Counter-symbolism can reclaim narrative space from corporate propaganda

Evidence

A creative group of public health advocates launched a countertour with a “Statue of Nicotina” (Wallack, Dorfman, Jernigan, & Themba, 1993). A cigarette replaced the torch in her upheld hand. Her eyes were closed in shame that she was made a symbol of tobacco. A chained pack of cigarettes represented their addictive properties. The inscription at her feet read: “Give me your poor, your tired, your women, your children yearning to breathe free.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1661

Categorization

• SEED: Could anchor a piece on how activists beat corporate symbolic campaigns by preempting and parodying their imagery.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1661
• XREF: connects to: Cause-marketing imagery obscures the systemic extraction behind Western-Third World relations — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1464; Consumer credit and mass prosperity enable widespread symbolic status counterfeiting. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 232