The Occupy movement is, it sometimes seems, everywhere and inescapable. Whether you're tweeting, watching the evening news, or merely walking through a particular section downtown in many major cities, you're bound to hear something about the 99% and their criticisms of modern financial and government institutions.
Lacking any real education with regards to economics and banking systems, I find myself unable to weigh in either in favor of or against the Occupiers. I do, however, support without question the right of American citizens to publicly assemble and voice their concerns and opinions without fear of oppression or violent aggression.
Assigned to make a remix video for my Creating Digital Media class, and with the recent police violence at Occupy protests in mind, I made this video, a cut up audio and video footage gleaned mostly from YouTube. And while it's a much more visually-oriented piece, it occurs to me now that my video-making process was really not so different from assembling a Storify - sourcing information, cutting it up, rearranging it as you see fit to say something meaningful. And when you think about it, Storifying is just classic storytelling via a different medium; so really, remix is at the heart of all storytelling.
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