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Support Building For 2014 Million Mask March On November 5th

September 8, 2014 Justin King, www.theantimedia.org Resist! Anonymous, March, Politics, Protest

On November 5, 2013 the streets of major cities around the world were flooded by masked protesters affiliated with the Anonymous collective. Anonymous is preparing to hold another coordinated mass protest one year later, and are finding support from new places. 44 Fires, the British heavy metal band, not only allowed their music to be used in a video promoting the March, but even plans to perform at one of the Marches in the UK. The anti-establishment band shares a similar vision with the collective, and they certainly see some of the same culprits as causing the problems. The musicians hope to “delete the elite” and describe their music as a “juggernaut coming to destroy the political elite.” Bruse Small of 44 Fires spoke with Anti-Media about the video: Anti-Media: So a video featuring one of your songs has been adopted by Anonymous to promote the Million Mask March. How do you feel about that? We feel very honoured they are using one of our songs seeing as we hold the same ideals, hopefully that resonates in the song.

Barrett Brown Pleads Guilty: What It Means For Hacker Journalism

August 29, 2014 Douglas Lucas, www.dailydot.com Educate! Anonymous, Barret Brown, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Journalism

Tuesday in Dallas federal court, “hacktivist journo” Barrett Brown pled guilty to three counts stemming from his reporting on a high-profile Anonymous hack and his long-running battles with the FBI. The hearing, in effect, concluded his plea deal with the Department of Justice. Instead of facing a staggering 105 years in prison, Brown is now looking at up to eight and a half years—with a sizable chance of serving far less time. For most of the year and a half that he awaited trial, Brown was charged with threatening an FBI agent, conspiring to hide his potentially evidence-bearing laptops, and sharing a link to credit card data publicized during the hack of the private intelligence firm Stratfor. Free speech advocates, such as the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, called the allegations payback for his journalism. Brown's legal troubles kicked into high gear on March 6, 2012, when FBI agent Robert Smith led a raid on his apartment and mother's house in a hunt for the journalist's research into contractors who spy or conduct information warfare on behalf of government and corporate clients. The agents took away his computers and other electronics.

FBI Investigating Anonymous For Attacks On Ferguson Police Home Computers

August 25, 2014 Mark Sullivan, www.venturebeat.com Resist! Anonymous, Ferguson, Police

The FBI has launched an investigation into a series of attacks on the personal computers and online accounts of officers on the Ferguson, Missouri police department, CNN reports. CNN is citing three law enforcement officials, who apparently wanted to remain, uh, anonymous. The officials said the cyber attacks are believed to be from the ‘Anonymous’ group, a shadowy collective of hacktivists with no clear leader. The law officers targeted in the attacks are part of the city’s response to the ongoing demonstrations around the murder of 18-year-old Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson on August 9. The shooting of Brown set off a weeks-long series of demonstrations in Ferguson, which have been partly peaceful and partly violent. Anonymous launched a massive DoS attack on Ferguson’s city servers last Thursday, which caused the servers to crash and forced cops to use text messages to communicate.

Anonymous Launches #OpFerguson After Cop Kills Unarmed Missouri Teen

August 15, 2014 RT, www.rt.com Resist! Anonymous, Missouri, police brutality, Protest

Hacktivists have set their sights on the town of Ferguson, Missouri after police there on Saturday shot and killed an unarmed man, 18-year-old Michael Brown, elevating a wave of protests that have occurred in the days since to the digital realm. Demonstrations and vigils across the St. Louis, MO suburb have taken place ever since Saturday afternoon’s incident in which Brown was shot eight times by a Ferguson cop after an altercation allegedly occurred between the two, reportedly just days before the victim was expected to begin college. By Sunday, however, peaceful protests aimed at raising awareness of the shooting death began to turn violent in the city of barely 20,000, and local law enforcement responded to reports of riots and looting by deploying SWAT teams and heavily weaponized police. Members of the hacktivist group Anonymous — the internationally dispersed collective of hackers and activists that has previously waged campaigns targeting law enforcement organizations, government agencies and various corporations, among other entities, considered to be corrupt — responded to the shooting by issuing a statement on Sunday advocating for changes involving the use of force by law enforcement.

