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Is it really a hostile community or is it a community reacting with hostility?

Bang the Table

community members have started their own website, taking petitions door to door, leafleting the neighborhood and holding meetings in the park. This can be difficult to implement, however, where political careers are at stake or there is a perception that an apology equates to legal liability for all associated impacts.

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Using Data to Prevent the Loss of Home Equity in New York City

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

22 It grants co-owners a right of first refusal to buy out the petitioning owner’s share within 45 days before considering a partition in kind (physical division of the property) or a partition by sale of the property.

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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

Jodi Dean (2005) says that slacktivism results in post-politics: “Busy people can think they are active – the technology will act for them, alleviating their guilt while assuring them that nothing will change too much. […] By sending an e-mail, signing a petition, responding to an article on a blog, people can feel political.