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@OccupySesameSrt. The Muppets Occupy Sesame Street. The Occupy Wall Street movement has been spreading across the United States for the last month.

The Muppets Occupy Sesame Street

Starting in New York City’s financial district, the Occupy Wall Street movement has spread to just about every major city in the United States. From Chicago, to Los Angeles, to Houston, and now, sadly, to Sesame Street. Yes, the Muppets have decided to Occupy Sesame Street. The perfectly photo-shopped images were created by the website Tauntr to help get kids interested in the movement. I mean, who cares if a hippy gets maced? Tauntr writes: “Occupy Wall Street is a major movement both on the streets and on the web, but it isn’t getting the media attention it deserves.

Occupy Sesame Street Goes Viral. O is for... occupation?

Occupy Sesame Street Goes Viral

Occupy Wall Street has spread to more than 25 cities nationwide, and one of those is inhabited by a big yellow bird. Say hello to the latest internet meme: #OccupySesameStreet. According to Mother Jones, the movement began with a tweet by Brooklyn-based design studio, Demo. The tweet linked to a photo of Kermit the frog, urging the masses to "Skip Class!

" because "Radiohead is here dawg! " Occupy Sesame Street got a big push from music producer and graphic designer Michael Lasday, 29, who created a Facebook page that so far has been "liked" by 24,994 people and "talked about" by 32,828. Twitter: Who Needs Wall Street? Occupy Sesame Street! @FiredBigBird. Occupy Facts. Occupy Facts (@OccupyFacts) sur Twitter. 'Occupy the Facts' The Harvard Crimson. About 20 students Sunday night launched “Occupy the Facts,” a nascent student organization hoping to combat charges that protestors in the Occupy movement are uninformed about public policy issues.

'Occupy the Facts' The Harvard Crimson

The organization seeks to conduct important policy research and make their findings accessible to Occupy protesters and the public. The group will spend the next three weeks developing information packages. “I want to see if we [can] create something that could research public policy surrounding the occupiers’ demands,” said Peter D. Davis ’12, one of the project facilitators. “We want to be able to create fact sheets.” One of the projects’ goals is to eventually transform their policy findings into various formats, including educational YouTube videos and info-graphics. Davis said that the inspiration for “Occupy the Facts” is the potential for Occupy to affect social change. Talia B. “I’ve noticed this persistent criticism that the demands of the movement aren’t specific enough,” Talia B.

Occupyresearch - home. The Official Occupy Graduation Website. @occupygrad. Occupy High School / Colleges Universities. Occupyhigh. OccupyHigh (OccupyHigh) sur Twitter. OCCUPY EDUCATION. 27th March 2014 Link with 1 note EmpowerED: Los Angeles Student Power 2014 → If you had the power to change your education, what would you do?

OCCUPY EDUCATION

For the first time ever, leaders from K-12 student unions, like the Chicago Students Union, Newark Students Union, Portland Student Union, and Providence Student Union, will all be in the same room this Saturday at USC, sharing their stories of student organizing for educational justice with students in the LA community and working with them to build the student power movement.

Over 175 students in LA have already registered for the event. Livestream is embedded on our website: 25th March 2014 Video reblogged from Sustainable Prosperity with 12 notes sustainableprosperity: Published on Mar 24, 2014University of Southern Maine student Meagan LaSala and professor Rachel Bouvier explain how cuts disproportionately target faculty and will trigger a decline in quality public eductionSee more videos: 17th June 2013 adventuresinlearning: Tagged: Education fuck. @occupyedu. OccupyEducated.org (@OccupyEducated) sur Twitter. Occupy Student Debt Campaign. @StdntDebtPledge sur Twitter. Chaîne de StudentDebtCampaign. Occupy Knowledge - News, Videos and Updates from the Occupy Movement. Occupy me reet. De Nederlandse Publieke Omroep maakt gebruik van cookies.

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