Social Media Maps Provide Global View of Occupy Wall Street
One month after the first protesters showed up on Wall Street, similar movements have popped up in cities throughout the world — and many more are being planned or discussed. As "Occupy Wall Street" evolves into "Occupy Everywhere," several new services are mapping the social media chatter surrounding them. Similar to the dashboards news outlets like Al Jazeera and independent projects like IAmJan25 and HyperCities created to track social media surrounding the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street maps now show where relevant geotaged tweets, YouTube videos and Flickr images are being posted, in real time. "I don't really have a strong political opinion," says Humphrey Flowerdew, who started mapping Occupy Wall Street tweets on Cravify.com. "I'm just interested in technology and what practical things you can do with it." He and his partner Trung Huynh, who are both based in London, originally built Cravify to aggregate and map real estate listings.
Occupy Wall Street Protesters Get Their Day in Court | MetroFocus
What is an ACD? An adjournment contemplating dismissal, commonly referred to as an ACD, is a form of conditional probation. It is not an admission of guilt, nor is it an affirmation of innocence, Stolar explained. But ACDs do have other legal implications, he said, particularly for non-citizens and for people who may be involved in other types of criminal or civil cases. A defendant who accepts an offer of an ACD does not have to decide whether to plead guilty or not guilty. According to a source in the district attorney’s office, ACDs are typically offered to “first time offenders, who maybe didn’t make a great decision but who you know you are not going to be asking for jail time for” because it’s “not someone who benefits from being entered into the criminal justice system and [they] don’t deserve having a black mark on their record.” The second mass arrest of Occupy Wall Street protesters resulted in more than 700 arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 1. A chilling effect?
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The loose-knit protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street has stirred action from New York City to LA and spread overseas. Here we present an expanding map of protest hot spots and reported arrests, and track the movement's growth. Check back often for updates—and check out all the rest of MoJo's #OWS coverage here. Protests taking place beyond Manhattan: What began as a call for Americans to gather in New York's Financial District has given rise to like-minded actions nationwide and far beyond. Click on the dots for details from more than 462 locations and over 3,200 arrests (last updated: November 20, 9:30 p.m. Know of more locations for this map? Map production by Lauren Ellis, Samantha Oltman, and Tasneem Raja. How rich are the superrich? A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. A timeline of the Occupy Wall Street movement:
map: Thousands of students prepare to 'Occupy' colleges
LOS ANGELES (RNN) - College students across the country are preparing for Thursday's national day of protests in unity with the Occupy Wall Street movement. As of Wednesday evening, 90 colleges were confirmed for Occupy College's "National Student Solidarity Protest," according to the group's website. Natalia Abrams, a spokeswoman and facilitator for the group, expects the number to surpass 100. This will be the second protest of the fledgling group, which sponsored a walk-out on college campuses Oct. 5. Thursday's protests are planned for 4:30 p.m. ET. [SLIDESHOW: Occupy Wall Street protests spread] "It's not specifically a walk-out, because we don't want to confuse the protest," Abrams said about the new Occupy Colleges event. Instead, participating colleges are encouraged to host sit-ins and readings, in which they can spread awareness about the Occupy Wall Street movements and how they can become involved at a grassroots level. Abrams also has a message to deliver to skeptics.
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Next meeting of GlobalSquare (also known as Occupy the WSF initiative) Our next meeting Date: Thursday, 17th of January 2013Time: 19.00 GMT in Mumble, for other locations please use the time zone converterLocation: Occupytalk.org server, room: Assemblies & Round Tables > OPEN SPACEPad for agenda and minutes: (add your proposals here) About our initiative From 26-30 March 2013 the World Social Forum (WSF) will take place in Tunis. To discuss and organize our participation in the WSF, we started an open communication process through regular online meetings and a mailing list, building a space open to a variety of initiatives, gathering particularly participants from the various movements mostly emerged throughout the year 2011 (Tunisia, Egypt, Senegal, Morocco, Spain, Chile, United States, Quebec, etc). The coming months we will continue to develop these plans. How to use Mumble How to get involved
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How big are the Occupy Wall Street protests on Facebook? The Huffington Post analyzed the state of activism on Facebook in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests. Over 450,000 Facebook users have joined Facebook pages related to the protests so far. These Facebook pages, found via DailyKos, show the extent to which Occupy Wall Street activity is sprouting up throughout the country on Facebook. The main Occupy Wall Street page not surprisingly is the largest page with over 125,000 likes. The map below exhibits the locations and sizes of the pages. NOTE: This data is current as of October 6. If you've been to an Occupy Wall Street event anywhere in the country, we'd like to hear from you.
