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Contents

9 Introduction 11 Censorship 12 Freedom Of Speech 30 Juilan Assange 48 WikiLeaks 58 Anonymous 68 Anonops 92 Revolution 116 The Aftermath 138 What Next? 138 References

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 19 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Introduction

In April 2010, an international non-profit organization that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks, known as WikiLeaks posted video from a 2007 incident in which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by US forces, on a website called Collateral Murder. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan. These very acts start new age of revolution and triaged a copycat behavior, which can be compared to a social theory known as a stand-alone complex. This book as been written and designed to analyze this theory with the views of censorship.

Censorship is not a new issue. It has been around for centuries. Nor is it solely confined to literature. Censorship exists in Politics, Music, Art and many other areas. In the 16th century, when England converted to Protestantism the English Bible was brought back in. However, there were still texts banned: during the conversion, the possession of anything related to the Vatican or the Pope was illegal. In fact, when Henry VIII wanted to get rid of his second wife, Anne Boleyn, he accused her of having been in possession of a censored book during the reformation, 4 years ago! These censoring rules were serious!

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Censorship of literary works continues today. The most recent controversy is one concerning literary craze Harry Potter. The Potter book’s, which are written for the young adult/teen market, deal with sorcery and magic. The hero is a wizard who knows spells and fights dragons and such. Some fundamentalist Christian groups are trying to ban the Potter books, saying that they encourage witchcraft. In the long and colourful history of censorship, many of what we today call classics have been the subjects of burnings or bannings. The Nazis were notorious for their book burnings, provoking Heinrich Heine to pronounce famously, and he was right. How a man could predict the terrifying ovens of Auchwitz in 1933 is unknown, but this quote shows one thing: censorship is not so much about the books as it is about control. The Nazis may have thought that they were only burning books, but it went further than that: they were burning freedom of thought. Sadly, censorship in today’s literary world is all too common. We hope this history has made you think about what we’ve verged on in the past and made you pause and wonder about whether we will change in the future.

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The right to seek information and ideas The right to receive information and ideas The right to impart information and ideas

Article 9 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Freedom of Speech

Today freedom of speech, or the freedom of expression, is recognized in international and regional human rights law. The right is enshrined in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights, Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 9 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Based on John Stuart Mill’s arguments, freedom of speech is understood as a multi-faceted right that includes the right to express, or disseminate, information and ideas, but three further distinct aspects.

Concepts of freedom of speech can be found in early human rights documents. The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, states that: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” 13

Moral Censorship Moral censorship is the removal of materials that are obscene or otherwise considered morally questionable. Pornography, for example, is often censored under this rationale, especially child pornography, which is illegal and censored in many jurisdictions in the world.

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Military Censorship Military censorship is the process of keeping military intelligence and tactics confidentialand away from the enemy. This is used to counter espionage, which is the process of gleaning military information. Very often, militaries will also attempt to suppress politically inconvenient information even if that information has no actual intelligence or combat-tactical value.

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Political Censorship Political censorship occurs when governments hold back information from their citizens. This is often done to exert control over the populace and prevent free expression that might foment rebellion.

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Religion Censorship Religious censorship is the means by which any material considered objectionable by a certain faith is removed. This often involves a dominant religion forcing limitations on less prevalent ones. Alternatively, one religion may shun the works of another when they believe the content is not appropriate for their faith.

Corporate Censorship Corporate censorship is the process by which editors in corporate media outlets intervene to disrupt the publishing of information that portrays their business or business partners in a negative light or intervene to prevent alternate offers from reaching public exposure.

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Internet Censorship Internet censorship is control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet. The legal issues are similar to offline censorship. One difference is that national borders are more permeable online: residents of a country that bans certain information can find it on websites hosted outside the country. A government can try to prevent its citizens from viewing these even if it has no control over the websites themselves. Barring total control on Internet-connected computers, such as in North Korea and Cuba, total censorship of information on the Internet is very difficult or impossible to achieve due to the underlying distributed technology of the Internet. During the Wikileaks crisis of 2010, for example, Wikileaks proliferated its content on servers in various nations, while volunteers created hundreds of mirror sites, keeping Wikileaks content public despite the efforts of government or corporate censors. Data havens allow unconditional free speech, as the technology guarantees that material cannot be removed and the author of any information is impossible to link to a physical identity or organization.

In some cases, Internet censorship may involve deceit. In such cases the censoring authority may block content while leading the public to believe that censorship has not been applied. This may be done by having the ISP provide a fake â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not Found,â&#x20AC;? error message upon the request of an Internet page that is actually found but blocked.

Full Block

About 3500 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routes to Egyptian networks were shut down from about 22:10 to 22:35 UTC 27 January. A technically simpler method of Internet censorship is to completely cut off all routers, either by software or by hardware. This appears to have been the case on 27/28 January 2011 during the 2011 Egyptian protests, in what has been widely described as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;unprecedentedâ&#x20AC;? Internet block.

JULIAN ASSANGE

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Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher, journalist, software developer and Internet activist. He is the founder, pokesperson, and editor in chief of WikiLeaks, a whistleblower website and conduit for worldwide news leaks, with the stated purpose of creating open governments. Assange has worked as a computer programmer and was a hacker during his youth. He has lived in several countries, and has made public appearances in many parts of the world to speak about freedom of the press, censorship, and investigative journalism. Assange founded the WikiLeaks website in 2006 and serves on its advisory board. He has published material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya, toxic waste dumping in Côte d’Ivoire, Church of Scientology manuals, Guantanamo Bay procedures, and banks such as Kaupthing and Julius Baer. In 2010, he published classified details about American involvement in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. On 28 November 2010, WikiLeaks and its five international print media partners began publishing secret US diplomatic cables. Assange has been praised and condemned for his work with WikiLeaks. In the USA, there have been calls that he be arreste or treated as a terrorist.

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He received a number of awards and nominations, including the 2009 Amnesty International Media Award for publishing material about extrajudicial killings in Kenya and Readersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Choice for Time magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2010 Person of the Year. Assange is currently wanted for questioning in Sweden regarding alleged sexual offences, and was arrested in London, England on 7 December 2010. He is currently on bail and under house arrest in England pending an extradition hearing on 7 and 8 February. Assange has denied the allegations and claimed that they are politically motivated.

It’s not that fear is absent. But courage is really the intellectual mastery over fear - by an understanding of what the risks are and how to navigate a path through them.

Julian Assange ia a response to an information revolution that threatens old power orders in politics and journalism. The incitement to murder trumpeted by public figures in the United States, together with attempts by the Obama administration to corrupt the law and send Assange to a hell-hole prison for the rest of his life, are the reactions of a rapacious system exposed as never before. he US Justice Department has established a secret grand jury just across the river from Washington in the eastern district of the state of Virginia. The object is to indict Assange under a discredited espionage act used to arrest peace activists during the First World War, or one of the “war on terror” conspiracy statutes that have degraded American justice.

The US Justice Department has established a secret grand jury just across the river from Washington in the eastern district of the state of Virginia. The object is to indict Assange under a discredited espionage act used to arrest peace activists during the First World War, or one of the “war on terror” conspiracy statutes that have degraded American justice. Judicial experts describe the jury as a “deliberate set up,” pointing out that this corner of Virginia is home to the employees and families of the Pentagon, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, and other pillars of American power. The threat to his freedom and safety, WikiLeaks is not USA main technological enemy. China is theworst offender. China has aggressive, sophisticated interception technology that places itself between every reader inside China and every information source outside China. They’ve been fighting a running battle to make sure we can get information through, and there are now all sorts of ways Chinese readers can get on to the site.

