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