Anonymous Takes Down 1,000 Israeli Government And Business Websites

July 19, 2014 Mary-Ann Russon, www.ibtimes.co.uk Resist! Anonymous, Hacktivism, Israel, Wars and Militarism

Hacker collective Anonymous has announced that it has taken down over a thousand of crucial Israeli websites in a huge new coordinated cyber-attack called #OpSaveGaza on 11 July and 17 July, in support of the people of Palestine. Some of the websites, such as the Tel Aviv Police Department's online presence, are still offline two days after the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, and numerous Israeli government homepages have been replaced by graphics, slogans, and auto-playing audio files made by AnonGhost, the team of hackers who coordinated the attack. The official Israeli government jobs website has had its homepage replaced by a graphic titled "Akincilar", which is Turkish for the Ottoman Empire's troops.A message written in English and Turkish - presumably by Turkish hackers - and accompanied by pictures of Palestinians suffering says: "The Jerusalem cause is Muslims' fight of honour" and says that people who fight for Palestine are "on the side of Allah". Another Israeli government website now bears an AnonGhost graphic and lists the usernames of 38 hackers. An audio file that auto-plays when the page loads plays music and a synthesized newsreader clip, together with a message beseeching human rights organisations, hackers and activists to attack Israeli websites to become the "cyber shield, the voice for the forgotten people".

Anonymous Threatens Congress Over Bill

July 2, 2014 Dell Cameron, www.dailydot.com Resist! Anonymous, Congress, Law

A threat by the hacktivist group Anonymous over a new cybersecurity bill scheduled for committee markup next month is being taken seriously by the Washington D.C. capitol police. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA), authored by Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), is being labelled by many constitutional groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), as the third installment of a much-despised piece of Internet legislation widely known as CISPA. CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, was a hugely unpopular bill that has twice been dropped by the U.S. Senate. As a law, it would have permitted the U.S. government to share sensitive information with companies about the online habits of U.S. citizens, specifically, when deemed necessary to protect against rather ambiguously defined “cyber threats.” Opponents of CISPA, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Fight for the Future, successfully derailed CISPA by painting it as a danger to American civil liberties. The bill, critics said, would have allowed the federal government too broad authority when it came to tracking users’ online activities.

LulzSec Hacker ‘Sabu’ Released

June 2, 2014 Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com Educate! Anonymous, FBI, Hacker, Prison

Hector Xavier Monsegur, who by the US government’s calculations participated in computer hacker attacks on more than 250 public and private entities at a cost of up to $50m in damages, was released from a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday after the judge saluted his “extraordinary cooperation” with the FBI. Monsegur, or “Sabu” as the celebrated hacker was known, was sentenced to time served – equivalent to the seven months he spent in prison last year – plus a year’s supervised release, in reward for having spent much of the past three years working as a federal informant. He had been facing a maximum sentence according to official guidelines of more than 26 years. His lenient sentence seals his reputation as one of the hacker world’s most hated figures, a skilled technician who turned from having been a leading figure of the Anonymous and LulzSec collectives into what was in effect an undercover FBI agent.

Worldwide #WaveOfAction Begins Today

April 4, 2014 Susie Madrak, www.crooksandliers.com Resist! Anonymous, Worldwide Wave of Action

The Worldwide Wave of Action begins on April 4 at "former occupation sites around the world." A music video was released yesterday by elements of Anonymous along with Ice Cube, Eminem, and Korn. , calling people to action at the former Occupy encampments: They team up to splice together a nuance-eschewing, face-melting, testosterone-charged collaboration meant to incept a massive wave of action against the seemingly indomitable power of corporatist-totalitarianism within the world's leading liberal republics. The video features some hilarious spots of Rob Ford--perhaps the Western world's most flamboyant symbol of transparent corpo-political stoogism--as well as the mainstream media's two favorite tools of distraction, Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus. There are also a number of clips of Obama acting especially bourgeois while surrounded by animated cameras, implying that the spying-industrial-complex is an apolitical institution supported and grown by whichevever political party is in office.

Anonymous Fights Homelessness Worldwide

February 4, 2014 Lorraine Murphy www.dailydot.com Create! Anonymous, Homelessness

The operation was announced in a Pastebin November 7, when it became apparent that this season would bring some truly cruel weather to North America, Europe, and Asia. It quickly gained popularity among Anons, many of whom have been itching to get back into the streets for some direct, and positive, action. This kind of do-gooder op is problematic for some older Anons, who remember the days when it was all done with keyboards for the lulz; they call this "moralfagging" with all the contempt they can muster, but since 2008, when Anonymous went up against Scientology in OpChanology, moralfagging has been an important part of the fractious collective.

Bank Of America And Government Joined To Spy On Activists

January 7, 2014 Dell Cameron, www.dailydot.com Resist! Anonymous, Bank of America, Police abuse, Surveillance

The newly published documents reveal a coordinated effort by Bank of America, the Washington State Patrol (WSP), and federal counterterrorism agencies, to monitor activists as they prepared for a public demonstration in Olympia, Wash. Over 230 people originally signed up to attend the “Million Mask March” event, which was organized by the Anonymous movement and took place on November 5, 2013. Although an official report by the WSP described the event as a “peaceful protest” being organized by activists who had made “no threats of violence,” those involved were still monitored by the department before the event took place. Information gathered about the potential protesters was then shared with Bank of America. Furthermore, Bank of America solicited information about activists from various federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Hammond Sentencing: Feeding the Flame of Revolt