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WOR M S A G A INST Investigators initially believed the worm to have originated in France, but due to the cultural references included within the program, the worm is now thought to have been created by Melbourne-based hackers, the first to be created by an Australian or Australians. The federal police of Melbourne thought the worm was created by two of the best hackers Electron and Phoenix. This was however not proven, due to a lack of evidence. The worm appeared days before the launch of Galileo, amidst protests by anti-nuclear groups regarding the use of nuclear power in Galileo. It did not attack computers within the DEC area 48, which was New Zealand. It is thought that this was because New Zealand was a nuclear free zone that had recently forbidden U.S. nuclear-powered vessels from docking at its harbors, thus further fueling the speculation inside NASA that the worm attack was related to the anti-nuclear protest.The worm propagated from one system to the other, trying to undertake weakly secured privileged accounts such as SYSTEM and DECNET that had password identical to the usernames. In addition to its political message, the worm contained several features of a apparently playful them. The words “wank” and “wanked” are slang terms used in many countries to refer to masturbation. In addition, the worm contained “over sixty” randomisable messages that it would display to users, including “Vote anarchist” and “The FBI is watching YOU”. The line “You talk of times of peace for all, and then prepare for war” is drawn from the lyrics of the Midnight Oil song Blossom and Blood; Midnight Oil are an Australian rock band known for their political activism and opposition to both nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The process name of the second version of the worm to be detected was “oilz”, an Australian shorthand term for the band. The worm programmed to trick users into believing that files were being deleted, though no files were actually erased by the worm.

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In 1987, after turning 16, Assange began hacking under the name “Mendax”. He and two other hackers joined to form a group which they named the International Subversives.The Personal Democracy Forum said he was “Australia’s most famous ethical computer hacker.”

The Australian Federal Police became aware of this group and set up “Operation Weather” to investigate their hacking. In September 1991 Mendax was discovered in the act of hacking into the Melbourne master terminal of Nortel, the Canadian Telecommunications company. In response the Australian Federal Police tapped Assanges’ phoneline and subsequently raided his Melbourne home in 1991.He was also reported to have accessed computers belonging to an Australian university, the USAF 7th Command Group in the Pentagon and other organisations, via modem. It took three years to bring the case to court, where he was charged with 31 counts of hacking and related crimes. Nortel claimed his incursions cost them more than $100,000 dollars. Despite representing hacking as a victimless crime, he nonetheless pleaded guilty to 25 charges of hacking. Six charges were dropped. He was released on bond for good conduct after being fined (Australian) $2100.

The judge said,“there is just no evidence that there was anything other than sort of intelligent inquisitiveness and the pleasure of being able to—what’s the expression—surf through these various computers.” The judge also stated that Assange would have gone to jail for up to 10 years if he had not had such a disrupted childhood. Assange later commented, “It’s a bit annoying, actually. Because I co-wrote a book about, there are documentaries about that, people talk about that a lot. They can cut and paste. But that was 20 years ago. It’s very annoying to see modern day articles calling me a computer hacker. I’m not ashamed of it, I’m quite proud of it. But I understand the reason they suggest I’m a computer hacker now. There’s a very specific reason.”

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“If I released the Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric and the same calls would be made about me ... I would be called not only a traitor — which I was then, which was false and slanderous — but I would be called a terrorist... Assange and Bradley Manning are no more terrorists than I am.” On 10 December 2010 over five hundred people rallied outside Sydney Town Hall and about three hundred and fifty people gathered in Brisbane where Assange’s lawyer, Rob Stary, criticised Julia Gillard’s position, telling the rally that the Australian government was a “sycophant” of the US. A petition circulated by GetUp!, who have placed full page ads in support of Assange in The New York Times and The Washington Times, received more than 50,000 signatures Daniel Ellsberg, who was working in the U.S.Department of Defense when he leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, was a signature to a statement by an international group of former intelligence officer and ex-government officials in support of Assange’s work, which was released in late December 2010. Other signatorie included David Mac-Michael, Ray McGovern, and five recipients of annual Sam Adams Award: Frank Grevil, Katharine Gun, Craig Murray, Coleen Rowley and Larry Wilkerson. 40

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WikiLeaks WikiLeaks was founded in 2006.That year, Assange wrote two essays setting out the philosophy behind WikiLeaks: “To radically shift regime behavior we must think clearly and boldly for if we have learned anything, it is that regimes do not want to be changed. We must think beyond those who have gone before us and discover technological changes that embolden us with ways toact in which our frebears could not.” In his blog he wrote, “the more secretive or unjust an organisation is, the more leaks induce fear and paranoia in its leadership and planning coterie.... Since unjust systems, by their nature induce opponents, and in many places barely have the upper hand, mass leaking leaves them exquisitely vulnerable to those who seek to replace them with more open forms of governance.” 42

Assange says that Wikileaks has released more classified documents than the rest of the world press combined: “That’s not something I say as a way of saying how successfulwe are – rather, that shows you the parlous state of the rest of the media. How is it that a team of five people has managed to release to the public more suppressed information, at that level, than the rest of the world press combined? It’s disgraceful.” He advocates a “transparent” and “scientific” approach to journalism, saying that “you can’t publish a paper on physics without the full experimental data and results; that should be the standard in journalism.” In 2006, Counter Punch called him “Australia’s most infamous former computer hacker.” The Age has called him “one of the most intriguing people in the world” and “internet’s freedom fighter.”

Assange has called himself “extremely cynical.” He has been described as being largely self-taught and widely readon science and mathematics and as thriving on intellectual battle. WikiLeaks has been involved in the publication of material documenting extrajudicial killings in Kenya, a report of toxic waste dumping on the coast of Côte d’Ivoire, Church of Scientology manuals, Guantanamo Bay procedures, the 12 July 2007 Baghdad airstrike video, and material involving large banks such as Kaupthing and Julius Baer among other documents. In late 2010, Assange was in the process of completing his memoirs for publication in 2011. Assange sits on Wikileaks’s nine-member advisory board, and is a prominent media spokesman on its behalf. While newspapers have described him as a “director” or “founder” of Wikileaks, Assange has said, “I don’t call myself a founder”; he does describe himself as the editor in chief of WikiLeaks, and has stated that he has the final decision in the process of vetting documents submitted to the site.

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WikiLeaks

In April 2010, an international non-profit organization that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks, known as WikiLeak spoted video from a 2007. Incident in which Iraqi civilians and journalists were killed by US forces, on a website called Collateral Murder. In July of the same year, WikiLeaks released Afghan War Diary, a compilation 6of more than 76,900 documents about the War in Afghanistan. These very acts start new age of revolution and triaged a copycat behavior, which can be compared to a social theory known as a stand-alone complex. This book as been written and designed to analyze this theory with the views of censorship.

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Unreported Cases Misleading Casualties of Torture

The secret files detail numerous cases of abuse and torture by Iraqi police, and the American military’s failure to investigate them. They include reports of detainees being shackled and hung from their wrists or ankles, whipped, burned with acid, electrocuted, and sexually assaulted. According to Al Jazeera, Iraqi police used electric drills to get information from prisoners. The Guardian reports that six prisoners died from torture, including one who died of “unknown surgery.”

The leaked documents show that the U.S. was, in fact, keeping track of Iraqi civilian deaths, despite statements to the contrary. The documents show that 109,032 Iraqis died between January 1, 2004, and December 31, 2009, 66,081 of whom were civilians. However, even these numbers may fall short of the truth when depicting civilian deaths at the hands of coalition forces: No civilian deaths are recorded in Fallujah, for example, the site of two major battles in 2004. Iraq Body Countmonitors counted over 1,200 civilian deaths during the fighting.

Frago 242 Because of secret order Frago 242, it was coalition policy not to investigate many reports of torture, The Guardian reports. Issued in June 2004, Frago 242 required that coalition troops not investigate any breach of the laws of armed conflict unless it directly involved members of the coalition. The Guardian gives the example of a video the U.S. military received showing Iraqi army members dragging a man into the street, beating and shooting him. Despite the fact that the report even listed the name of one of the perpetrators, the leaked document shows it was marked “no investigation is necessary” and passed back to the unit incriminated in the report.

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The same unit and helicopter, call sign Crazy-horse 18, involved in the so-called Collateral Murder video, in which two Reuters employees are killed and two children wounded, is reported to have killed two Iraqi combatants who were trying to surrender in February 2007. “You cannot surrender to an aircraft,” a lawyer back at base reportedly told the U.S. soldiers.

