Editing Charging Bull (section)

==Criticism==
[[File:Wall-Street-1.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.75|A poster showing a ballerina on the ''Charging Bull'' to promote the [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement]]
''Charging Bull'' has often been a subject of criticism from an [[Criticism of capitalism|anti-capitalist]] perspective. The [[Occupy Wall Street]] protests used the statue as a symbolic figure around which to direct their critiques of corporate greed. A 2011 image from ''[[Adbusters]]'' portraying a dancer posed in an [[Glossary of ballet|attitude position]] atop the sculpture was used to promote the forthcoming protests.<ref>{{cite magazine |journal=[[The Link (newspaper)|The Link]] |title=The Ballerina and the Bull: Adbusters' Micah White on 'The Last Great Social Movement' |first=Laura |last=Beeston |date=October 11, 2011 |url=http://thelinknewspaper.ca/article/1951 |access-date=October 12, 2011}}</ref> The first gathering of Occupy took place around the sculpture on September 17, 2011, before moving to [[Zuccotti Park]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://money.cnn.com/2011/09/17/technology/occupy_wall_street/index.htm |title=Hundreds of protesters descend to 'Occupy Wall Street' |last=Pepitone |first=Julianne |website=CNNMoney |access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref> Because of the protests, the bull was surrounded by barricades and guarded by police<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Harshbarger |first1=Rebecca |last2=Rosario |first2=Frank |date=December 27, 2011 |title=Outrage over caged Wall Street bull |url=https://nypost.com/2011/12/27/outrage-over-caged-wall-street-bull/ |access-date=June 14, 2020 |website=New York Post |language=en}}</ref> until 2014.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=DeGregory |first1=Priscilla |last2=Harshbarger |first2=Rebecca |date=March 25, 2014 |title=Free market: Barricades around Wall Street Bull go down |url=https://nypost.com/2014/03/25/free-market-barricades-around-wall-street-bull-go-down/ |access-date=June 14, 2020 |website=New York Post |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Badia |first1=Erik |last2=McShane |first2=Larry |title=Freedom! Barricade around Wall Street 'Charging Bull' comes down |website=New York Daily News |date=March 26, 2014 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/barricade-wall-street-bull-article-1.1735263 |access-date=June 14, 2020}}</ref>

''Charging Bull'' has been likened to the [[golden calf]] worshiped by the [[Israelites]] during their [[The Exodus|Exodus]] from [[Egypt]]. During Occupy Wall Street on multiple occasions an interfaith group of religious leaders led a procession of a golden calf figure that was modeled on the bull.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/donna-schaper/occupy-wall-street-the-go_b_1004946.html |title=Occupy Wall Street, The Golden Calf And The New Idolatry |last=Schaper |first=Donna |date=October 11, 2011 |website=Huffington Post |language=en-US |access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_Z9EAgAAQBAJ |title=Religion, Theology, and Class: Fresh Engagements after Long Silence |last=Rieger |first=J |publisher=Springer |year=2013 |isbn=978-1137339249 |pages=114}}</ref> A large [[papier-mâché]] [[piñata]] made by Sebastian Errazuriz for a 2014 New York design festival was intended to be reminiscent of both the golden calf and ''Charging Bull''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/anti-capitalist-golden-cow-pinata-sculpture-rains-cash-in-brooklyn-27270 |title=Anti-Capitalist Golden Cow Piñata Sculpture Rains Cash in Brooklyn |last=Cascone |first=Sarah |date=May 27, 2014 |work=Artnet |access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref> Further comparisons to the golden calf have been made by Jewish and Christian religious commentators.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Badcock |first1=Gary D. |title=God and the Financial Crisis: Essays on Faith, Economics, and Politics in the Wake of the Great Recession |date=2016 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=9781443888370 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_CD5DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 |access-date=April 12, 2017}}<br>{{cite book |last1=Myers |first1=Robin |title=The Underground Church: Reclaiming the subversive way of Jesus. |date=2012 |publisher=SPCK |location=New York |isbn=9780281069422 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=clapAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT114 |access-date=April 12, 2017}}<br>{{cite book |last1=Susen |first1=Simon |last2=Turner |first2=Bryan S. |title=The Spirit of Luc Boltanski: Essays on the 'Pragmatic Sociology of Critique' |date=2014 |publisher=Anthem Press |isbn=978-1783082971 |page=460 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Po1DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA460 |access-date=April 12, 2017}}<br>{{cite book |last1=Gushee |first1=David P. |last2=Stassen |first2=Glen H. |title=Kingdom Ethics, 2nd ed.: Following Jesus in Contemporary Context |date=2016 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |isbn=9780802874214 |page=373 |edition=2nd |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Yj8BDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA373 |access-date=April 12, 2017}}<br>{{Cite news |url=http://forward.com/opinion/367700/why-im-not-bullish-on-fearless-girl/ |title=Why I'm Not Bullish On 'Fearless Girl' |work=The Forward |access-date=April 14, 2017}}</ref>