@bob The more I learn and the older I get, the more I approve of this style and message.
We need drastic depictions of imperialism, and its current digital spin-off, surveillance capitalism. Cheerful campaigns with constant comic relief are largely uneffective, because that's what the other side is doing as well. #Google, #Microsoft and others are still largely perceived as colorful happy-go-lucky companies. They need to be associated with oppression, suffering and death. #DroneWar #ICE
@bob But I think that poster is really quite good. It does not repeat corporate imagery and it's not "clean" but rather unruly, those are important non-verbal signals.
However if activists operate inside the corporate aesthetic, it might be appealing and "family-friendly" to some, but in the end it just backfires. And I think some campaigns have that problem right now, they don't sting enough. Even a drone in the blue skies and pop-cultural references are essentially clean and non-threatening.
Art can play a significant role in changing things, because the real obstacles are more psychological than physical.
Cheerfull campaigns may still be quite effective. Few people identify with the iconography of sombre leftists. Quite a while ago I liked the campaigns of Class War in London which were mostly anti-gentrification. Their posters were bright and imaginative.