Bradley Manning

Manning is classed as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;maximum custodyâ&#x20AC;? detainee, despite having no history of violence or disciplinary offences in custody. This means he is shackled at the hands and legs during all visits and denied opportunities to work, which would allow him to leave his cell.

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He was arrested i May 2010 after Adrian Lamo, a former computer hacker, reportedto authorities that Manning had toldhim during an online chat that he had downloaded material from SIPRNet and passed it to WikiLeaks. The material included the so-called“Collateral Murder” video—the video of a July 2007 helicopter airstrike in Baghdad— which WikiLeaks published in April 2010; a video of the Granal air strike in Afghanistan; and a large number of diplomatic cables.

In 2010, NBC News’s chief Pentagon correspondent, Jim Miklaszewski, reported sources inside the US military as saying they could detect no contact between Manning and Assange. If accurate, then US authorities have no realistic chance of successfully prosecuting or extraditing Assange for the leak of thousands of classified documents.Also reported that the commander of Manning’s military jail at the Quantico US Marine base exceeded his Manning was assigned to a support battalion with authority in placing the private on suicide watch. the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Manning being confined in solitary confinement in Division, based at Contingency Operating Station his cell for 23 hours eachday, with only one hour for Hammer, Iraq, which gave him access to SIPRNet —the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network- used exercise and one hour watching television. by the U.S. Department of Defense and Department Manning’s treatment has attracted criticism from human rights watchdog Amnesty International, of State to transmit classified information. which describes his conditions as “inhumane.” Bradley E. Manning, born December 17. 1987, is a United States Army soldier who was charged in July 2010 with the unauthorized disclosure of classified information. He is being held in “maximum custody” at the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico, Virginia, and is expected to face a pre-trial hearing in May 2011 to determine whether he should be court-martialed.

ANONYMOUS

Anonymous

Anonymous is a cultural phenomenon which began on internet image boards. Many such boards require no registration for posting and every poster remains anonymous. This format of communication is inherently noisy and chaotic. However, the unprecedented openness made possible by such boards has nurtured the appearance of a unique and persistent culture. We are a collection of individuals united by ideas. You likely know Anonymous, although you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know exactly who we are. We are your brothers and sisters, your parents and children, your superiors and your underlings. We are the concerned citizens standing next to you. Anonymous is everywhere, yet nowhere. Our strength lies in our numbers. Our will as a whole is the combined will of individuals. Our greatest advantage is a knowledge of the fundamentals we share as human beings. This knowledge is a fruit of our anonymity.

We are Anonymous. too. Together, we can

You can be Anonymous, shape society.

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“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” -Article 19, United Nations Declaration of Universal Human Rights.

common thread that binds many internet users and impels them toward Anonymous is the concept that information, by its nature, is free; and that communication should be unfettered. The open sharing and expression of ideas and opinions, how ever controversial or divergent, is the cornerstone of all free societies. This ability empowers individuals to determine their own destinies; justice is possible only when the influential cannot force others to remain silent about abuse. The precise meaning of “Freedom of Information” varies according to the individual. To some, it simply means being able to seek out public knowledge on a subject without fear of retribution or censorship from the government. This view is based on the idea that access to accurate, relevant information informs rational opinions about the world around us.

To others, Freedom of Information is a call for greater corporate and governmental transparency. This conviction stems from the notion that in order for citizens to participate fully and democratically, those in power must share all kinds of informationâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;whether or not it is politic for them to do so. Thus fraud, theft and abuse must be exposed to the public, and the perpetrators held accountable for their actions. Finally, some individuals view Freedom of Information as a call to rethink current positions on the concept of intellectual property, in the interest of a better world. This view favors diminishing legal and corporate limitations on the use of ideas or creative work that may inhibit innovation and progress. For any or all of these reasons, many Anonymous activists believe that Freedom of Information is as vital to a free society as the universal right to freedom of expression. Why We Protest supports these activists in their various Freedom of Information initiatives.

WhyWeProtest From the time of its inception, why we protestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission has encompassed a broad range of immediate and long-range objectives. Our vision is based on the conviction that successful grass-roots campaigns are founded on access to information and a venue to publish it. Accordingly, we are creating a stable platform wherein grassroots movements and proponents of humanitarian causes can discuss legal methods of protest and information dissemination. For several years why we protest has served as the worldwide hub of protest against censorship and human rights abuses by the Church of Scientology. In addition, we have supported the Green Wave movement for free elections in Iran and, most recently, endeavors related to WikiLeaks and Freedom of Information.

Thus the 2009 Iranian election protests were labeled theTwitter Revolution; the 2011Tunisian, Egyptian and Algerian efforts have been dubbed the Facebook Revolution. But Twitter and Facebook, as promising as they may be, are not primarily committed to or designed for activist purposes and do not possess a repository of time-tested information and resources. It is not social media but rather the internet itself, along with the multitude of services it garners, that catalyzes these activist efforts, makes them visible and will continue toadvance their objectives.

Technological developments herald an era in which reason and compassion truly can cross national borders,transcend imaginary boundaries of religious and political orientation, and bridge generational gaps. This potentially powerful expansion of goodwill and information-sharing challenges current social As we continue to serve these and political structures and thus presents a specific initiatives, we advance our fundamental likely target for powerful entities whose interests mission to develop and provide an environment rely on the status quo. It may be only a matter of that encourages collaboration and responsible time before the information shared via social action. We envision that through shared media is by default compromised and censored. participation within the WhyWeProtest Ultimately, Why We Protest intends to help fill activism platform, individuals and groups the resulting void and build a world in which with overlapping and even divergent positions all voices can be heard through the conduit will be empowered to look beyond their of new technologies.In such a world, previously differences and to engage in fruitful dialogue disempowered groups will possess both the and collaboration. As new technology enameans and the necessary information to make bles activists to bridge the boundaries of themselves be heard by their governments and distance and language, momentum is gathering corporations. Online communities centered and possibilities for social change are opening around diverse interests will enable ordinary up. Conscientious individuals the world over people to rapidly coordinate demonstrations continue to aid activists in need of uncensored and protests, exchange ideas and create better communication technologies. and more effective forms of activism.

Beneath this mask there is morethan flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof. V for Vendetta James McTeigue and Alan Moore

ANONOPS

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AnonOps

AnonOps is a cultural phenomenon which began on internet image boards. AnonOps is an international group that was founded from within the Operation: Payback campaign. After the numerous server changes and issues that Operation:Payback encountered in regards to service, it was decided that it would be more suitable if the group ran its own services rather than relying on others. When Operation: Payback went into hiatus in mid-October 2010, the group decided that it would provide services to any Anonymous Operation, not just Operation: Payback. This could be considered the point where the network and the operations that reside on it became separate entities. AnonOps should now be considered a stand-alone network with no official ties to the campaigns that use its platform.

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In the following two days, Operation Payback attacked a multitude of sites affiliated with the MPAA, the Recording Industry Association of America and British Phonographic Industry. Law firms such as ACS:Law, Davenport Lyons and Dunlap, Grubb & Weaver were also attacked.

Operation Payback is a coordinated group of attacks on opponents of internet piracy by internet activists. It was created by users of 4 chan, an online community. This page was designed for WikiLeaks (obviously) to help keep WikiLeaks Alive. In 2010, several Bollywood companies hired Aiplex Software to launch DDoS attacks on websites that did not respond to software takedown notices. Piracy activists then created Operation Payback in September 2010 in retaliation. The original plan was to attack Aiplex Software directly, but upon finding some hours before the planned DDoS that another individual had taken down the firmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website on their own, Operation Payback moved to launching attacks against the websites of copyright stringent organisations Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, giving the two websites a combined total downtime of 30 hours. 71

Operation The first serious infowar is battle is Wikileaks. Julian Assange deifies everything we hold dear. He despises and fights censorship constantly, is possibly the most successful international of all times, and doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afraid of fucking anything (not even the US government). Now, Julian is the prime focus of a global manhunt, in both the physical and virtual realms. Governments across te world are baying for his blood, politicians are up in arms about his recent leak, and his own country has abandoned him to the wolves. Online, WikiLeaks is a focus of mass DDoS attacks, legislation and downright pandering to the corrupt incumbents which would silence this man. Therefore, Anonymous has a chance to kick back for Julian. We have a chance to fight which looms ahead. We have a chance to fight in this first info-war even fought. The future of the internet hangs in the balance we are Anonymous. We do not forgive; we do not forget. Expect US. 1. Paypal is the enemy. DDoSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;es will be planned, but the meantime, boycott everything. Encourage friends and family to do so as well.

