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Occupy Wall Street Protests Spread to The Bronx

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Occupy Protesters at Fordham Plaza
Occupy the Bronx General Assembly
Young Protester
Protester
Occu-pie
Occupy
NYPD at Occupy the Bronx
Babies Against Greed
Protesters begin March
NYPD march escort
Boarding the Subway

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Dozens of people gathered at Fordham Plaza on Saturday to participate in Occupy Wall Street protests that have spread to the Bronx.

Protesters came together to voice their concerns about a variety of social and economic issues.

“I think that this is a great opportunity for the people of the Bronx to get together and form an alliance with others, for us to really get out there and to be able to start demanding what it is that we should have had all the time, which is our fair share of resources,” said facilitator Lisa Ortega.

Ortega said it was only a matter of time before the movement spread to the Bronx which contains the country’s poorest congressional district.

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Social Media Diary

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  • On September 22nd, I posted my question on Twitter and linked to my blog post in the following tweet:

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I used the hashtags #USPS, #postoffice, #SouthBronx, #Bronx, and #jobs as they seemed like they were the most relevant that would garner the most amount of hits.  I however failed in attracting any response.

After I didn’t receive any reply to this either, I started to wonder if there were better hashtags for the Bronx and the South Bronx, and found out that people use #bx as a Bronx hashtag.

I tried using some other hashtags, and rephrasing my query in order to attract possibly business owners in the South Bronx.  I still did not unfortunately receive any response. Because so much of the South Bronx’s population is living under the poverty line, I think it is safe to assume that a lot of them have very limited internet access. A lot of the unemployed people of the South Bronx (who are the people who I am most interested in speaking with, in all likely-hood do not peruse Twitter).

  • On October 5th, I posted the following on Flickr to promote my question and blog post:

I posted my question and link in the description of the photo, and added relevant tags (Melrose, South Bronx, Post Office, USPS…).