“Vendetta” masks have become the symbol for the Occupy movement worldwide. Guy Fawkes was a Catholic Englishman who tried to blow up the House of Parliament as one of the five members of the Gunpowder Plot. King James I of England had created legislation that he was to be recognized as the head of the Church and those who refused to submit to this law were killed. The use of these masks at the occupy movement is thought to symbolize standing up in the face of injustice and representing the strength of the people over the government. It’s ironic because Time Warner owns the rights to the masks from the movie V for Vendetta that popularized them, so people have to pay a huge corporation in order to protest against huge corporations. Many alternative options have been created to avoid this.
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