October 18, 2011
Occupy America 2011

It was an idea I began a long time ago to address prisoners of conscience from different countries, beginning with Iran (see below). I wanted to create an identity poster system that could be applied to any repressive regime. Seeing the harassment and arrests of “occupiers” everywhere, I felt it was an appropriate way to turn our criteria for looking at democratic norms in other places on ourselves. —Chaz Maviyane-Davies

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Born in Zimbabwe, Chaz Maviyane-Davies is Professor of Design at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. For more than two decades his work has taken on issues of consumerism, health, nutrition, social responsibility, the environment and human rights.