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Headlines
[|Here Are Four Charts That Explain What The Protesters Are Angry About] [|The 99 percent] [|Occupy Wall Street's Open-Source To-Do List] [|Occupy_Wall_Street_is_winning - Politico] [|Occupy Wall Street: Can filmmaking website unify the movement? - CS Monitor] [|The origins and future of Occupy Wall Street]

Blogs
http://occupyblogosphere.wordpress.com

Storify
http://storify.com/adbusters/oct-8-updates-on-occupywallstreet

Twitter
[|#occupywallstreet]

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_are_the_99%25

**Jay Rosen** http://jayrosen.tumblr.com http://twitter.com/#!/jayrosen_nyu

Susan Webber (Yves Smith)
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com - http://twitter.com/yvessmith [|Conversation with Susan Webber (Yves Smith) - Le Show] [|On #OccupyWallStreet and the Power of Open Source and Consensual Processes]

Wiki
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Quotes
We are witnessing America's first true Internet-era movement which does not take its cue from a charismatic leader, express itself in bumper-sticker-length goals and understand itself as having a particular endpoint. ... unlike a political campaign designed to get some person in office and then close up shop, this is not a movement with a traditional narrative arc. As the product of the decentralized networked-era culture, it is less about victory than sustainability. It is not about one-pointedness, but inclusion and groping toward consensus. It is not like a book; it is like the Internet. - [|Douglas Rushkoff], cited in [|How Occupy Wall Street Is Like the Internet]

Thanks to social media, Occupy Wall Street moved to the front page of mainstream media. Regardless of the size of the movement itself, OWS has used social media to stake a claim to the American consciousness, further challenging the value of traditional media eyeballs in today’s society. Yes, the goal may have been media exposure, but what they achieved was a change in American consciousness. I witnessed this at eMetrics New York while talking to some folks from att.com. The conversation turned from measurement to OWS — and they decided to head downtown to join the movement. - [|Six Recent Events that Signal a Public Relations Measurement Spring]

Revolutions always begin, he wrote, by making impossible demands that if the government met would mean the end of the old configurations of power. The second stage, the one we have entered now, is the unsuccessful attempt by the power elite to quell the unrest and discontent through physical acts of repression. - Crane Brinton, Anatomy of a Revolution (cited in Chris Hedges' [|This Is What Revolution Looks Like])

Brad Hunstable started Ustream, an online video platform, with a fellow West Point graduate back in 2007 to help American troops overseas communicate with multiple friends and family members at the same time. It was not long before its uses extended well beyond the military.Enlarge This ImageRobert Caplin for The New York TimesLivestream, based in New York, has about 120 employees.Enlarge This ImageRobert Stolarik for The New York TimesGlobal Revolution, on Livestream, operates out of Brooklyn.Celebrities, politicians and organizers of events like rock concerts and high school football games soon discovered that streaming services offered by Ustream and the other leading start-up provider, Livestream, could help expand their audience online. Now, the huge amount of user-generated live video produced by the Occupy Wall Street movement has delivered what could be a watershed moment for these companies, potentially helping them gain the audience needed to become viable businesses. - [|Occupy Video Showcases Live Streaming]

Media Analysis
[|CNN's Kosik Regrets Occupy Wall Street Tweet As Industry Criticism Mounts] [|Jon Stewart: How Is Occupy Wall Street Not Like The Tea Party?]

Elsewhere on the Web
http://www.alternet.org http://pressthink.org - http://twitter.com/#!/jayrosen_nyu http://occupywallst.org http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/136399/michael-hardt-and-antonio-negri/the-fight-for-real-democracy-at-the-heart-of-occupy-wall-street http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

Slideshare
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Recommended Listening
[|Bruce Shapiro] - Bruce Shapiro discusses the latest from Wall Street. He looks at the extraordinary events of the last few weeks - the number of Occupy sites around the country, including his hometown of New Haven where 1,000 people marched and set up on the New Haven Green over the weekend.

[|Occupy: a global moment or a movement?] - It started with a bang in Wall Street and spread to over a hundred cities worldwide. But, as the novelty wears off, the tent city occupations are facing their own crunch time with the weather, the police and internal disagreements threatening their survival.

[|The Year in Review] - In a rare get-together, LNL regulars discuss the international and local events and issues of the past year.

Flickr
[|Occupy movement on the Flickr map] The Occupy Wall Street Movement has grown to include occupations in cities all over the United States and the World. Did you know you can use the Flickr map to find out what other cities are being occupied and see images from the protests?

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