Washington Square -- "Welcome to the Paradigm Shift"

This mobilization is inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia, Britain and Egypt.  It is birthed by the surplus of talented individuals and students; those underemployed have found their occupation.  It is operated by a digital infrastructure; integrated and ubiquitous, this very medium for oppression has now been inverted into a means for activism.

Only minutes after the occupation of Times Square, people began trickling in to Washington Square Park.  Some took subways, some walked, some drove from North Carolina and caught a subway from their friend's apartment in Brooklyn--the trickle grew into a flood. 

After over 10,000 shutdown Times Square, the Washington Square crowd approached 3,000

A peaceful Police Officer looks on as a child partakes in the demonstration

In OWS' Standard Operating Procedure (and yes, there is one), the 9pm General Assembly was broadcast around the world, via livestream.  The viewership was lower than normal, as many viewers were busy demonstrating--a bridge from cyberspace to cityspace. 

Democracy unfurled, as a banner reads, "Welcome to the Paradigm Shift"

A paradigm shift has occured for our generation.  Masses of educated and employed persons, as well as disaffected citizens, have begun a mobilization.  This mobilization is inspired by the uprisings in Tunisia, Britain and Egypt.  It is birthed by the surplus of talented individuals and students; those underemployed have found their occupation.  It is operated by a digital infrastructure; integrated and ubiquitous, this very medium for oppression has now been inverted into a means for activism.  No longer will disenchanted Americans default to cynicism; no longer will the marginalized masses be muted. 

"To the extent to which the work world is conceived of as a machine and mechanized accordingly, it becomes the potential basis of a new freedom of man." --Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man