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Occupy Brisbane (@OccupyBrisbane) sur Twitter. Occupy Brisbane. Social media inspires the Occupy movements - coming to Australia - let us see how 'justice' responds when these movements are on 'their' doorstep. | Indymedia Australia. So-called social media movements in the Middle East and North Africa have been applauded by western governments. Leaders of the so-called 'free world', including Barack Obama asked leaders of these nations to respect the will of the people, to respect their right to freedom of speech and the right to protest, and in many cases for national leaders to step down.

These social media movements are now happening across America with the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy America movements. The Brooklyn Bridge was blockaded by thousands of civil protestors coalesced by social media. They have had enough of the arbitrary indiscretions of the US government, Wall Street, the Bankers and the Multinationals. What was the response of American authorities? - the same country that has asked other nations of the world to respect the will of their peoples, and who applauded the social media that urged on 'revolutions'. Their response was to arrest 700 protestors on Brooklyn Bridge.

Five Ways #OccupyWallStreet Has Succeeded by Mark Engler. They were predicted to be a flash in the pan. So why are the anti-Wall Street occupations growing? Posted Sep 30, 2011 #OccupyWallStreet protests are now well into their second week, and they are increasingly capturing the public spotlight. This is because, whatever limitations their occupation has, the protesters have done many things right. I will admit that I was skeptical about the #OccupyWallStreet effort when it was getting started. “Why are people protesting Wall Street?” With #OccupyWallStreet, the protest did not draw in any of the major institutional players on the left. That said, this relatively small group has been holding strong. #OccupyWallStreet has accomplished a great deal in the past week and a half, with virtually no resources. 1.

The #OccupyWallStreet protesters have been often criticized for not having clear demands. How to Liberate AmericaHow is it that our nation is awash in money, but too broke to provide jobs and services? 2. I write this partially in jest. 3. Beyond Wall Street: 'Occupy' protests go global. Facebook calls for a global "Occupy" protest on October 15 similar to the demonstrations on Wall Street have appeared in more than 25 countries.

Facebook calls for a global "Occupy" protest on October 15 similar to the Wall Street protestsDemonstrations in more than 25 countries from Ireland to Italy, Hong Kong to Chile"Occupy the London Stock Exchange" plans nearly two months of demonstrationsMelbourne organizer: "We are inspired by what's happening on Wall Street" (CNN) -- Wall Street is more than 10,000 miles away from Melbourne, but 24-year-old Australian Alex Gard felt a kinship to the outrage expressed on the streets of Manhattan. "It's great that people are finally standing up against the privileged few people who want to rule together," Gard said. "I wanted to stand together and say, `Enough is enough'. " Gard is one of the organizers of "Occupy Melbourne," a group that started on Facebook that now has more than 2,000 members with plans to protest on October 15 in City Square.

The Wall St journey hits our shores, but do we need it? The fledgling ‘Occupy Wall St’ movement looks set to spawn a local chapter as grassroots protesters prepare to occupy key capital city landmarks to strike back against “corporate greed”. Occupations will kick off in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide on October 15, with organisers hoping to ape the success of the protests that have commandeered Liberty Plaza in Downtown Manhattan and are rapidly metastasising across the US.

A Facebook event page for the Melbourne arm, created by former Greens candidate Nick Carson, boasted 649 attendees as Crikey’s deadline approached this morning. An organising meeting was attended by about 30 people on Sunday, with minutes revealing that the nascent grouping “was not so much ‘anti-capitalism’ but [about] the fact that capitalism has gone wrong.”

One idea floated was that instead of being “‘anti-’ anything”, the group would be “pro-freedom/pro-humanity’” to keep “negativity away from the movement.” “I think it was fantastic that it spread virally.