Wall Street Journal - Social Media March on Wall Street - Twitter alone does not make a revolution.

[cyberpj]

They're doing all they can to make this look small and ridiculous:

Wall Street Journal - 1 hour ago
"Wall Street has survived much worse than some ragged protesters trying to occupy it."

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It must have seemed the perfect time for a social media-meets-political-protest moment. Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg said, "You have a lot of kids graduating college who can't find jobs. That's what happened in Cairo. That's what happened in Madrid. You don't want those kinds of riots here."

Some do. Editors at Adbusters, a Vancouver-based magazine (mission: "topple existing power structures") wanted to see if they could spark demonstrations just by posting the idea using social media. It created a Twitter topic with the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet, asking people to come to New York's Financial District to join what they said would be tens of thousands in a "leaderless resistance movement" objecting to banks, capitalism and other perceived evils. Egypt's Tahrir Square was cited as precedent.

The protests last week were a bust, but perhaps the young protesters learned a lesson: Just because it's on social media doesn't make it true.

A few hundred self-described "over-educated and under-employed" young people turned up for several days to camp out and carry cardboard signs. They occupied Zuccotti Park, a few blocks from Wall Street. This dislodged recent immigrants from their lunchtime chess matches and local teenagers from their evening skateboarding. New Yorkers mostly rolled their eyes, or as comedian Stephen Colbert put it, "If there's one thing New Yorkers never ignore, it's people sleeping in a park."

more:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903703604576588732138803702.html

[cyberpj]

1. p.s. Is #OccupyWallStreet stil blocked by Twitter? Just asking. Heard it was. nt

[ixion]

2. "The protests last week were a bust"

Only because the PEACEFUL demonstrators were busted up by fascist cops.

[The Traveler]

3. Always study the propaganda

In this case, the meme is "Nothing to see here. Move along. This is not the latent movement you are looking for."

[Fire Walk With Me]

9. ...

:thumbsup:

[StandingInLeftField]

4. The protesters are still there!

Live feed here: anonops.blogspot.com .

Rupert's WSJ can kiss my rosie socialist ass.

[cyberpj]

6. Yep. I just heard they're getting lots of money in donations AND that England is starting now too.

I think they're going to be at The Bank of England. (?)

[cyberpj]

5. This live stream site just announced $20,000.00 in donations. Also I saw text msg Bank of England

occupation starting up.

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

[sabrina 1]

7. Rupert still spewing the propaganda. The way we know it was a

huge success is directly related to the army of law-enforcement sent out to try to stop it. If it was just a few kids as they are trying to imply, they would have been gone by the end of last weekend, as predicted by the nay-sayers btw.

Instead it has grown with millions of supporters from around the country and the world. And this weekend, after the first brutal assault on them last Wednesday by the NYPD, the numbers at the protests increased as well as the number of other cities now planning similar occupations. 27 cities actually.

The way the MSM reacts can be used as a sign of how successful or not something that benefits the people might be. I'd say so far, considering the reaction of our Corporate owned media, and Rupert Murdoch, the occupiers of Wall Street have been hugely successful.

The Independent and Foreign media however has reported facts, by contrast.

[TBF]

8. The fact that the WSJ comments is music to my ears -

that's right fuckers - we're protesting here too. Glad you noticed and we're just getting started.

[Admiral Loinpresser]

10. What you said! n/t