Payback now engaged. The feild of You are the troops 2. spread the current leaked cables as much as possible. Save them to hard drives, distribute them on CD’s mirror them to webistes and seed them n that can only be stopped by shutting the entire internet. 3. Up-vote Julian on the times 2010 person of the year. While this might not aid his cause, it will get him much needed public exposure (hhtp.//tinyurl.com/2wb7ju8) 4. Get voval! Twitter, Myspace, Faceook and other social networking sites are critical hubs is aware of what is happening. If you can convince just one other person every day, the spread of the info will be exponential. 5. If your’ve up for it, print cables are relevant to you area and distribute them. Post them on bus, trains stops and others. Be creative and catch people’s attention. Using graffiti to spread the Wikileaks webiste is also a great indead. 6. Complain to your MP, or whichever political figure you can contact. Ask him for comments about the leaks. Record every worked that is said. 7. Protest! Organise community marches, send around petitions, get active. This cannot happen without numbers.

Operation Paperstorm

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to hit them in their own world Spread the information to everyone in all places. They can no longer stand or lie to us. Run, run and run, spread it in your city, town or street! And together, we shall give them a Christmas that shall never, ever be forgot.

Print a logo, manifest or whatever you want to be visible and striking. Forget previous steps (just ideas).

Race through the streets and distributes your message. Use the darkness, you are invisible..

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OPERATION TITSTORM Operation Titstorm was a series of cyber attacks by the Anonymous online community against the Australian government in response to proposed internet censorship regulations. Australian Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy was the architect of the plan that would mainly filter sites with pornographic content. Various groups advocating an uncensored internet, along with web based companies such as Google and Yahoo!, object to the proposed filter. The denial-of-service attack resulted in lapses of access to government websites on the 10th and 11th of February 2010. This was accompanied by emails, faxes, and phone calls harassing government offices. The actual size of the attack and number of perpetrators involved is unknown. It drew criticism from other filter protest groups. A spokesperson for Conroy said that the actions were not a legitimate form of protest and called it irresponsible. The initial stage was followed by small in-person protests on 20 February

The operation began as a protest responding to a plan by Australian Telecommunications Minister Stephen Conroy that would require internet service providers to block illegal and what the government deemed as “unwanted” content. Websites to be blocked feature pornography showing rape, bestiality, child sex abuse, small-breasted women (whomay appear under the legal age), and female jaculation Drawn depictions of such acts are included in the proposal The also includes gambling sites along with others showing drug use. A leaked version of the proposed blacklist also showed sites that did not include adult content. The name “Operation Titstorm” was in reference to the materil that would be censored.

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Operation Italy Rowing Back On To Talitarianism?

Today, you may have noticed your government’s main citizen portal (www.governo.it) has been attacked and rendered offline. The hacker group known as “Anonymous” is responsible for this attack. Why you may ask? As a loosely knit group we fight for the fundamental rights of freedom of speech, of information and the human rights of ALL individuals, not a narrow selection of fortunate souls as deemed appropriate by the Catholic Church.

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Servio Berlusconi currently enjoys almost complete control over mainstream information. Important facts are hidden from the public, such as the deplorable 25% rate of youth unemployment, or the 70% rise in LGBT hate crimes recorded since Berlusconi’s term in office.

Net Neutrality. In a country where almost 60% of citizens still only receive a dial-up service, a country where laws could eventually censor vast swathes of content found to be “sensitive” and a country where almost totalitarian resistance to freedom of expression appears to exist. The internet is the last bastion and possibly the coup de grâce of Berlusconi’s attack against liberty.

“Italy earthquake victims should view experience as camping weekend” These are the words of Servio Berlusconi, unfortunately most of the media output from the earthquake ravaged area of L’Aquila has been censored. L’Aquila should be receiving the maximum amount of coverage and public help, instead they have received little support or assistance.

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Operation Tunisia The time for truth has arrived. A time for freedom and transparency. A time for people to express themselves freely and to be heard from anywhere across the world.

To the Tunisian government: Attacks on the freedom of speech and information of your citizens will not be tolerated. Any organization Yet, the Tunisian government has involved in censorship will be targeted. Attacks decided it wants to control this present with false will not cease until the Tunisian government hoods and misinformation and restrict the freedoms hears the claim of freedom from its own people. of their own people - all of this in order to impose It is in the hands of the Tunisian government to upon them their own self-serving vision of the future. bring this to a resolution. However, they can only accomplish this goal by keeping the truth hidden from its citizens and by Oppressive governments of the world putting restrictions on the free access of information. take this as warning: ANONYMOUS has been In doing so, the Tunisian government has made watching recent developments in Spain, France, itself an enemy of ANONYMOUS. ANONYMOUS Hungary, China, Belarus, U.S. and many other can not and will not remain silent while this countries with a great deal of attention. Keep happens. ANONYMOUS has heard the cries for this in mind, for you may be next! freedom from the Tunisian people and has decided to help them win this battle against oppression. To the Tunisian people: We stand together and united against this oppression. ANONYMOUS believes there have This is a battle which is waged, not just for you freedoms of the collective that is humankind. alone, but to serve as a precedent and stateANONYMOUS therefore believes the Tunisian ment to the world. We unite to send a message attempts at censorship are doomed to failure if only that we, in fact, are not simply quiet citizens we, ANONYMOUS, the people, take up our who can be peddled and choked into individual responsibilities. For if only we decide to submission. When forced to by the threat of make it so - it will be done. oppression, we can be loud as hell - and when the people roar it willsend shivers across the spines of all those who want to stifle our freedom and take our precious liberties away.

ANONYMOUS is a banner under which any Citizen can fly. It is a banner that accentuates the bold and loud manner in which we as Citizens must act when we must. Most importantly, ANONYMOUS unites us all regardless of age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, or place of birth. It unites us all and calls upon us as Citizens of the Free World. A world where we, as Citizens, can stand up and make our mark in history. For the events of these times will be the printed words that our children will come to read. Let your children and your childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s children be proud of the fact that you were a part of a revolution that changed the world. A revolution that said: We will not forgive corruption. We will not forget injustice. We will not tolerate the denial of our freedoms, and we will not be silenced!

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Operation Egypt

Anonymous challenges all those who are involved in censorship. Anonymous wants you to offer free access to uncensored media in your entire country. When you ignore this message, not only will we attack your government websites, Anonymous will also make sure that the international media sees the horrid reality you impose upon your people. Anonymous can not, and will not stand Anonymous will not spare anybody who supports idly while people are being denied their basic this suppression. It is in the hands of the Egyptian rights and human liberties. Yet, there are still a government to end this: continue your repression lot of governments worldwide who fail to even and you will be subject to civil protest - lend an ear to aspire to the standard of freedom that was set by the claim of freedom from your people and the the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These hostilities will cease. governments believe they have the right and privilege to impose upon their own people an We stand together and united against this ‘official’ version of ‘reality’ which isn’t in any way oppression. This struggle is not just for you alone, tampered by the truths of everyday life under which but for the whole of humankind. Citizens can no its citizens are living. Anonymous believes this is an longer endure their governments abuse. When outright crime which can not go unpunished. forced by the threat of oppression, we will be loud as hell - and when the people roar, it will send shivers The Egyptian people are living under down the spines of all those who stifle our freedom inhumane conditions; being denied their basic rights and take our precious liberties away. to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, and the free access to information. Anonymous are your brothers and sisters, By imposing censorship upon its own people and your sons and daughters, your parents and your condemning these freedoms, the Egyptian friends, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, government has revealed itself to be criminal, and ethnicity, or place of birth. Anonymous is you. You has made itself an enemy of Anonymous. will not be denied your right to free speech, free press, free association and your universal right to freely access information, both in real life and through the internet.

