Virtual Wall Street Protest in Blue Mars Light This Sunday

Angry at Wall Street but not physically near any of the real world protest sites that have sprung up in recent weeks? This Sunday at 1:00pm Pacific, there's going to be a virtual protest against Wall Street that will take place in Google Street Views' Wall Street. This is happening in Blue Mars Lite, the Mac/PC client which cleverly integrates avatars with photos from Google's map API. (As shown above.) The event is the brainchild of Jeremy Owen Turner (logging in from Canada) and Jacquelene Drinkall (logging in from Australia), and while it's not directly related to the actual protests happening now in downtown Manhattan, it does look like a pretty cool way to bring people around the world together into the same real time 3D space to share their outrage against Wall Street (and hopefully exchange productive practical, implementable plans to address it.) So far, folks from the UK, Netherlands, California, Hawaii, Italy, the Hague, and parts unknown plan to attend, so it's already going to be a globally diverse gathering. Go here to the event's Facebook page for more details.

Disclosure: I'm a former consultant for Avatar Reality, Blue Mars' developer.

Comments

[Scylla Rhiadra]

You might have also noted, Hamlet, that SL has its own event in solidarity with OWS -- and it's been ongoing for quite some time, rather than merely being a one-time event.

There's even a Facebook page for it:

https://www.facebook.com/OccupySL

[anotherdeadavatar]

Oh great, a virtual protest for the apathetic to support a protest about nothing. This is really getting to be beyond dumb.

[Woodie]

"Angry at Wall Street"... Yeah, nothing spells RAGE like SL avatars w00ting in ascii with audio from helium-addled 8-year olds. Get real.

An entire generation that actually, physically, has its head buried up its rear end. Astounding.

[foneco zuzu]

As long as ppl will protest, governments and the lobbies behind them, will see internet more and more as a menace to their power and will try to control it any way. facebook, Google plus, and so much more means to do so, will reveal their ultimate purpose then!
But the truth is that the systems is dying, slowly decaying, like the 2nd fall of Rome, and no real leaders that can make a difference.
Marx once said, capitalism will kill itselt!

[Arcadia Codesmith]

I'm impressed by the people who have skin in the game, especially with some of the fine Pigs of the NYPD getting increasingly out of control.

But if virtual supporters help get the message across, more power to them.

This is a country of the people, for the people and by the people... not the corporations, not the politicians, not the self-proclaimed reelmerkans.

If the powers that be need to be forcibly reminded of that every half century or so, we stand ready to remind them.

[foneco zuzu]

So true, so sadly forgotten;
Quote,
This is a country of the people, for the people and by the people.
Unquote, Arcadia Codesmith