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"The Occupy Wall Street movement, a series of nationwide demonstrations that opposes corporate greed and social inequality, has caught fire this past week. \nProfessional unions joined with the protesters last week, including the United Auto Workers, the United Federation of Teachers and National Nurses United. Several political figures have shown support as well, such as Vice President Joe Biden and Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.  U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have both said that they sympathize with Occupy Wall Street protestors' feelings of anger towards big banks' role in the financial crisis.\nThe Occupy Wall Street movement began in July after anti-consumerist group Adbusters called for an occupation of Wall Street on Sept. 17. It quickly gained support from groups like Anonymous, who managed to slow and then shut down NYSE.com from about 3:35 p.m. to around 3:37 p.m. today.\nAround 1,000 protesters showed up for the first protest.  Over the subsequent four weeks, the protests have gained steam and have drawn the attention of the mainstream media. The protests have also expanded \u2014 about 1,400 Occupy Everywhere communities have taken form on Meetup.\nThe web chatter about #OccupyWallStreet has been significant as well and has been a large part of how the protesters have communicated. The protests were the subject of more than 0.5% of all tweets at its peak on Saturday, Oct. 1 according to Trendistic. \nOne Tumblr blog, We Are The 99 Percent, allows protesters and sympathizers to upload stories about why they protest, or why they support those who march. Most submissions include stories of financial and personal woes, as well as stories of how \"Corporate America\" has failed them in some way or another.  The protests have even spurred at least one Craigstlist Missed Connection: two people arrested together on the Brooklyn Bridge and were in neighboring jail cells afterwords. \nProtester videos and photos have also become widely circulated, most notably a video that quickly went viral on YouTube of alleged police brutality. The protesters have also created their own newspaper, called the Occupied Wall Street Journal. You can see the first edition of the publication here.\nAre you there? Please share any pictures you may have with the Mashable community by uploading to the widget below, or tell your story in the comments section. \n\n\nLoading ...\n(function() { var Olapic_ob = document.createElement('script'); Olapic_ob.type = 'text/javascript'; Olapic_ob.async = true; Olapic_ob.src = 'http://www.olapic.com/widget/render.js.php?data='+escape('{\"key\":\"be09e9d3c01f3d33c6c47ac72eba78ef65429637\",\"event_key\":\"xtvwbx\",\"origin_title\":\"'+escape(document.title)+'\",\"origin_url\":\"'+escape(document.location)+'\"}');(document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(Olapic_ob); })();\n\nSo you can get a scope of the protest, we have embedded a livestream below.  \nLivestream: Occupy Wall Street\n\n\nWatch live streaming video from globalrevolution at livestream.com\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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