To the Egyptian government:

To the Egyptian people:

For as Khalil Gibran once said: “Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit...Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are ever lasting and shall never pass away.” Join us on the IRC - irc.anonops.ru #opEgypt ! Join us in this battle for freedom of information world wide!

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Opration Algeria To the Algerian people and government:

The Algerian government imposes, upon its own citizens, intolerable restrictions on their basic liberties. The Algerian government wants to enforce a future where injustices remain unchallenged and where existing exploitation of one man by another remains unpunished. The Algerian government hides the truth from its citizens and denies them free expression and access to information. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s call for an end to censorship. Now is the time for freedom and transparency, a time for people to express themselves freely and to be heard from anywhere across the world. How else than through well informed citizens can a society prosper and flourish?

The Algerian government hereby declares itself an enemy of Anonymous and the people. Anonymous hears the cries for freedom from the Algerian people, and has decided to step up. We cannot, and will not, remain silent while this injustice is being done. Anonymous will help them in this struggleagainst oppression. We believe the Algerian attempts at censorship and oppression are doomed to fail if each one of us takes up our individual responsibilities: For only we, the people, decide to make it so. Restrictions on the freedom of speech and denial of information to your citizens are in direct violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and cannot be tolerated. Anonymous challenges all those who are involved in censorship. Not only will Anonymous take action, Anonymous will also make sure that the international media sees the horrid reality you impose upon your people. It is in the hands of the Algerian government to end this; continue your repression and you will be subject to civil protest - lend an ear to the claim of freedom from your people and the hostility will cease.

To the Algerian people:

We stand together and united against this oppression. This struggle is not just for you alone, but for the whole of mankind. Citizens are no longer quiet, and can no longer be simply peddled and choked into submission. When forced to by the threat of oppression, we can be loud as hell - and when the people roar, it will send shivers down the spines of all those who want to stifle our freedom and take our precious liberties away. Anonymous is your brothers and sisters, your sons and daughters, your parents and your friends, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, or place of birth. Anonymous is you. You will not be denied your right to free speech, free press, free association and your universal right to freely access information, both in real life and through the internet. Join us in this battle for freedom of information worldwide! For as Edmund Burke once said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.â&#x20AC;?

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Opration M.E.S.H You and your country may be expecting revolutions in the near future. After Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent course of action, we fear for every other country as well. Therefore, we at Anonymous would like to jumpstart Operation Mesh. The concept is simple. It will consist of three differenttechnologi es.1.B.A.T.M.A.N.: A mesh network protocol. 2. i2p: A secure, private, law free, and espionage free dark-net program. 3. torrents:We will encourage use of torrents because of how hard they are to stop without i2p. The theory is that it will be even harder when the seeders are untraceable. Additionally, the trackers are impossible to DDoS under the i2p protocol, please join us in this effort to set the world free.

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Demonstrations and mass protests broke out in Tunisia on December 17, 2010 when 26 year old Mohamed Bouazizi, an unemployed university graduate was trying to support himself by selling fruit and vegetables in the city of Sidi Bouzid.Police approached Mr. Bouazizi, telling him he did not have the proper permission and confiscated his entire stock. Bouazizi then, in an act of desperation and outrage, set himself on fire in the city streets in a grim demonstration against his Governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policies. He died as a result of his burns on January 4th 2011. Protesters and demonstrators took to the streets shortly afterward, enraged at the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rising cost of living, high unemployment rate, media blackouts brought on by the Government, and its mass censorship of the internet and other media sources. The revolution in Tunisia sparked a relvolution through out the Middle-East, other protests in the middle east with the same effect of freedom in Tunisia, but sadly not in others.

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. V for Vendetta James McTeigue and Alan Moore

Tunisia In African country of Tunisia on December 17, 2010 when 26 year old Mohamed Bouazizi, an unemployed university graduate was trying to support himself by selling fruit and vegetables in the city of Sidi Bouzid. Police approached Mr. Bouazizi, telling him he did not have the proper permission and confiscated his entire stock. Bouazizi then, in an act of desperation and outrage, set himself on fire in the city streets in a grim demonstration against his Government’s policies. He died as a result of his burns on January 4th 2011. Protesters and demonstrators took to the streets shortly afterward, enraged at the county’s rising cost of living, high unemployment rate, media blackouts brought on by the Government, and its mass censorship of the internet and other media sources. The official death toll so far has been said to be just over 20, but the International Federation of Human Rights has said the death toll is at least 66 in the last month alone. Reports sent by protesters show thousands of Tunisians taking to the streets in the country’s capital and also report brutal incidents with both Police Forces, and the regime’s Special Forces, the B.O.P. Ben Ali, the Tunisian president, is tried to do everything he can to save himself, his family and the corrupt politicians he surrounds himself with. He and his cronies are the source of the problems Tunisian citizens are facing. He tries to solve the resistance to his tyranny by firing on his citizens. He tries to combat dissent with censorship and threats.Protesters throw rocks, and the police respond with bullets. However, brute force cannot kill an ideology. The Tunisian revolt won’t be so easy to stop.

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The 2010â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2011 Tunisian protests, also known as the Jasmine Revolution, are a continuing series of street demonstrations taking place throughout Tunisia from December 2010 onwards. The demonstrations and riots were reported to have started overunemployment, food inflation, corruption, freedom of speech and poor living conditions. The protests led to the ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who stepped down from the presidency and fled Tunisia on 14 January 2011 after 23 years in power.

Four Egyptians have set themselves on fire, thinking maybe we can have a revolution like Tunisia... maybe we can have freedom, justice, honour and human dignity. Today, one of these four has died, and I saw people commenting and saying: "May God forgive him, he committed a sin, and killed himself for nothing." People, have some shame. I posted that I, a girl, am going down to Tahrir Square and I will stand alone... and I'll hold up a banner, perhaps people will show some honour. I wrote my number, so maybe people will come down with me. No one came except three guys! Three guys, and three armoured cars of riot police! And tens of hired thugs, and officers, came to terrorise us. They shoved us roughly away from the people. But as soon as we were alone with them, they started to talk to us. They said: "Enough, these guys who burned themselves were psychopaths!" Of course, on all national media, whoever dies in protest is a psychopath. If they were psychopaths, why did they burn themselves at the Parliament building? I'm making this video to give you one simple message: We want to go down to Tahrir Square on January 25th. If we still have honour and want to live in dignity on this land, we have to go down on January 25th. We'll go down and demand our rights, our fundamental human rights. I won't even talk about any political rights... We want our human rights and nothing else. This entire government is corrupt - a corrupt president and a corrupt security force. These self-immolators were not afraid of death but were afraid of security forces! Can you imagine that? Are you also like that? Are you going to kill yourselves too? Or are you completely clueless? I'm going down on January 25, and from now till then I'm going to distribute fliers in the street everyday. I will not set myself on fire! If the security forces want to set me on fire, let them come and do it. If you think yourself a man, come with me on January 25. Whoever says women shouldn't go to protests because they get beaten... let him have some honour and manhood and come with me on January 25. Whoever says it is not worth it because there will be only a handful of people, I want to tell him you are the reason behind this. And you are like a traitor, just like the President or any security cop who beats us in the streets. Your presence with us will make a difference, a big difference.Talk to your neighbours, your colleagues, friends and family and tell them to come. They don't have to come to Tahrir Square, just go down anywhere and say it - that we are free human beings. Sitting at home and just following us on news or Facebook leads to our humiliation, my own humiliation. If you have honour and dignity as a man, come. Come and protect me and other girls in the protest. If you stay at home, then you deserve all that's being done to you. And you will be guilty, before your nation and your people. And you'll be responsible for what happens to us on the street while you sit at home.Go down to the street, send SMSes, post it on the Net... make people aware. You know your own social circle, your building, your family, your friends... tell them to come with us. Bring five people, or ten people; if each of us manages to bring five or ten to Tahrir Square and talk to people and tell them, this is enough. Instead of setting ourselves on fire, let us do something positive. It will make a difference, a big difference. Never say there's no hope. Hope disappears only when you say there's no hope. So long (as) you come down with us, there will be hope.Don't be afraid of the government, fear none but God. God says that He "will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselvesâ&#x20AC;? (Qur'an 13:11). Don't think you can be safe anymore. None of us are. Come down with us and demand your rights, my rights, your family's rights. I am going down on January 25th, and I will say "No" to corruption, "No" to this regime! Meet Asmaa Mahfouz that Helped Spark the Revolution

