Download pdf - We are the Uninvited': Occupation, Activism, and the Canadian Media

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“The fire in the soul of Occupy burns from Oakland to Quebec, Barcelona to Chicago, Wall Street to Moscow and Frankfurt… now the Zuccotti model is morphing and Occupy is undergoing a period of sustained global tactical innovation. This is all just the beginning…” https://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet

Zapatistas Revolution State of Chiapas, 1994

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TRANSNATIONAL ZAPATISMO HAS BECOME A REAL WORLD EVENT. FUELED BY DIGITAL ACTIVISM, IT IS AN ONLINE TOOL THAT MOBILIZES FOR REAL POLITICAL CHANGE OFFLINE

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HACKTIVISM IS BORN OUT OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPER CARMIN KARASIC’S OUTRAGE AT THE ACTEAL MASSACRE

http://www.thing.net/~rdom/ecd/floodnet.html

Indymedia was a precursor to Web 2.0. It was social media that was driven by a desire for social justice rather than for profit or surveillance (1997)

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Pussy Riot Members of Anonymous (wearing Guy Fawkes masks)

Anonymous’s masks evoke Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s comic strip, V for Vendetta (1982-85), set in a post-apocalyptic British police state

As the Zapatistas have explained, “We were invisible and forgotten in Chiapas, but when the Zapatistas put on masks,

all of a sudden everyone could see us” (Stringer 6119-6120).

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RISE OF A NEW VOCABULARY FROM “INDIGNADOS” TO “THE 99%” TO “#OCCUPY” TO “GLOBAL NOISE” TO “#UPSETTLERS”

A former government of Canada Fisheries Library

Toronto Star, 12 Jan 2014: http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/01/12/thats_no_way_to_treat_a_library_scientists_say.html

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Death of Evidence protests: scientists march on Ottawa

CBC.ca 10 July 12: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/death-of-scientific-evidence-mourned-on-parliament-hill-1.1218019

CANADIAN/AMERICAN BORDER AT SARNIA, ONTARIO • JANUARY 5TH, 2013

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION • ROUND DANCE, TORONTO CITY HALL • 28 JANUARY 2013

GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION PARLIAMENT, HALIFAX, CANADA JAN 28, 2013

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Carolyn Guertin, PhD Fine Arts,

York University, Toronto, Canada

& Transart Institute Berlin, Germany

Contact: Email:

[email protected] Skype: carolyn_guertin

Continuum International Publishers, 2012

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The Lapine, http://thelapine.ca/harper-worried-pussy-riots-could-break-out-across-canada/, 23 Feb 14