| Subject: RE: Project PM meeting in 30 minutes: North Africa assistance. |
| From: "Walter L. Newton" <newton@acrossthebow.com> |
| Date: 1/26/11, 19:25 |
| To: "'Barrett Brown'" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Barrett,
I went over to the IRC site, I was going
to monitor the conversation, feel out what’s going on, but I keep getting this
message…
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and
was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, you@example.com and
inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done
that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server
error log.
Are your getting overloaded or
something, or did I do something… I was using “irc.freenode.net” as you posted below.
Hmmmmm….
Walter L. Newton
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From: Barrett Brown
[mailto:barriticus@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
4:31 PM
To: Barrett Brown
Subject: Project PM meeting in 30
minutes:
We'll be having our weekly Project PM meeting at irc.freenode.net, #projectpm, to discuss our
current operations in support of
Thanks to everyone for their hard work so far.
An unprecedented coalition of
information activists and organizations have come together in an effort to
advance the ongoing campaign against the informational tyranny that has been on
view as of late in the context of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and Bradley
Manning. All three of these parties have 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 (and the effects may be seen in North Africa and particularly
Tunisia, where Anonymous-affiliated activists have been successful in
establishing a freer government to replace the prior tyranny).
In response to these latest
outrages against competence and decency, and in support of the ongoing digital
reformation, 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, and related organizations - announces a stepped-up
campaign of information and direct action which will culminate in a rally and
press conference on the steps of New York City Hall on April 7th at 3:00 pm.
This event, the Rally for Information Freedom, will be supplemented by a
campaign on the part of Anonymous, Project PM, and related entities to bring
attention to the dozens of significant stories that have been largely ignored
due to the unfortunate dynamics by which too many media have come to operate.
The
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 a great
portion human affairs with results that may be politely characterized as mixed.
The various states have responded to these developments with a collective
message to the effect that such secrecy is necessary if they are to continue
operating without the informed consent of their respective populations, though
this has generally been expressed 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 have lost faith in those same governments.
This event is part of an effort
to counter the dishonesty and injustice of the states which have reacted to
such emergent phenomena with censorship and persecution while also forging
greater coordination among the various parties that have been fighting on
behalf of the cause of informational liberty. To this end, a series of meetings
both formal and otherwise will be held throughout the first week of April;
further information will be relayed in a second press release in late March.
John Penley is a
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.
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
Glenn Greenwald is a former constitutional and civil rights
litigator, the author of two bestselling books on the American socio-political
environment, and a longtime blogger who currently writes for Salon. He now
serves as one of the nation’s most formidable advocates of Wikileaks, Bradley
Manning, and information freedom in general. Depending on his location on the
day of the event, he’ll be speaking either in person or via relay.
Barry Eisler is a former employee of the
CIA's Directorate of Operations who now acts as a critic of that and other
intelligence organizations. He's the author of two bestselling series of novels
drawing on his own intel background and blogs for a number of outlets. He'll be
speaking either via relay or a pre-written message to be read at the event.
Heidi Boghosian is the executive director of the National Lawyers
Guild, a progressive bar association established in 1937. She is co-host of the
weekly civil liberties radio program Law and Disorder on WBAI,
Professor Jonathan Farley is a mathematics professor whom
Seed Magazine named “one of 15 people who have shaped the global conversation
on science since 1995,” with a career including stints at MIT, Vanderbilt, and
Bill Quigley is the Legal Director for the Center for
Constitutional Rights, a national legal and educational organization dedicated
to advancing and defending the rights guaranteed by the United States
Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Bill joined CCR on
sabbatical from his position as law professor and Director of the Law Clinic
and the
Vagabond Beaumont is a writer, artist and filmmaker. He's worked in
the Puerto Rican independence movement since 1997 and has organized rallies,
protests and marches and created murals, pamphlets and agitprop in support of
thatcause with the artist collective RICANSTRUCTION Netwerk. His work has been
featured in Blu Magazine, AWOL, SALVO and Left Turn. His first feature film, MACHETERO, covers the ongoing struggle for Puerto Rican
independence and has screened at festivals around the world, winning awards in
Sebastian Gillen is a 21-year-old graduate of
Faith Laugier is a musician, artist, activist, and
Barrett Brown
barriticus@gmail.com
(512) 560-2302
irc.freenode.net #projectpm
projectpm.org
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Regards,
Barrett Brown
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