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The Beginning Of The Beginning

From the Occupy Wall Street website: "On November 17th, tens of thousands of people peacefully gathered in Foley Square in solidarity with #OWS. It was a powerful night of music, chant, and protest. We marched across the Brooklyn Bridge finding strength in our numbers and inspiration in our shared resolve to challenge the neoliberal economic system that controls our government and destroys our communities. As we marched a beautiful light appeared in downtown Manhattan...."

This video takes you backstage to where the "Bat Signal" was beaming a powerful set of messages onto the Verizon building in Manhattan at 140 West Street.

"99% / MIC CHECK! / LOOK AROUND / YOU ARE A PART / OF A GLOBAL UPRISING / WE ARE A CRY / FROM THE HEART / OF THE WORLD / WE ARE UNSTOPPABLE / ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE / HAPPY BIRTHDAY / #OCCUPY MOVEMENT / OCCUPY WALL STREET / list of cities, states and countries / OCCUPY EARTH / WE ARE WINNING / IT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING / DO NOT BE AFRAID / LOVE."

Mark Read, who organized the "bat-signal" project, told the website www.BoingBoing.net:

"The whole thing was a combination of high tech and super jerry-rigging on the fly. The Modul8 software we were using can do amazing things: sense the angle you're projecting at, even if it's extreme, and modify the image so it looks straight. But then, we held the projector in place with gaffer tape, a broomstick, some baling wire. We only had 20 minutes to get it ready."

The magic of these projected messages on that historic night lives on, and continues to inspire!


--Bibi Farber

This film come courtesy of www.occupytvny.org

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