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Bouazizi’s actions have resonated across the region “There is great interest. The Egyptian people and the Egyptian public have been following the events in Tunisia with so much joy, since they can draw parallels between the Tunisian situation and their own.” An economic analyst also suggested instability could spread to Libya and Saudi Arabia. An analyst on Al Jazeera added Algeria as well and cited Western concerns as their intelligence bureaus base large parts of their Arab networks in unisia. However, a financial analyst in Dubai suggested that “the spill over effect of the political turbulence to the large countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council is non-existent as there are no similar driver.” After the beginning of the uprising in Tunisia, similar protests took place in almost all Arab countries from Morocco to Iraq, as well as in other states, ranging from Gabon to Albania, Iran, Kazakhstan, and China. Following weeks of protests, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak resigned on 11 February. Major protests against longtime Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi broke out on 17 February. Despite widespread use of force by Gaddafi’s government, the opposition took over control of large parts of the country. In addition, Yemen, Bahrain, and Algeria saw major protests.

Labour unions were said to be an integral part of the protests. The protests inspired similar actions throughout the Arab world; the Egyptian revolution began after the events in Tunisia and also led to the ousting of Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s long time president Hosni Mubarak; furthermore, protests have also taken place in Algeria, Yemen, Libya, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq, Mauritania,Pakistan and elsewhere in the wider North Africa and Middle East. Following Ben Aliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s departure, a state of emergency was declared. A caretaker coalition government was also created, including members of Ben Aliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s party, the Constitutional Democratic Rally (RCD), in key ministries, while including other opposition figures in other ministries, with elections to take place within 60 days. However, five newly appointed non-RCD ministers resigned almost immediately, and daily street protests in Tunis and other towns around Tunisia continued, demanding that the new government have no RCD members and that the RCD itself be disbanded.

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In 27 January Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi reshuffled the government, removing all former RCD members other than himself. On 6 February the new interior minister suspended all party activities of the RCD, citing security reasons. The party was dissolved, as protesters had demanded, on 9 March 2011. Following further public protests, Ghannouchi himself resigned on 27 February, and Beji Caid el Sebsi became Prime Minister; two other members of the Interim Government resigned on the following day. On 3 March 2011, the president announced that elections to a Constitutional Assembly would be held on 24 July 2011; this likely means that general elections will be postponed to a later date.

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Battle of Egypt

1 February 2011: Mubarak made a televised address once again after unceasing protests, and offered several concessions. He pledged he would not run for another term in elections planned for September, and pledged political reforms. He stated he would stay in office to oversee a peaceful transition. Small but violent clashes began that night between pro-Mubarak and anti-Mubarak groups.

25 January 2011: The “Day of Revolt”, protests erupted throughout Egypt, with tens of thousands of protestors gathered in Cairo and thousands more in cities throughout Egypt. The protests targeted President Hosni Mubarak’s government, 2 February 2011: “Battle of the Camel”. Violence and mostly adhered to non-violence. None the less escalated as waves of Mubarak supporters met reports emerged of civilian and police casualties. anti-government protesters, and some Mubarak supporters rode on camels and horses into Tahrir 28 January 2011: The “Friday of Anger” protests Square. The clashes were believed to have been began. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated in orchestrated by Habib El Adly, and there were Cairo (which also saw the arrival of opposition hundreds of casualties. The military tried to limit leader Mohamed ElBaradei) and other Egyptian the violence, repeatedly separating anti-Mubarak cities after Friday Prayers. There were reports of and pro-Mubarak groups. President Mubarak looting, and prisons were opened and burned reiterated his refusal to step down in interviews with down on orders from then Minister of the Interior several news agencies. Incidents of violence toward Habib El Adly, causing prison inmates to escape journalists and reporters escalated amid speculation en-masse, in what was believed to an attempt to that the violence was being actively aggravated by terrorize protesters. The prison breaks were coupled Mubarak as a way to end the protests. with the complete withdrawal of police forces from the streets. The military was ordered to deploy to 6 February 2011: Egyptian Christians held Sunday assist the police. International fears of violence grew, Mass in Tahrir Square, protected by a ring of but no major casualties were reported. President Muslims. Negotiations involving Egyptian Vice Hosni Mubarak made his first address to the nation, President Omar Suleiman and representatives of after 4 days of ongoing protests and pledged to form the opposition commenced amid continuing protests a new government. throughout the nation.The Egyptian army assumed greater security responsibilities, maintaining 29 January 2011: The military presence in Cairo order and guarding Egypt’s museums. Suleiman increased, and a curfew was declared, but protests offered reforms, while others of Mubarak’s increased and even continued throughout the night. regime accused foreign nations, including the The military reportedly refused to follow orders to US, of interfering in Egypt’s affairs. fire live ammunition, and exercised restraint overall. There were no reports of major casualties.

10 February 2011: Mubarak formally addressed Egypt amid speculation of a military coup, but rather than resigning (as was widely expected), he simply stated he would delegate some of his powers to Vice President Suleiman, while continuing as Egypt’s head of state. Reactions to Mubarak’s statement were marked by anger, frustration and disappointment, and throughout various cities there was an escalation of the number and intensity of demonstrations. 11 February 2011: The “Friday of Departure”: Massive protests continued in many cities as Egyptians refused the concessions announced by Mubarak. Finally, at 6:00 p.m. local time, Suleiman announced Mubarak’s resignation, entrusting the Supreme Council of Egyptian Armed Forces with the leadership of the country. 13 February 2011: The Supreme Council dissolved Egypt’s parliament and suspended the Constitution in response to demands by demonstrators. The council also declared that it would hold power for six months, or until elections could be held. Calls were made that the council provide more details and specific timetables and deadlines. Major protests subsided but did not end. In a gesture to a new beginning, protesters cleaned up and renovated Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the demonstrations, although many pledged they would continue protests until all demands had been met.

17 February 2011: The army stated it would not field a candidate in the upcoming presidential elections. Four important figures of the former regime were detained on that day: former interior minister Habib el-Adly, former minister of housing Ahmed Maghrabi and former tourism minister Zuheir Garana, as well as steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz. 2 March 2011: The constitutional referendum has been tentatively scheduled for 19 March 2011, but the date is yet to be officially confirmed. 3 March 2011: A day before large protests against him were planned, Ahmed Shafik stepped down as PM and was replaced by Essam Sharaf. 5 March 2011: Several State Security Intelligence (SSI) buildings were raided across Egypt by protesters, including the headquarters for Alexandria Governorate and the main national headquarters in Nasr City, Cairo. Protesters state they raided the buildings to secure documents they believed to show various crimes committed by the SSI against the people of Egypt during Mubarak’s rule. 6 March 2011: From the Nasr City headquarters protesters acquired evidence of mass surveillance and vote rigging, and noted rooms full of videotapes, piles of shredded and burned documents, and cells where activists recounted their experiences of detention and torture.

