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# Taking the Protest to the Money
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/taking-the-protest-to-the-money/
- Published: 2012-01-11T15:12:30.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:36:58.000Z
- Description: What is so common that it can be a platform for your work? One project, Occupy George (as in Washington), has found their solution, money.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, infographics, Occupy Wall Street, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 06:51 (2012, 2013, part 1)

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If the desire of any artist is to communicate an idea to a public, then the drive to communicate to the largest public possible is a natural next step for many creatives.

The problem with this dilemma is that how do you do that? What is so common that it can be a platform for your work? One project, Occupy George (as in Washington), has found their solution, money.

As the Occupy George website [explains](Money talks, but not loud enough for the 99%. By circulating dollar bills stamped with fact-based infographics, Occupy George informs the public of America's daunting economic disparity one bill at a time. Because money knowledge is power.):

> Money talks, but not loud enough for the 99%. By circulating dollar bills stamped with fact-based infographics, Occupy George informs the public of America’s daunting economic disparity one bill at a time. Because money knowledge is power.

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This isn’t the first time money has been the medium of a project. The [Where’s George](http://www.wheresgeorge.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) bill-tracking project is an obvious precedent for this OWS-related endeavor.

*h/t* [*rebel:art*](http://www.rebelart.net/diary/occupy-george-so-werden-geldscheine-zu-manifesten/0012024/?ref=hyperallergic.com)