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‘A Giant Human Hashtag’

Learning and the #Occupy Movement

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Learnning and Educationfor a Bettter World

Part of the book series: International Issues in adult Education ((ADUL,volume 10))

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‘Are you ready for a Tahrir moment? On September 17, we want to see 20,000 people flood into Lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy wall street for a few months…’. So read the challenge issued by AdBusters, the Vancouver based cultural activists in their blog of July 13, 2011. They provided the original #OCCUPYWALLSTREET hashtag and a poster of a ballerina dancing on the back of the charging wall street bull.

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  1. University of Victoria, Canada

    Budd L. Hall

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    Budd L. Hall

  2. University of Victoria, Canada

    Darlene E. Clover

  3. The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Jim Crowther

  4. Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

    Eurig Scandrett

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Hall, B.L. (2012). ‘A Giant Human Hashtag’. In: Hall, B.L., Clover, D.E., Crowther, J., Scandrett, E. (eds) Learnning and Educationfor a Bettter World. International Issues in adult Education, vol 10. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-979-4_9

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