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Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Role Egyptian women actively participated in virtually all roles during the revolution. They partook in the protests themselves, were present in news clips and on Facebook forums, and were part of the leadership during the Egyptian revolution. In Tahrir Square, women volunteers, some withtheir children, worked to support the protests. The remarkable overall peacefulness of the protesters, despite great provocations, was credited to the participation of a great many women and children. The demographic inclusiveness of the protesters in Tahrir Square was visible in the large number of women that participated. Many wore head scarves and other signs of religious conservatism, while others revelled in the freedom to kiss a friend or smoke a cigarette in public. Egyptian women also organized, strategized, and reported the events; Bloggers such as Leil Zahra Mortada took grave risks to keep the world informed daily of the scene in Tahrir Square and elsewhere. The wide participation and the significant contributions by Egyptian women to the protests have been attributed to the fact that many, especially younger women, are better educated than previous generations, representing for instance more than half of Egyptian university students. This has been an empowering factor for women, who have become more present and active publicly in recent years. The advent of social media has also helped provide tools for women to become protest leaders. 106

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Died in her belief in seeing Egypt free and a central role of women in the demonstrations.

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Sharif Abdel Kouddous Tahrir Square, Cairo Democracy Now. Cairo, Egypt—I grew up in Egypt. I spent half my life here. But Saturday, when my plane from JFK airport touched down in Cairo, I arrived in a different country than the one I had known all my life. This is not Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt anymore and, regardless of what happens, it will never be again. In Tahrir Square, thousands of Egyptians– men and women, young and old, rich and poor– gathered today to celebrate their victory over the regime’s hated police and state security forces and to call on Mubarak to step down and leave once and for all. They talked about the massive protest on Friday, the culmination of three days of demonstrations that began on January 25th to mark National Police Day. It was an act of popular revolt the likes of which many Egyptians never thought they would see during Mubarak’s reign.

“The regime has been convincing us very well that we cannot do it, but Tunisians gave us an idea and it took us only three days and we did it,” said Ahmad El Esseily, a 35 year-old author and TV/radio talk show host who took part in the demonstrations. “We are a lot of people and we are strong.” In Cairo, tens of thousands of people-from all walks of life--faced off against riot police armed with shields, batons, and seemingly endless supplies of tear gas. People talked about Friday’s protest like a war; a war they’d won. “Despite the tear gas and the beatings, we just kept coming, wave after wave of us,” one protester said. “When some of us would tire, others would head in. We gave each other courage.” After several hours, the police were forced into a full retreat. Then, as the army was sent in, they disappeared. The military was greeted warmly on the streets of Cairo. Crowds roared with approval as one soldier was carried through Tahrir square today holding a flower in his hand. Dozens of people clambered onto tanks as they rode around the square. Throughout the day people chanted: “The people, the army: one hand.” While the police and state security forces are notorious in Egypt for torture, corruption and brutality, the army has not interacted with the civilian population for more than 30 years and is only proudly remembered for having delivered a victory in the 1973 war with Israel. A 4pm curfew set for today was casually ignored with people convinced the army would not harm them.

The police were a different story. Their brutality the past few days--decades in fact--has been well documented. Saturday, some of the police forces were holed up inside their headquarters in the Interior Ministry building near the end of a street connected to Tahrir Square. When protesters neared the building, the police began firing live ammunition at the crowd, forcing them to flee back to the square. Three bloodied people were carried out. “The police are killing us,” one man yelled desperately while on the phone with al Jazeera from outside the building. When the firing stopped, defiant protesters began approaching the building again. In the background, the smoking, blackened shell of Hosni Mubarak’s National Democratic Party headquarters served as an ominous reminder of their intentions. At this point it seems clear the people are not leaving the streets. They own them now and they are refusing to go until Mubarak does. They chanted, “Mubarak, the plane is waiting for you at the airport,” and “Wake up Mubarak, today is your last day.” At one point, a rumor spread through Tahrir Square that Mubarak had fled the country. A massive cheer rippled through the crowd. People began jumping up and down in joy. One man wept uncontrollably. When it turned out not to be true, the cheers quickly ended but it provided a brief glimpse of the sheer raw desire for Mubarak’s ouster. Reports now indicate that Mubarak’s two sons and his wife, Suzanne, have fled Egypt, as have some of his closest business cronies. Many people believe that is a sign that Hosni will not be far behind. There is a great sense of pride that this is a leaderless movement organized by the people. A genuine popular revolt. It was not organized by opposition movements, though they have now joined the protesters in Tahrir.

The Muslim Brotherhood was out in full force today. At one point they began chanting "Allah Akbar" only to be drowned out by much louder chants of "Muslim, Christian, we are all Egyptian." As the sun set over Cairo, silence fell upon Tahrir square as thousands stopped to pray in the street while others stood atop tanks. After the sunset prayer, they held a 'ganaza'–a prayer for those killed in the demonstrations. Darkness fell and the protesters, thousands of them, have vowed to stay in the square, sleeping out in the open, until Mubarak is ousted. Meanwhile, across Cairo there is not a policeman in sight and there are reports of looting and violence. People worry that Mubarak is intentionally trying to create chaos to somehow convince people that he is needed. The strategy is failing. Residents have taken matters into their own hands, helping to direct traffic and forming armed neighborhood watches, complete with checkpoints and shift changes, in districts across the city. This is the Egypt I arrived in today. Fearless and determined. It cannot go back to what it was. It will never be the same.

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Domino Effect Revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests which have been taking place in the Middle East and North Africa since December 2010. To date Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have seen revolutions of historical consequence, Algeria, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, and Yemen have all seen major protests, and minor incidents have occurred in Kuwait, Mauritania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan and Syria. The protests have shared techniques of civil resistance in sustained campaigns involving strikes, demonstrations, marches and rallies, as well as the use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter to organise, communicate, and raise awareness in the face of attempts at state repression and Internet censorship. Some of these events, notably the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, which have ended in regime change, have been called revolutions.

Numerous factors have led to the protests, including dictatorship, human rights violations, Wikileaks cables which demonstrate government corruption, unemployment, and extreme poverty, coupled with a large percentage of youth within the population. Increasing food prices and rates of famine globally have also been a major reason, involving threats to food security worldwide and prices approaching levels seen during the 2007â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2008 world food price crisis.

The protests began on 18 December 2010, in Tunisia, following Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation in protest at police corruption and ill-treatment. Due to similar hardships in the region and ultimately successful protests in Tunisia, a chain of unrest was started which was followed by protests in Algeria, Jordan, Egypt and Yemen, and to a lesser degree in other, mostly Arab, states. In many cases the climactic days have been termed “day of rage” or some variation there of.

Around the same time, Jordan’s King Abdullah named a new prime minister and the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, announced that he would not seek another term in office in 2013, after what would then be 35 years of rule. During the on going uprising against Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announced he would not seekre-election in 2015. Despite Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announcing he would not seek re-election in 2014, increasingly violent demonstrations urging him to To date, two heads of state have resign have mounted. been overthrown—Tunisia’s on 14 Both the volatility of the January and Egypt’s on 11February. protests and their profound Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution led President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to geopolitical implications have drawn flee to Saudi Arabia. In Egypt, massive global attention and excitement. The possibility has been raised of the protests began on 25 January, and after 18 days of protests, President protesters being nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. Mubarak, who had ruled Egypt for 30 years, resigned on February 11. 113

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Aftermath In May 2010, WikiLeaks said they had video footage of a massacre of civilians in Afghanistan by the US military which they were preparing to release. Also in January 2011, Rudolf Elmer, a former Swiss banker, passed on data containing account details of 2,000 prominent people to Assange, who stated that the information will be vetted before being made publicly available at a later date. As more of these leaks are being published by WikiLeaks created a backlash around the world, where governments such as USA talks about internet kill switch towards the first breath on the beginning of the revolution in the middleast.

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Pirate Party The PPI statutes give its purposes as:

To help establish, to support and promote, and to maintain communication and co-operation between pirate parties around the world. The PPI also has goals of raising awareness of, spreading and unifying the pirate movement through coordination, information-sharing, and assisting in the foundation of new pirate parties. The party strives to reform laws regarding copyright and patents. The agenda also includes support for a strengthening of the right to privacy, both on the Internet and res extensa (physical life), and the transparency of state administration.

