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The Other 99, Ustream.TV: -Twitter- @Timcast @TheOther99 This channel is being maintained by The Other 99. We continue to be a primary source from the. Occupy Everywhere. Map of People Occupying Wall Street. Map - ACLU Affiliate and Occupy Nationwide - Protest Rights and Resources. JENSEN LUTHER | Graphics. OccupyStreams.org.

MEETUP. #OccupyMap. #OccupyMap. #OccupyMap is a platform for empowering citizen journalists and digital archivists worldwide. With OccupyMap you can publish real time reports from Occupy actions worldwide and help to create an archive of the moment-by-moment history of the Occupy movement. How to Contribute There are several ways you can contribute to OccupyMap. Twitter The most basic is to tweet information @Occupy_Map on twitter - include links to news stories, photos, and your location whenever possible. We're looking to build a network of on-the-ground livetweeters for Occupy actions worldwide. Web You can submit reports after the fact here: You can submit your own photos or videos, or link to content that other people have created. Join the Team We're looking for volunteers to help us with content moderation and curation, outreach, design and software development (LAMP or Ruby) Contact maps@nycga.net for more information on how to volunteer.

What to Contribute Technical Information. Global Square. Next meeting of GlobalSquare (also known as Occupy the WSF initiative) Our next meeting Date: Thursday, 17th of January 2013Time: 19.00 GMT in Mumble, for other locations please use the time zone converterLocation: Occupytalk.org server, room: Assemblies & Round Tables > OPEN SPACEPad for agenda and minutes: (add your proposals here) About our initiative From 26-30 March 2013 the World Social Forum (WSF) will take place in Tunis.

The WSF is a global meeting bringing together civil society organisations, social movements and activists to discuss our struggles to build another world. To discuss and organize our participation in the WSF, we started an open communication process through regular online meetings and a mailing list, building a space open to a variety of initiatives, gathering particularly participants from the various movements mostly emerged throughout the year 2011 (Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Morocco, Spain, Chile, United States, Quebec, etc). GUARDIAN DATA BLOG.

"951 cities in 82 countries" has become the standard definition of the scale of the Occupy protests around the world this weekend, following on from the Occupy Wall Street and Madrid demonstrations that have shaped public debate in the past month. We wanted to list exactly where protests have taken place as part of the Occupy movement - and see exactly what is happening where around the globe. With your help, adding events in our form below, we've been able to show 750 Occupy events world wide. As we wrote this week: Protests inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York and the "Indignants" in Spain have spread to cities around the world. Tens of thousands went on the march in New York, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Rome, Sydney and Hong Kong as organisers aimed to "initiate global change" against capitalism and austerity measures. So, we have started listing all the events we can find verified news reports for. But what have we missed?

Download the data More open data. Occupy Everywhere: pictures of the global movement | World news. GRASSROOTS MAPPING. Post written by Oscar Brett Arriving at Zucotti Park in downtown Manhattan, the site of #Occupy#Wallstreet, you can feel the energy of the crowd. The level of diversity (ideological/ ethnic/ generational) is unbelievable.

The Occupation of Wall Street began on September 17th and it is getting stronger each day. I see my involvement in the park as that of a community builder and artist. The maintenance of a community at Zucotti park is an incredibly important thing; no matter how disparate the media claims the thousands of occupiers to be, there is one thing for certain — they are a community made up of individual people, with varying goals and intentions, voicing their dissent for the systemic problems of the world. Political, ethical, legal, societal, economic qualms are all being voiced in this space, but a major issue exists: how do you bring the animal rights expert together with the Marxist economist, the LGBT advocate together with the anarchist; how can so many ideologies gel?

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Fictions. CRAVIFY | Twitter. 15OCTOBER. DAILY KOS | Solidarity Events + Facebook. HUFFINGTON POST. How big are the Occupy Wall Street protests on Facebook? The Huffington Post analyzed the state of activism on Facebook in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. Over 450,000 Facebook users have joined Facebook pages related to the protests so far. These Facebook pages, found via DailyKos, show the extent to which Occupy Wall Street activity is sprouting up throughout the country on Facebook. The main Occupy Wall Street page not surprisingly is the largest page with over 125,000 likes.

The next largest pages are based in the progressive strongholds of L.A., Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Portland. The map below exhibits the locations and sizes of the pages. NOTE: This data is current as of October 6. If you've been to an Occupy Wall Street event anywhere in the country, we'd like to hear from you. Occupy Wall Street protests around the world. MotherJones. The loose-knit protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street has stirred action from New York City to LA and spread overseas. Here we present an expanding map of protest hot spots and reported arrests, and track the movement's growth.

Check back often for updates—and check out all the rest of MoJo's #OWS coverage here. Protests taking place beyond Manhattan: What began as a call for Americans to gather in New York's Financial District has given rise to like-minded actions nationwide and far beyond. Click on the dots for details from more than 462 locations and over 3,200 arrests (last updated: November 20, 9:30 p.m. PST): Know of more locations for this map? Map production by Lauren Ellis, Samantha Oltman, and Tasneem Raja. How rich are the superrich? A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. A timeline of the Occupy Wall Street movement: