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#OccupyWallStreet Is More Than a Hashtag – It’s Revolution in Formation
23 September 2011
by Nathan Schneider
Truthout | Report
A lot of what you’ve probably seen or read about the #occupywallstreet action is wrong, especially if you’re getting it on the Internet. The action started as an idea posted online and word about it then spread and is still spreading, online. But what makes it really matter now is precisely that it is happening offline, in a physical, public space, live and in person. That’s where the occupiers are assembling the rudiments of a movement.
At the center of occupied Liberty Plaza, a dozen or so huddle around computers in the media area, managing a makeshift Internet hotspot, a humming generator and the (theoretically) 24-hour livestream. They can edit and post videos of arrests in no time flat, then bombard Twitter until they’re viral. But for those looking to understand even the basic facts about what is actually going on – before September 17 and since – the Internet has been as much a source of confusion as it is anything else. Continue reading “Protesters Available, Mission TBA”