Barret

Ok I will be there tommorow night. Further Anonymous protests may 
be possible but the IRC channels seem to be depleted. I will do my 
best though.

Best of luck,

mr[a]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:00:08 +0000 Barrett Brown 
<barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

A-

As I mentioned, we'd like to have Anonymous-fueled sister protests 
across
the globe on April 7th and the run-up, ideally with each one 
dedicated to
promoting coverage of a particular story that Wikileaks has 
unveiled but
which has gotten little attention. I'd like you to help Gregg and 
myself
make this happen. We'll discuss at weekly meeting on Wednesday, 
7:00 EST.
Here is the press release that will be going out today or 
tomorrow.

For Immediate Distribution
Press Release
January 6th, 2011

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
institution. 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.

***

Confirmed Speakers/Organizers

John Penley is a Vietnam era Navy vet who was put in solitary 
confinement in
1984 by the U.S. government for a past protest at the Savannah 
River Nuclear
Weapons Plant. A 59-year-old veteran of New York City housing, 
anti-war and
civil rights activism, Penley is also a longtime photojournalist 
whose work
has been pubilshed by most NYC major media outlets; his photo 
archive is
available through Tamiment Library at New York University. Contact
gloco@live.com

Barrett Brown is a writer and author as well as the founder of 
Project PM.
His work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Huffington Post, The 
Guardian, The
Onion, New York Press, Skeptical Inquirer, American Atheist, and 
other
outlets. He has been active in the Anonymous movement for several 
years and
serves as an advocate for efficient, ethical alternatives to 
traditional
methods of governance. Contact barriticus@gmail.com.

Gregg Housh is an internet activist involved with the online non-
group
Anonymous. His work has included coordinating global 
demonstrations
against human rights abuses in the Church of Scientology and 
assisting
Iranian members of the Green Movement in reaching the global 
media. Having
built a strong sense of trust among several disparate subgroups of
Anonymous, Housh now acts as a media interpreter for major
online initiatives such as Operation Payback. Contact 
greggatghc@gmail.com

Press Contact

Nikki Loehr - evilevilcouch@gmail.com

-- 
Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302