Vancouver Riot Cleanup Organized Through Facebook, Twitter

There's plenty of cleanup to do after riots blanketed Vancouver on Wednesday night following the city's Stanley Cup loss.

Social media to the rescue!

Concerned citizens rushed to organize Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr groups to organize massive cleanup efforts, Mashable reports.

See photos from the Vancouver riots here.

A Facebook group called "Post Riot Clean-up - Let's help Vancouver" already has more than 10,000 confirmed attendees as of 2 a.m. Vancouver time. The group explains:

"Once the embarrassing rioting has ended in Vancouver let's all show the world what Vancouver is really about by helping rebuild and clean up so it is better than it was before [...] Invite all of your friends! Let's see if we can get Vancouver looking like a new city by noon Thursday!"

There's also an accompanying Twitter account for the efforts @vancouverclean. And on Tumblr, "Vancouver 2011 Riot Criminal List" has surfaced, helping document those leading the riots after a call for photos from public officials. A website www.canucksriot2011.com has also been started to help with this effort.

Whoever started the Facebook and Twitter accounts also has the Vancouver Police in mind, noting that he or she plans to double check with the VancouverPD in the morning that the cleanup effort is okay to go forward. The VancouverPD itself has been actively tweeting throughout the riots.

Learn more about the Vancouver riots here.

Comments

[nightfly4257]

09:50 AM on 06/17/2011

Good vs Evil in Vancouver, hopefully the Good will come out victorious. Since their will be no parade for Canucks players may be they should come out and help clean up.

[temenos]

01:23 AM on 06/17/2011

I've spent the last fifty years in BC which coincidentally is the average IQ of the rioters. The many people organizing and volunteering in the cleanup represent the Vancouver that I love and I want to thank them all.

[JenniferAllen8319]

01:11 AM on 06/17/2011

The reason for the riot was definitely a riot! At least some good has come out of the social media network!

[Blodo]

10:04 PM on 06/16/2011

Good move, Vancouver! Now, on the other hand, for those who took part in the riots, my suggestion would be a penal colony on Baffin Island.

[see-ellen2001]

07:17 PM on 06/16/2011

Lots of videos and pics of these goons were taken by citizens who are posting them and sending them to the police. Roll out the police buses and orange jumpsuits, my friends, bcs these losers will lose.

[doubtit]

05:46 PM on 06/16/2011

I love Vancouver. Beautiful city, beautiful geographic area, wonderful people. These are the people that will clean up. We expect sport fan behavior like this in the U.S., but Canada? WTF?

[Mastiff]

04:10 PM on 06/16/2011

Kudos to the real Canadians who love their city.

[Pavane]

12:54 AM on 06/17/2011

What is wrong with you?

[tattytiara]

02:24 PM on 06/16/2011

Standing ovation for this TRUE show of civic pride.

[sensimilla]

12:39 PM on 06/16/2011

they should take the drunken punks that caused the devastation, turn them on their heads and mop the streets with them. Honestly..

[Jesse P. Steinberg]

10:50 AM on 06/16/2011

I wonder if the Canucks owners will be fined for the clean up. Seeing the Habs owners have to pay for anything broken, during a riot because of a hockey game.

[chinchilla]

10:13 AM on 06/16/2011

I leave in 19 minutes.

What a sad ending to what was, until last night, a great experience.

[nola70119]

08:14 AM on 06/16/2011

civility wins in the ends.

[joanimal]

07:08 AM on 06/16/2011

Wow...I can't believe the riots - way to be classy and show sportsmanship Vancouver. How embarrassing and sad! Hopefully the clean up will get as much press!

[Lincoln Gibbons]

06:06 AM on 06/16/2011

I'm going to help tomorrow. If even a third of the people who signed up come out, we'll have this city cleaned up by Sunday.

[tattytiara]

02:26 PM on 06/16/2011

Fanned for being awesome.