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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

Social media has played an integral part in grassroots communication and participation. OWS began as a grassroots protest against the inequality, greed and corruption associated with the financial sector of the economy. CNBC’s Rick Santelli is widely credited with launching the grassroots movement. ning the Tea Party.

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Lobbying my rep about the Move to Amend project

Librarian.net

I want to live in a country where every person gets a vote and every non-person gets no votes.” It has to stop. And it’s a Vermont issue. Nearly one fifth of Vermont towns have passed resolutions at town meeting (over a decade ago) affirming that they feel money is not speech and corporations are not people.

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