Blog Post#8

In my opinion the main aspect that connects Diego Rivera’s Frozen Assets mural to the Occupy Movement is the message. During the great depression in the 1930’s a lot of people lost their wealth and fortunes, but the people who didn’t took this as an opportunity to get wealthier at the poor’s expense. Diego was trying to capture the fact that while corporations and people were getting wealthier by influencing one another the poor were getting poorer with no one to turn too, not even the government. There was and still is a divide between the wealthy and the poor.

 Today’s Occupy Movement is no different because people are standing up for the economic and social inequality. Since the Recession in 2007 people and corporations have been trying to become financially stable, but the people feel that the corporations have been doing it the wrong way. Instead of trying to spread the wealth they only help themselves. The connection in my opinion is clear because the dynamics are the same just different times. During the 30’s peoples finances were low and it was hard to afford much of anything, times were hard. The article stated that in 2007 that the richest 1% of Americas population owned 34.6% of the country’s total wealth. Times have changed but the fact still remains that the country is not financially stable. Rivera’s paintings made a great statement back then, and the people who are protesting are making an even bigger statement this time around.