Tag: Occupy Wall Street
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Occupy Wall Street: I Took a Week Off from Classes for This?
September 17 – Occupy Wall St. begins in New York City’s Zuccotti Park. Mass media coverage, and the proliferation of social media based demonstrations allow for a presence strong enough to successfully “occupy” the park. Occupy movements spring up throughout the country, and parts of the world. September 25 – After about a week of increasing…
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Occupy Wall Street and the Unions
If the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests have not annoyed you yet, you aren’t talking to the right people. The protests have attracted flannel-clad hipsters decrying the Tea Party as “fascists,” sociology majors decrying contemporary science as “informed by matrices of Western oppression,” iPhone owners attacking corporate greed while mourning Steve Jobs, and, of course,…
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Occupy Wall Street Takes Over the Hudson Valley
Influenced by the social-media driven uprisings in Egypt and Iran, Occupy Wall Street is a revolutionary resistance movement that has received widespread attention and sparked Occupy movements throughout the country and the rest of the world. Here in New Paltz, social media has influenced the creation of Occupy Hudson Valley to demand change. Within the…