November 18, 2013 Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com Resist! Anonymous, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Jeremy Hammond, Stratfor, Wikileaks

I was in federal court here Friday for the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a private security firm that works on behalf of the government, including the Department of Homeland Security, and corporations such as Dow Chemical. In 2011 Hammond, now 28, released to the website WikiLeaks and Rolling Stone and other publications some 3 million emails from the Texas-based company Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor. The sentence was one of the longest in U.S. history for hacking and the maximum the judge could impose under a plea agreement in the case. It was wildly disproportionate to the crime—an act of nonviolent civil disobedience that championed the public good by exposing abuses of power by the government and a security firm. But the excessive sentence was the point. The corporate state, rapidly losing credibility and legitimacy, is lashing out like a wounded animal. It is frightened. It feels the heat from a rising flame of revolt. It is especially afraid of those such as Hammond who have the technical skills to break down electronic walls and expose the corrupt workings of power.

VIDEO: Resistance Report – Jeremy Hammond Case And More

November 17, 2013 Dennis Trainor, Jr., www.acronymtv.com Educate! Anonymous, Climate Change, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Drones, Environment, Fracking, Jeremy Hammond, Media, Tar Sands, Video, Wikileaks

Anonymous hacker and activist Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday. Among the services Hammond provided to those of us seeking to fight back against the security and surveillance state included key evidence in the civil suit brought by Christopher Hedges and Alexa O’Brien against Barack Obama over Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act. In his sentencing statement, Hammond said: “The acts of civil disobedience and direct action that I am being sentenced for today are in line with the principles of community and equality that have guided my life. I hacked into dozens of high profile corporations and government institutions, understanding very clearly that what I was doing was against the law, and that my actions could land me back in federal prison. But I felt that I had an obligation to use my skills to expose and confront injustice—and to bring the truth to light." Also on the show: The 2013 Drone Summit, The UN Climate Conference in Warsaw, Poland, Fighting Tar Sands in New England, and MSNBC’s LEAN FORWARD Campaign Cozies Up To Fracking

Protesters Light ‘Bonfire of Austerity’ Across UK

November 6, 2013 Jacob Chamberlain, www.commondreams.org Resist! Anonymous, Austerity, Energy

The flames burned bright on "Bonfire Night" in London and dozens of other UK cities as protesters gathered once again to protest ongoing austerity measures in the country. Demonstrators in Parliament Square carried signs that read "no cuts," "corporate greed does not make democracy," and "cut war not welfare," as part of an anti-austerity demonstration organized by the People's Assembly Against Austerity. At one point the crowds marched to the middle of Westminster Bridge and lit a "Bonfire of Austerity," burning energy bills in defiance of rising energy costs. "The big six energy companies are effectively holding consumers across the country to ransom," said Owen Jones of the People's Assembly, citing failed action on part of UK lawmakers. "It’s going to drive nine million people into fuel poverty, it’s going to kill elderly people."

Video/Photos on #MillionMaskMarch in DC

November 6, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Anonymous

Below is more video and photographs from various independent citizen's media reporters on the Million Mask March held on November 5, 2013. Bill Hughes writes: Activists seeking “justice, peace and privacy,” and inspired by the hacktivist movement, “Anonymous,” descended on Tuesday, Nov. 5th, about 300 to 400 of them on Washington, D.C. Many of them wore masks. Take that NSA! Their irreverent rally, with anti-Establishment banners and flag flying, just happened to fall on “Guy Fawkes Day.” All praise to the Brits for that one. The demonstration started early in the morning at the Washington Monument on the National Mall; moved northward over to Lafayette Park in front of the White House; then, paraded east to the U.S. Capitol; and finally, it led to a march around mid-town. I first caught up with a few of the activists around 1 PM at Lafayette Park; and, then later in the day when they were parading at 13th & I Streets. On their web site, the activists railed about “billionaires who own banks and corporations - who corrupt politicians - who enslave the people in injustice.”

Photos: Anons Seen All Around The World #MillionMaskMarch

November 5, 2013 Staff, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Anonymous, Democracy, Government

The Million Mask March called by members of Anonymous took place all around the world today. Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks were seen from the Philippines to South Africa, New York City to Los Angeles, London to Amsterdam. Guy Fawkes was a member of a group of English Catholics who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. November 5th has been treated as Guy Fawkes day in Great Britain from 1605 often celebrated with bonfires and fireworks. International fame was brought to Fawkes from the V for Vendetta comic book and the 2005 movie where Fawkes leads a revolt against a fascist British government. In the movie, Fawkes creates a spectacle campaign taking over the media to bring down the government, blowing up the Houses of Parliament to convince the people to rule themselves. Anonymous has taken the Fawkes image as a protest against the corruption of government. The protests today raised a wide range of issues caused by systemic corruption of government and big business interests.

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