Occupy the Internet
Speaker · Lecture · Green Festival · San Francisco, CA · November 2011
How the Occupy movement started, grew and sustained itself online: hashtags, websites, livestreams, crowd-funded ads and newspapers, video and infographics.
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- #OccupyTheInternet How the Occupy Movement Started, Grew and Will Sustain Using the Power of the Internet by JoeyShepp.com
- Presenter • JoeyShepp.com • Dominican University Sustainability Programs Director • Earthsite Founder and Principle Consultant
- The Occupy Movement • Started with Wall Street, but applies to all injustices • Reclaiming rights, property, capital • Moving Beyond fear, Uniting Humanity
- Why Occupy the Internet? • Winter is Coming • Free, Distributed, Accessible, Powerful • Bearing Witness • A Global Movement • For the 90% who won’t Camp
- #OccupyWallStreet The Hashtag that Started a Revolution
- Kalle Lasn Co-Founder Adbusters
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- "No one owns a (Twitter) hashtag, it has no leadership, it has no organization, it has no creed but it's quite appropriate to the architecture of the net. This is a distributed revolt," ~Jeff Jarvis, a journalism professor at City University of New York
- #OccupyWallStreet
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- #occupywallstreet #ows #occupywallst #occupy #occupyboston #takewallstreet #p2 #nypd 100,000 Ways to Spell Revolution
- #OccupyWebsites
- Occupy Consensus
- OccupationaList Aggregator
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- #OccupyMedia
- Occupy Livestream
- Occupy Live Channels
- Loudsauce Community Funded Ads Reach Millions
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- Occupy Wall Street Commercial • $6,000 crowd sourced • Google TV Ad Network • Ran on the O'Reilly Factor on Fox • Reached Millions
- Occupy Wall Street Newspaper Raises $54,000 on Kickstarter
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- Community Funded Reporting
- 40,000 YouTube Videos
- #OccupyInfoGraphics
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- #OccupyDemocracy
- #OccupyPolls
- #OccupyPetitions
- Some serious issues…
- And some extra terrestrial issues…
- #OccupyCorporations
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- #OccupyEverything (That Matters)
- How YOU can #OccupyTheInternet • Support Tech at Camps • Join Hackathons • Watch Live Feeds • Submit and Vote on Petitions • Document Video • Share News
- Resources
- Twitter Accounts @JoeyShepp @Earthsite @SocialGoodMedia
- Tweet me your Questions @JoeyShepp [Your Question]
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