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Occupy Wall St. LIVE FROM THE OCCUPATIONS OF NEW YORK CITY. Occupy Wall Street (OccupyWallSt) OccupyStream - All Occupy Wall Street Streams and IRC - Live Revolution. All Live Streams. Globalrevolution. Connect. Collaborate. Organize. Occupy Wall St. How Occupy Wall Street Occupied Twitter, Too. Television cameras and and newspapers have chronicled the so-called Occupy Wall Street protest movement as it has grown into a global phenomenon. But what has it looked like online? Thanks to a start-up called SocialFlow, and tons of Twitter data, we can actually see how the idea propagated through influential people and organizations, and across previously invisible conduits to permeate vast expanses of Twitter’s network.

The first ever use of the #OccupyWallStreet hashtag was in an Adbusters blog post, way back on July 13, according to Gilad Lotan, SocialFlow’s head of research and development. The network of tweeters using the hashtag was small and sparse in the beginning, with no major media entities yet participating in the conversation. Above is network graph showing all tweets containing the #OccupyWallStreet 10 days after the first use of the hashtag. Chaîne de OccupyTV. Occupy Wall St Bend Oregon www.occupybend.org. Occupy together. Occupy Together (OccupyTogether) Occupy Together. Occupy Together: how the global movement is spreading via social media. At the beginning of October last year Malcolm Gladwell wrote in the New Yorker that activism via social media was no more than "weak-tie connections" which "makes it easier for activists to express themselves, and harder for that expression to have any impact".

Occupy Together: how the global movement is spreading via social media

One year on, with #arabspring uprisings changing governments in north Africa and #OccupyWallStreet drawing the attention of senior Republicans and Democrats, the #globaldemocracy movement is gaining momentum via Twitter and Facebook. Now protests are planned for Saturday in four continents, I wonder if Gladwell will rethink the power of social networked activism. Occupy Wall Street spread virally across the United States, and more recently a number of UK events have sprung up on Facebook, leading to the first protest events in England and the rest of Europe this weekend.

Occupy London Stock Exchange appeared on Facebook under the mantra "It's time to say enough is enough" – with just over 13,000 likes at the time of writing. Chaîne de OccupyTVNY. OccupyNYC. Occupy Wall Street: News & Videos about Occupy Wall Street - CNN.com. OCCUPY.COM. #OCCUPYWALLSTREET (occupywallstnyc) Occupy Earth (occupyearth) Hrwaldram/october-15 - Following... TeaWithCarl/occupy - Following...

Scoop.it indignés▝ Occupy_together. The Occupy Movement and Related Issues. Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99% Protesters volunteering for the internet and information boards of the Occupy Wall Street protest work and broadcast from their media center in Zuccotti Plaza on Oct. 2, 2011.

Occupy Geeks Are Building a Facebook for the 99%

Photo: Bryan Derballa for Wired.com “I don’t want to say we’re making our own Facebook. But, we’re making our own Facebook,” said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer who joined a team of activist-geeks redesigning social networking for the era of global protest. They hope the technology they are developing can go well beyond Occupy Wall Street to help establish more distributed social networks, better online business collaboration and perhaps even add to the long-dreamed-of semantic web — an internet made not of messy text, but one unified by underlying meta-data that computers can easily parse. [bug id="occupy"]The impetus is understandable.

Now it’s time for activists to move beyond other people’s social networks and build their own, according to Knutson. Federated General Assembly - Aperçu - OWS Project Tracker. The Federated General Assembly (FGA) is an open source, distributed social platform designed to support the Occupy movement by allowing people and groups to collaborate, share their activities and ideas, with an overall emphasis on meaning, value, and trust. See the Introduction for a high-level overview of the project goals, and Getting Started for info on getting involved.

Subprojects: FGA - Events & Meetings, FGA Devops, #OWSdirectory, FGA Project site Members. The Global Square: an online platform for our movement. A proposal on how to perpetuate the creative and cooperative spirit of the occupations and transform them into lasting forms of social organization.

The Global Square: an online platform for our movement

This is a proposal made by a group of concerned global citizens who also act as volunteers for Take the Square, United for Global Change, 15october.net, European Revolution and Reflections on a Revolution (ROAR). We do not pretend to represent or speak on behalf of anyone but ourselves. The Global Square: Towards an Online Platform for the Occupy Movement In its most recent tactical briefing for the Occupy movement, Adbusters correctly pointed out that, “of the many questions swirling around #OCCUPY, the most challenging is how to gel into a global movement without sacrificing the decentralized, leaderless model.”

How, in other words, can we perpetuate the creative and cooperative spirit of the occupations and transform them into lasting forms of social organization — at the global as well as the local level? In solidarity, Reflections on a Revolution. Chaîne de OccupyLSX. PopularResistance.Org. The Occupied Wall Street Journal. AvaazWallStreet.