Update on Occupy Wall Street March 2012 Use The #OccupyWallStreet Hashtag On Twitter #OWS

Have you ever gone to the fair or circus and walked into a tent or funny house where you look into a mirror and hundreds of mirrors reflect back at you? How do you know which reflection to believe as the real you?

At first, we saw the protestors using their cameras and cellphones to record and document their actions and the actions of the guards and police. Everyone needs to have their presence and reality of the event documented in case of jail lock up or a court case.

The masses of depressed and irate civilians gather together to state their feelings and opinions mostly because they don't feel their needs have been met or their voices heard as reflected in the actions of Congress and decisions of elected representatives

They show their situation by bringing their living rooms to the banking industry, and hope to confront their oppressors. Instead, they contend with anxious police officers who mill about the crowd and the echoing chants. Just five persons were arrested.

The NYPD have been well trained and it appears they remain calm. I notice the police recording the incidence and the people with their cameras to defend their position, too. I feel badly for the police that they must deal with these situations because American lives at stake have not been cared for properly through the legal system. The bail out to the banks profited only the higher echelon and elite, rather than dispersing funds to those in need and helping people find reasonable housing, and assisting with jobs.

Our skewed and screwed up understanding of economics, politics and the trends of industry and business has brought us down further than we've ever been before. In my humble opinion, I don't think anyone has an answer.

If a group of people can invent an iPad and iPhone that can condense every technological gadget into a tiny little hand held computer, which in the past would have filled many buildings worth of massive computers, I believe we must put our heads together and get out of this twisted maze of debt and unsustainable living.

• The video below from March 15, 2012, Occupy Wall Street as a peaceful protest against the BAC (Bank of American Corporation) illustrates the chanting voices and the sit in.
• People brought living room furniture to show they need someplace to live and like a symbol or mock eviction, the furniture was confiscated by the police.
• The people marched through New York's Financial District.
• The march culminated in a foreclosure of a branch of Bank of America by the people.
• Occupiers set up residence on the bank's sidewalk, until they were evicted by the NYPD.
• At least five arrests were made.
• One friend sent me a Twit Video, but they cannot be posted here on Hubpages.

This Hubpages can be read to learn about The Occupy Wallstreet Movement or to improve your social networking skills on Twitter. Study how to effectively use microblogging and hashtags through a real life example. See how crowd sourcing of information can make videos go viral. Learn how people change when they gather on-mass. Discover how when forces pit themselves against one another their emotions and behaviors change and escalate. Listen to the voices. Watch the people's body language on both sides: police and civilians.

• The picture below shows a tweet from the OccupyWallStreetNYC organization
• Further along you can learn about the many hashtags to aggregate and make it easy for you to search for OWS activities.
• See how you can learn about the leaders of this movement and the voices of supporters or those against the occupiers.
• Notice how this type of protest movement has gathered steam and people not only in all U.S. States have become involved, but even people in many countries around the world.

Working America | Add your signature. Add your voice. Put down on paper what you think this government needs to do to help America get on track. Here's your chance to add to the list of items for Occupy Wallstreet.

Peaceful Protest in on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City

This date October 1, 2011 will be remembered for a peaceful, yet disturbing, protest by about 1500 members of the community of Brooklyn, New York as they gathered and were entrapped on the bridge by New York City #NYPD police. The Brooklyn Bridge was closed to all traffic that day. Approximately 400 were arrested this day.

Learning How To Use Twitter Hashtags

I first learned about the New York City Protest of the 99% while on Twitter and two friends started to use the hashtag #occupywallstreet. The value and importance of this event should not be overlooked. Simultaneously, you could be on Twitter getting immediate updates from people on the scene, or retweets from others tuning in via different communication channels.

The days activity does not end when the people are rounded up or sent home to scatter to their respective abodes. I'm wondering how people will travel around the neighborhoods in the city that never sleeps? I'm tuning in to the many reports, reruns, editorials, opinion pieces and the aftermath of legal implications. i can provide still frames of my twitter feed.

Democracy Now Live Audio Stream Broadcast

While I was listening to DemocracyNow, it came to my awareness that the same voice and report was repeating over and over again. Thus, we listen to the anxious frenzied voice of mass hysteria saying, "the crowd is being pushed back by the police." As in a sit-down protest, the people chant their message, then stand up, link arms and see if they can walk off the bridge without being rounded up or harmed.

• Inspired by the massive public protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and Madrid’s Puerta del Sol Square, hundreds have camped out in a square near Wall Street since Sept. 17, 2011, as part of a campaign dubbed "Occupy Wall Street." The encampment began after a protest that attracted thousands of people and has spawned several marches, including one near Union Square that resulted in 80 arrests. Video posted online from the protest shows a police office pepper-spraying a group of young women while they were surrounded by a police netting.
• LIVE GLOBAL AND STATE STREAM FOR OCCUPY WALLSTREET

I was watching the Live Video Streaming on GlobalRevolution

You could not miss the absence of mainstream media to cover this historic event. Now you can read an article on the New York Times which gets updated from time to time, but is not on the front page of the paper. Police Arrest About 500 Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge By AL BAKER and COLIN MOYNIHAN

Presently GlobalRevolution is broadcasting live from NewYorkCity Liberty Park where leaders. get up on the podium and speak or lead the crowd in chants or echos. The feeds get interrupted and lose signal. In addition to the video, the live stream of people chatting goes very quickly.

