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Occupy, the Internet, Direct Democracy, and the lessons learnt

Introduction The first formal Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protest took place on September 17 2011 attracting around 1000 activists,[1] the march was instigated by an article from Adbusters magazine[2] which originally challenged citizens to start a popular uprising with a “million man march on Wall Street”[3] then later asked its readers to “flood into lowerContinue reading “Occupy, the Internet, Direct Democracy, and the lessons learnt”