Winter:  Our "Foxconn cover" shows a Chinese factory making iPhones while demonstrators of all sorts gather towards the front of the room.

Everyone is wearing masks.

The background is very stark with mostly black and white imagery while the people in the front have more color, albeit subdued.

One exception to this is the bright red balaclava worn by one of the protesters to honor a departed friend of ours known to some as Jeopardy Jim and others as Red Balaclava.  The latter name came about as a result of a disguise he wore while giving one of the first ever HOPE talks back in 1994 on New York City's newly released MetroCards and, appropriately, he's holding one up.

The other people in this gathering are holding different signs, including:

  • Moroccan Flag - Morocco had just gotten further in this year's FIFA World Cup than any African team had ever been.
  • OneLove Armband - A symbolic gesture planned by football players at the World Cup to support the LGBT community and speak out against hatred.  However, the armbands were banned by the tournament's governing body.
  • GFHG, SDGM - Initials of the romanization of the eight Chinese characters in a banned slogan that meant "Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times."
  • Sheet of White Paper - Known as the "White Paper Protests" in China where people held these up as metaphors of news articles, social media posts, and online accounts that had been erased from the Internet for speaking forbidden words.
  • Ohm - The ohm symbol (resistor) repeated - another way of showing resistance in a very literal sense.
  • A Persian Protest Slogan - Which meant "This massive army is useless.  Indeed, a single fighting girl is worth hundreds of thousands of them."  Massive protests were beginning against the Iranian regime and its policies.
  • MMIW - For the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women movement of North America seeking to call attention to this underreported crisis.  The red hand print (color subdued here) has become a very powerful symbol.
  • Winnie-the-Pooh - The symbol that's really banned in China since people for some reason started comparing Xi Jinping to Pooh Bear.  Some leaders have no sense of humor.
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