In the first picture, we can see a protester being taken away by police during a sit-down union strike. The second picture shows a homeless man sleeping on a park bench.
The first picture illustrates that workers have been protesting unfair treatment for decades. The man seems to be in pain, and the officer on the left has his baton in the air, suggesting he has just hit the man in the stomach. There is no indication of other violent activity in the background, although you can see other higher class men looking on, seemingly uncaring about the man being physically attacked by the police.
The second picture shows an ironic sense of freedom as the man is sleeping under the American flag, which is seen as a symbol of freedom. Some might say that he has the ultimate freedom - with no job and no home, he is not tied down to anything. All his possessions are stored in a shopping trolley parked next to him, indicating his transit life.
Both pictures illustrate poverty as a violation of freedom - the union worker is not allowed the freedom to protest against his employers, and the homeless man has an ironic freedom of transit, but just like the union worker, he does not have the freedom to do as he pleases.
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