Armed with this kind of data people started to deliberate, to really talk about which part of the agreement was good or bad. In the three occupied streets broadly speaking the separatists and independantists, the green people and the environmentalists, and the left people who would care about the worker’s rights - those are the three main concerns about this trade agreement. The trick is that these three people were not friends before the Occupy. They don’t usually talk to each other and there are a lot of schisms between those three camps are people. But because of the common interest and because of this deliberative framework and because whatever anybody said on one street is then transcribed and viewed on an another street people started getting more and more consensus by the end of the day. After the administration refused to meet with the student’s demands there was a massive protest and by that time everybody in Taiwan has seen our live broadcasts and transcripts. So on that day there was a half a million of people on the street - entire Taipei was full. When this many people came we had to find something useful from them to do. Depending on the side of the street they sat down with the environmentalists debating about the environmental impact. The leftist people started debating about the farmland, the farmer or about other kinds of impacts that this would eventually have and so on. And the separatists talked about the Constitution basically.

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