Waiting Room, 1957 Egg tempera on gesso panel, 24 x 30 in. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Researching potential cover images for a book on sleep, capitalism, and medicine in modern American culture. The Director recommended the work of George Tooker.
My boy tolstoy said this thing that ruined my life once “I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.”
Beth Jacobson was a Wells Fargo loan officer who blew the whistle on the bank’s predatory, racist loan-fraud in the runup to the 2008 financial crisis, which tanked the world’s economy and nearly wiped out Wells Fargo (they were rescued with a $36B taxpayer-funded bailout).
Eight years later, Wells Fargo has fired 5,300 employees for participating in a scam that involved opening 2,000,000 fake accounts in its customers’ names, stealing their money and crashing their credit-ratings – the gave the exec who oversaw this a $125M taxpayer-subsidized bonus, and CEO John Stumpf, who took home $200M in bonuses based on profits from the fraud, will keep the money and his job, but the whistleblowers who reported the fraud starting in 2011 were all illegally fired.
Jacobson describes how Stumpf – now CEO, then a top exec – was complicit in the fraud that helped precipitate the crash and the worst recession since the Great Depression. She pins blame for the loan-fraud on the bank’s aggressive sales targets – the same thing that caused the current fraud, suggesting that the bank hasn’t learned a fucking thing since 2008, except that it can get away with crime, every time.
High resolution 12″ x 12″ poster inspired by #NODAKOTAACESS #NOCOLONIZERS awareness in the evolving landscape of Indigenous resistance and tribal sovereignty. As with all our posters, feel liberated to share, repost, print, disseminate & wheatpaste at will! #RISEindigenous
