Ricardo Torres
Professor Kubal
Social movements
05/08/2014
Tactic 6
In most images on the news that cover protests or social movements there is almost symbolic expected scenery. The thousands of crowded streets are a given and the people who fill it; however, the picket sign is the item in question here. On March fourth a mass movement was made to join several movements into one big event called March forth on March fourth. As a participant in this protest and social movement I and my group got to participate in an actual picket with our won signs. The picket sign so simple and inexpensive yet altogether powerful symbol of social movements was to be our tool of change. The materials were provided by our professor who gave every group a budget. In the making of our signs care and precise wording was important since this was to be the first thing the cars and the people driving them would see as well as all the onlookers in and around the school. The wording had to have a few things first our name and what it stood for, second a message that gave the onlooker empathy and concern for our cause. The materials consisted of parts of a picket fence, hence the name and billboard paper. I felt emboldened as we marched and I held my picket firmly knowing this was the method of thousands of other social activists I felt as though I were in a movie as we walked along Shaw and the cars honked. While I feel like my group and I evenly had significant roles in this process because I made my own picket sign it had a drawing I drew that I felt signified our cause. It was a fist the image of the socialist movement with flames around it. This image was drawn from the anger I felt once I learned more about my cause and the urgency I felt to share it with people. I felt this tactic was very useful and so easy to assemble it remains the symbol for the revolutionary or simple social movements today.
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