So it's Friday, and I'm sitting at work bored because there's no work for me to do. So I've been working on school work (the perks of an on campus job). I did some work for our group project "Doorsclosing". I created a Facebook page, worked on our Wordpress, and wrote a submission for my portion of our…

Sitting in Bruce Evensen's 501 class and we are watching clips of WCTU and their non-violent protest against alcohol. Hearing about this nation wide protest reminded me of the different #occupy that are taking place around the globe currently. So what if WCTU's protest took place today instead of the early 1870s. What would it look like? Would it have made a bigger impact than it did then?

Social media also played a big part on the #occupy being a world wide movement. I also wonder if…

Occupy Chicago is a movement that has formed in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests in New York City. The movement started to protest Wall Street and it's corrupt ways. Occupy Wall Street is a "leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions." The thing that they all have in common..."They are the…

Occupy Wall Street reach mainstream media because of an isolated event that happened in New York. The YouTube video, where the police were pepper spraying protesters, has spread like wild-fire and has brought awareness to the issue. However, as Chicago jumps on the bandwagon it is lacking some of the fundamental organizational tools, which the New York protesters have utilized. Compared to New York, Chicago is lacking the sheer number of people and support from groups like Union…

There was a server lack of media coverage at the Chicago protest today.  What I found particularly interesting was a week ago the protests in New York City received a substantial amount of media coverage.  However, it was also the lack of organization that might be to blame.  Given that the majority of the people in attendance didn't really know why they were attending made it an almost lackluster protest that didn't really seem to have a real meaning.  Many people were giving different…