Occupy The Igloo

On January 25 – next Wednesday – the World Economic Forum will convene in Davos, Switzerland. Members of the Occupy Movement associate the World Economic Forum with a kind of global economic planning that favors corporations and wealthy individuals instead of focusing on the needs of working people.

So, a group calling itself OccupyWEF – Occupy the World Economy Forum – has formed to organize creative protests at the site of the conference. The group has issued a statement explaining its first tactic: Snow architecture.

The statement explains, “We defend ourselves against the power of corporations and corrupt elites. Starting on January 21, 2012, together we are building an igloo camp, made of snow and ice… And wherever you are: Give your power on January 21, 2012 to an international day of protest against the 1%, which we blame for the rules of an unfair world economy and for stealing our future.”

As this photograph by JUSO Schweiz shows, the Occupy Igloo activism has already started. There’s not only an igloo to house the Davos Occupy protest, but a snow podium too, for frigid press conferences.