Shepard Fairey's We The People

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Street artist Shepard Fairey designed the “We the People” artwork for the 2017 Women’s March. In addition, the artwork above symbolizes a Latina, a Muslim, and an African-American. Since Fairey felt as if these were the assemblage President Donald Trump has targeted the greatest and they were vulnerable considering Trump and his administration would neglect them. In fact, “We the People” comes from the US Constitution and is a reminder to the people that the phrase stands for every individual in the United States not just one specific individual. There are multiple concepts that these images signify, moreover the three that highly stand out would be Feminism, Women’s Rights, and Minority Rights. According to Encyclopedia Britannica, Feminism

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