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Kalle Lasn and Micah White, the Creators of Occupy Wall Street
Kalle Lasn spends most nights shuffling clippings into a binder of plastic sleeves, each of which represents one page of an issue of Adbusters , a bimonthly magazine that he founded and edits.
Tuesday, August 2, The Bankers’ “Debt-Ceiling Deadline”
A PEOPLE’S GENERAL ASSMEBLY ON WALL ST « New Yorkers Against Budget Cuts
Adbusting/Culture Jamming/Graffiti Protest
Steven G. Brant: The United Corporate States Of America
(See Feb 2nd Update, below) In last Thursday night's Special Comment about The Supreme Court's decision, that's what Keith Olbermann said America will become.Hacker collective Anonymous has released fresh details regarding its forthcoming involvement in Adbusters' Occupy Wall Street sit-in protest , claiming the operation will be a "political breakthrough moment."
Anonymous Hackers Demand 'Social Justice' with Occupy Wall Street Protest
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Tracing the Roots of #OccupyWallStreet | iCrossing Digital Marketing Blog, Search Engine Advertising Blog: iCrossing
Oct. 12, 2011 | by Stan Pugsley Occupy Wall Street certainly has emotional roots in the wreckage of the financial meltdown of 2008, and it has philosophical roots in Tahrir Square and other recent uprisings around the world.
This is the story of the man who inspired the OccupyWallStreet movement, the man who perhaps has been dreaming of a movement like this for 20 years, a movement that may outpace The Tea Party in terms of its impact on the global psyche.
Adbusters' Kalle Lasn: the flawed genius behind Occupy Wall Street
An ad Adbusters ran in July. (Image via Adbusters) Back in July, an idea by Kalle Lasn and his colleagues at Adbusters, a nonprofit magazine run by social activists, had started to come together.
Occupy Wall Street: An interview with Kalle Lasn, the man behind it all - BlogPost
Kalle Lasn ( Estonian pronunciation: [ˈkɑlˑɛ ˈlɑsn̥] ) (born March 24, 1942) is an Estonian - Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor and activist.
Kalle Lasn
The #occupywallstreet movement didn't spring up out of nowhere.
The Architect of #OccupyWallStreet Praises the Power of "Magical Hashtags"
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Inside Occupy Wall Street: A Tour of Activist Encampment at the Heart of Growing Protest
Behind the scenes of #OccupyWallStreet
Back in the 1960s, a gang of Yippies, a politicised arm of the hippies led by the late Abbie Hoffman, wormed their way into the tour of the New York Stock Exchange. While up on the visitors' gallery, looking down on the trading floors, they threw US legal tender - coins and bills - at the men below who, when they realised what it was, began diving for dollars. That colourful assault on the money culture took place 40 years ago on August 24, 1967.Egypt’s Top ‘Facebook Revolutionary’ Now Advising Occupy Wall Street | Danger Room
<img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2011/07/201147135551439140_20-660x436.jpg" alt="" width="660" height="436" />More Money, More Problems: How Occupy Wall Street Is Really Funded [UPDATED] | The New York Observer
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