The people of the United States have been fomenting this grassroots displeasure about the government actions to resolve our ever increasing problems in local, state, federal and world affairs.

Learning from FLASH MOB events which began as entertainment and has turned into political action, people have used technology to organize, find like-minded people, support each other to create change from the bottom up and get their representatives in government, hopefully, to listen.

Gawker Dot Com Records The BK Protest

Gawker.com | Records an eye-witness report of the events of this day. Questions I want answered:

• Why did the police use the tactic to entrap by "kettling" or blocking off the protesters on all sides while on the bridge?
• What purpose does that serve, except to be able to 'tag' and identify the people who participated and take them off to the police station?
• Were the police planning to round up hundreds of people with all the busses waiting?

Follow The Money To WallStreet

This peaceful protest of the people was a culmination of 15-days of protesting the way this country handled the economic downturn by giving away unsupervised billions of dollars to the wealthy.

Hundreds of arrests were made including one of a young girl and New York Times freelance journalist Natasha Lennard. On twitter another journalist tweeted that the police cannot arrest reporters for the media news.

History In The Making

The important piece of information about this protest in my opinion is the way the world can follow minute by minute history in the making. We can even be a part of this event via the internet. And, everything we hear being said, the people-in-the-street's twitpic photographs, satellite photos of the Brooklyn Bridge and surrounding areas, City CAM Cameras, all of the audio feeds from telephones and the livestreams and feed videos all document this event for historians to evaluate and determine what actually happened from many vantage points.

Personally, I was sending text messages to family letting them know the events while they were happening, making sure everyone was safe. Wondering what will happen next?

What We Can Learn About Social Networking

You can follow an event and conversations, plus trending topics [more about that later] by clicking the colored #hashtag of a word or phrase. Become part of the action, even if you do not live in the area. Connect with people who are on the scene. Inform others what is happening and why it is important.

Twitter Is Special

Possible Hashtags. Remember that Twitter limits to 140 characters meaning the shorter the Hashtag the more other information, profile names and retweets may be created.

• #occupywallstreet
• #occupywallst
• #BKBridge
• #OWS

Making Memories

Apathy may be one of the worst things that can happen to humanity. With the internet children, students and adults become participants in the form of observers. We know in physics that the observer can change the outcome of the movement of particles. In the same way, our group energy can make this event peaceful or non-peaceful.

At first, I had no idea what was going on. This history lesson in the making, got me interested and involved in our world. People were cheering and even chiming in on the Live Chat from what state they shouted their support. I sent tweets of #peace, others remarked #freedom. Becoming part of the group experience took the better part of the day and night to follow and explains why Twitter can be so addictive.

• Dark Rainy Nite in NY #OccupyWallStreet You can call the National Lawyer's Guild in NYC if you're arrested. (212) 679-6018 RT @wilw
• Mass arrests of peaceful protestors Brooklyn Bridge. No mainstream media would notice? #occupy #occupywallstreet RT @RayBeckerman @PennyRe

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In Social Media take advantage of the many opportunities to meet like-minded people and connect with them. Start a conversation or retweet a message that resonates with you. Here are some of the Twitter Peeps from that day you may want to meet.

• http://www.twitter.com/RDevro
• http://www.twitter.com/AP
• http://www.twitter.com/YokoOno
• http://www.twitter.com/SunTimes
• http://www.twitter.com/DanTanner
• http://www.twitter.com/MJDub
• http://www.twitter.com/UncleRush
• http://www.twitter.com/TalkMaster
• http://www.twitter.com/SinkDeep
• http://www.twitter.com/PoliticolNews
• http://www.twitter.com/NewYorkPost
• http://www.twitter.com/USAShopper
• http://www.twitter.com/NatashaLennard
• http://www.twitter.com/AllisonKilkenny
• http://www.twitter.com/JayRosen_NYU
• http://www.twitter.com/PourMeCoffee
• http://www.twitter.com/RayBeckerman

• Question More NEWS | Watch this news report to understand what motivated so many people to protest this way.
• YouTube Video Mass Arrest at Occupy Wall Street Including Young Girl
• Declaration of The Occupation of New York City | The Official Website of the GA at #OccupyWallStreet

You can see the importance of such a globally broadcast event for the people to voice their opinions and concerns in order to be heard.

You can see that the news is manipulated, covered up, and we don't get the full story unless someone sticks their neck out. We saw this with #occupywallstreet not trending and the everyone looking for the mainstream media to show up and report the news.

January 30, 2012 Update on Occupy Wallstreet - Violence in the streets of Oakland