Labor & Employment Law

I?m Not Your ATM Website Nabs Top Visual Arts Award

By Mike Hall

Congrats to our colleagues over at Working America. The organization’s website, I’m Not Your ATM, has won the Gold Communicator Award from the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA) in the activism category and for home page design.

As part of Working America’s and the AFL-CIO’s Good Jobs Now, Make Wall Street Pay campaign, the I’m Not Your ATM website asked visitors to “Send a message to Wall Street” and encouraged people to channel their anger at Wall Street into creative photography and activism.

The campaign website pointed out that Wall Street has treated Main Street as its ATM by taking billions in bailout money after it crashed the economy while Big Bank CEO’s padded their pockets with hundreds of millions in bonuses:

It’s time to tell Wall Street CEOs: We’re not your ATM, and we’re not cleaning up the mess you left. Help get the message across by adding your “I’m not your ATM” picture.

More than 250 did, posing with handmade signs in front of ATM machines from coast to coast. Click here to check them out.

The IAVA is organization of more than 550 leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media.

Full post as published by AFL-CIO NOW BLOG on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).