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People have been working to develop “high-tech tools to help coordinate demonstrations that protesters will execute this spring and summer. From Internet maps tracking police barricades to a fundraising website, protesters said the technology will help sustain the movement as it moves away from a collection of encampments and spontaneous protests—an Occupy 2.0.”