuild the Dream, UNITE HERE!, SEIU, Jobs with Justice, Health GAP, the International Labor Rights Forum, the Food Chain Workers Alliance, the United Steelworkers, Rainforest Action Network, Public Citizen, the Institute for Policy Studies, the Other 98%, Common Cause, ROC United, Enlace, and the Public Campaign Action Fund.