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10/15/2011

Occupy Wall Street Hackathons Want to Build a Better Protest

Occupy Wall Street has an IT department. The movement’s technologists, like their park-squatting counterparts, are a decentralized group. But they’ve independently started hackathons this weekend in New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

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