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Expulsion (sig. role of social media)

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With expulsion from Zuccotti Park and numbers dwindling, Occupy Wall Street movement looks old. Kevin Hagen/New York Daily News Officers arrest another Wall St. protestor during day of marches in lower Manhattan.

With expulsion from Zuccotti Park and numbers dwindling, Occupy Wall Street movement looks old

With their expulsion from Zuccotti Park and their numbers dwindling, the future of Occupy Wall Street seemed uneasy at best just two months after its birth. What will likely linger, no matter what happens to the demonstrators, is the anti-greed message they brought to the national agenda. “I sure hope it’s not the end of Occupy Wall Street,” said history professor Jay Moore, 59, who came down from Vermont to witness Thursday’s march on Wall Street. “It’s not just here in New York, it’s all over the place,” he said. “It will take a while to see where it all shakes out.

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