Saturday, December 1, 2012

Occupy Love: A Documentary to OWS. Media Response to the Documentary



In the video author of Sacred economics Charles Eisenstein explains the motives behind the movement.  He states that the movement "isn't about the 99% defeating or toppling the 1%...thats not what its about. What we want to create is the more beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible--a sacred world, a world that works for everybody. A world that is healing, a world of peace." During the video, it really showed a different side of the Occupy movement, a new kind of collective culture and spiritual element that the movement may have, despite the opposite view seen from the media.  What is adherent here is that there are two sides of views of a story in anything, and for the Occupy movement, the two sides are portrayed in the media.  One way is on the television through big corporate news organizations, the other is through the average citizen.  The average citizen can demonstrate their own take on an issue through various social media mediums.  This documentary, viewed on Youtube, has roughly 318,000 views, with 6,584 likes and 226 dislikes.  The amazing thing about Youtube is that it is an archive of collective videos easily accessible to watch.  Not only that, but it has a link for the video to be shared on other social media websites to increase the viewing count.  Spreading the word has never been more viral than today, and thats why Occupy Wall Street's Movement impacted so swiftly through the use of the social media.


Website: http://occupylove.org/

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