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| From: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
| Date: 1/9/11, 21:10 |
| To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Never in human history has mankind endured a period in which so much of the terminology employed at its end would have been
unrecognizable at its beginning. The last twenty years have changed the landscape in which man operates, expanding the
potential for human collaboration in such a way as to eliminate the barriers that rendered the nation-state a viable
instiution. As those barriers fall, so too does the primacy of the world's governments, which in turn have increasingly found
themselves unable to maintain the secrecy through which they have run the bulk of human affairs with results that may be
politely characterized as mixed. The various governments have responded to these developments with a collective message to
the effect that such secrecy is necessary if those governments are to continue operating without the informed consent of
their respective populations, though in slightly different words. Meanwhile, several such governments have, through their
specific conduct in the wake of the last year, provided a timely reminder as to why it is that many of those who truly value
liberty and morality can no longer support such governments and are now working to develop their replacements.
In an effort to counter the dishonesty and injustice of those states which have reacted to such emergent phenomena with
censorship and persecution of the sort that the observant have come to expect, an unprecedented coalition of information
activists and other parties has come together in an effort to advance the ongoing campaign against those obsolete dynamics of
informational tyranny that have been on intructive view in the context of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and Bradley Manning. All
three of these parties been subjected to state oppression without due regard for the alleged "rule of law;" all three have
been maligned in dishonest and often bizarre ways; all three have earned such treatment by way of having together ensured
that all of humanity may, for the first time in history, together learn how it is that their wealth, loyalty, and lives are
being used by those who plead national security while having provided no such thing to their own citizens and even seizing it
from those living elsewhere.
In response to the latest outrages against competence and decency, our coalition - comprised of veterans and anti-war groups,
a faction of the Anonymous movement, the distributed think-tank Project PM, and a loose network of journalists, media
professionals, scientists, former intelligence and government officials - announces a stepped-up campaign of information and
direct action that begins tomorrow and which will culminate in a rally and press conference on the steps of New York City
Hall on April 7th at 3:00 pm. The event itself will be supplemented by similar protests and meetings in other cities across
the world, themselves organized by Anonymous and each charged with bringing attention to one of the dozens of significant
stories that the media has largely ignored due to the unfortunate dynamics by which those media operate. The New York
conference, set up by longtime resident activist, Navy veteran, and acclaimed photographer John Penley, will feature about a
dozen speakers including Penley, author and Project PM founder Barrett Brown, and key Anonymous activist and Chanology co-
instigator Gregg Housh. Messages from other figures in the pro-transparency movement will also be presented in lieu of their
ability to attend.
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Regards,
Barrett Brown
512-560-2302