Stories and images

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Change the system not the climate: composite of images by J VC and Marco Verch

How cultural power makes a difference

Some of the ways that the cultural power of stories and images makes a difference are summarised in the graphic below:  read more.

Images above:
Ende Gelände – “this far and no further” (Tim Wagner / 350) Fridays For A Future, Feb 2020 (Frankie Fouganthin / Wikimedia Commons) Forward on Climate, 2013 (Shadia Fayne Wood/ Survival Media / 350) Extinction Rebellion Protest, Waterloo Bridge, London (Jenna Post) Rupert Murdoch: adapted from image by Matt Brown (Matt Brown) President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Civil Rights leaders, 1964 (Yoichi Okamoto. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum / NARA) Freedom Riders hang anti-segregation signs from bus windows, 1961 (US Embassy The Hague, Flickr).