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Time Lapse: Mapping the Global Protests and Uprisings

John Caelan from the website The Swamp Post has created a couple of time-lapse videos that map protests from December 18 to March 7, 2011, where the protests and uprisings can be seen spreading out into different countries.

The colors are Red: resulting in death, Orange: major injuries, damage, arrests, Yellow: minor injuries, etc. Green: Peaceful...the number of pickets is the size, 1: Under 100, 2: 100-1000 3: 1000-10000 4. 10K - 100K, 5. Over 100K.

There's also an interactive map of the protests.
entr0pysays...

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:

What were the east coast US flags about? I don't remember any revolts besides the ones up north.


The project isn't just about revolts, they track protests for any cause, with any number of people (even less than 100). The only limiting factors are that someone bothers to add the event to the map, and that they can link to a source. If someone bothered to add them, you'd see 6 markers a day from the Westburo Baptist church alone.

Ideally whoever did the timelapse should have removed all the very minor protests (it only tracks maybe 1% of those globally anyway). And also all of the grey signs, those show protest that are over, but took place in the last week. Which is useful for the daily map, but just confusing on a timelapse.

I guess if you're going to get anything out of the timelapse, notice the red and orange signs, those show incidences of fatal violence (red) and serious injury (orange).

Ornthoronsays...

@NetRunner: You might want to include the uploader's description of the different colours in the video description:

"The colors are Red: resulting in death, Orange: major injuries, damage, arrests, Yellow: minor injuries, etc. Green: Peaceful...the number of pickets is the size, 1: Under 100, 2: 100-1000 3: 1000-10000 4. 10K - 100K, 5. Over 100K."

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