The PPI is governed by a board, led by two co-chairs. The current co-chairmen of PPI are Gregory Engels and Jerry Weyer. Policy, governance, and applications for membership is the responsibility of the PPI's general assembly, which must meet at least once per year.

Pirate party was the Swedish Pirate partiet, founded on January 1, 2006. Other parties and groups were formed in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain. In 2007, representatives of these parties met in Vienna, Austria to form an alliance and plan for the 2009 European Parliament elections. Further conferences were held in 2008 in Berlin and Uppsala, the latter leading to the “Uppsala Declaration” of a basic platform for the elections. In September 2008, Andrew Norton (United States) was appointed as coordinator of the PPI collective. In August 2009 he stepped down and passed the function of coordinator over to the “core team” lead by Patrick Mächler and Samir Allioui. On 18 April 2010 the Pirate Parties International was formally founded in Brussels at the PPI Conference from April 16 to 18. On 17 January 2011 an activist of the Tunisian Pirate Party, Slim Amamou, was appointed Secretary of State of Youth and Sport in the Tunisian government.

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WikiLeaks Threat In a document titled "The WikiLeaks Threat"three data intelligence companies, PlantirTechnologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies, outline a plan to attack Wikileaks. They are acting upon request from Hunton and Williams, a law firm working for Bank of America. The Department of Justice recommended the law firm to Bank of America according to an article in The Tech Herald.

The prosed attacks on WikiLeaks according to the slides include these actions: Feed the fuel between the feuding groups. Disinformation. Create messages around actions of sabotage or discredit the opposing organizations. Submit fake documents and then call out the error. Create concern over the security of the infrastructure. Create exposure stories. If the process is believed not to be secure they are done. Cyber attacks against the infrastructure to get data on document submitters. This would kill the project. Since the servers are now in Sweden and France putting a team together to get access is more straightforward. Media campaign to push the radial and reckless nature of WikiLeaks activities. Sustain pressure. Does nothing for the fanatics, but creates concern and doubt among moderates. Search for leaks. Use social media to profile and identify risky behavior of employees.

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WWWar on the internet The Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act of 2010.

Senator Lieberman has been criticized for giving the President the power touse a “kill switch” which would shut off the Internet. He has called these accusations “total misinformation” and said that “the government should never take over the Internet”. Lieberman further inIs a bill introduced in the Unite States flamed skeptics when he cited China’s similar Senate by Joe Lieberman (Independent Democrat, policy in a backfired attempt to show the policy’s Connecticut), Susan Collins (Republican Party, normalcy. However, the bill would allow the PresMaine), and Tom Carper (Democratic Party, ident to enact “emergency measures” in the Delaware) on June 10, 2010. The stated purpose case of a large scale cyber attack. The original bill of the bill is to increase security in cyberspace and granted the US President the authority to shut down prevent attacks which could diable infrastructure part of the internet indefinitely, but in a later such as telecommunications or disrupt the nation’s amendment the maximum time for which the economy. The legislation would create an Office President could control the network was of Cyberspace Policy and a National-Center reduced to 120 days. After this period, the networks for Cybersecurity and Communications. will have to be brought up, unless Congress approves an extension.

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The Juice Media The Juice Media: Rap News-

The media source for the discerning viewer, delivering a bullet in to restore your faith in the fourth estate; make you nod your head to the beat, even as you shake it in disbelief. Rap News is written and produced by Hugo Farrant and Giordano Nanni in a bedroom studio/suburban backyard in Melbourne, Australia. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Hugo fills the role of the amiable Rap News anchorman, Robert Foster (as well as all the guests who appear on the show). Hailing from Branksome in the UK, Hugo is a prolific rhymer and orator, MC and spoken-word poet who regularly graces the stages and festivals of Melbourne. Having spent six years rhyming and rapping, he now co-writes ~TheJuiceMedia: Rap News with Giordano. - Giordano is the co-writer, composer, editor, director and researcher of Rap News, whose rants and ruminations on current affairs are channeled into rhyme by Robert Foster. Hailing from Italy and South Africa, Giordano is a historian, writer, musician, indy-journaist and - in collaboration with Hugo - news writer. http://thejuicemedia.com/ 128

Our perception of reality expressed as a chart; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lost TV to Murdoch, the press to the sharks; This internet our last channel to connect to the mark. No rhetorical questions at last: If we lose this frequency weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be left in the DARK. RAP NEWS 4: Wikileaks v The Pentagon WWWAR on the Internet Robert Foster

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Arab Spring

The demonstrations and uprisings in the region have been called the Arab Spring by several sources. The protests began on 18 December 2010 in Tunisia, following Mohamed Bouazizi's self-immolation in protest at police corruption and ill-treatment. Due to similar hardships in the region and ultimately successful protests in Tunisia, a chain of unrest was started which was followed by protests in Algeria, Jordan, Egypt, and Yemen, and to a lesser degree in other, mostly Arab, states. In many cases the climactic days have been termed "day of rage" or some variation thereof. The protests in the region have also affected unrest outside the region. To date, two heads of state have been overthrownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Tunisia's on 14 January and Egypt's on 11 February. Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution led President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to flee to Saudi Arabia. In Egypt, massive protests began on 25 January, and after 18 days of protests, President Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled Egypt for 30 years, resigned on 11 February 2011. Numerous factors have led to the protests, including dictatorship, human rights violations, Wikileaks cables which demonstrated government corruption, economic downfall, unemployment, and extreme poverty, along with a large percentage of youth within the population. Increasing food prices and rates of famine globally have also been a major reason, involving threats to food security worldwide and prices approaching levels seen during the 2007â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2008 world food price crisis. In recent decades rising living standards and literacy rates and an expansion in higher education have resulted in an improved human development index in the affected countries. The tension between rising aspirations and a lack of government reform may have been a contributing factor to the protests, as well as anti-Zionism. The place of youth and generation gaps have been underlined.

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Tunisia and Egypt, the first to witness major uprising, differ from other gulf countries, Algeria, Libya by the gift of oil. In all these countries, the concentration of benefices in autocratsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hands, their several decades holding power, too low and too blur share of oil benefits, corruption, and the refusal of youth to silently accept this previous status quo have been mentioned as the main motive for the current movements. For this educated and internet connected wave of youth, many having studied in western countries, autocratic and absolute monarchy are anachronisms. Najma Al-Zidjaly talked about youthquake. While oil income allowed these last governments save time by sudden scholarships and subsides, it is unlikely to stop the ongoing ideological switch.

Around the same time, Jordanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s King Abdullah named a new prime minister and the president of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, announced that he would not seek another term in office in 2013, after what would then be 35 years of rule. During the ongoing uprising against Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir announced he would not seekre-election in 2015. Despite Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announcinghe would not seek re-election in 2014, increasingly violent demonstrations urging him to resign have mounted. Both the volatility of the protests and their profound geopolitical implications have drawn global attention and excitement. The possibility has been raised of the protesters being nominated for the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize.

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On 29 December, clashes with police occurred in Algiers, Algeria, over protests about the lack of housing. At least 53 people were reported to have been injured and another 29 were arrested. In total, three demonstrators were killed, more than 800 people were wounded, and at least 1,100 were arrested. From 12–19 January, a wave of selfimmolation attempts swept the country, beginning with Mohamed Aouichia, who set himself on fire in Bordj Menaiel in protest at his family’s housing. On 13 January, Mohsen Bouterfif set himself on fire after a meeting with the mayor of Boukhadra in Tebessa who was unable to offer Bouterfif a job and a house. Bouterfif was reported to have died a few days later; about 100 youths protested his death, causing the provincial governor to dismiss the mayor. At least ten other self-immolation attempts were reported that week. On 22 January the RCD party organised a demonstration for democracy in Algiers attended by about 300 people, illegal under the State of Emergency in force since 1992; it was suppressed by the police, with 42 injuries. On 29 January, at least ten thousand people marched in the northeastern city of Béjaïa. On 3 February, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced that the 19-year state of emergency would be lifted in the very near future in an apparent bid to stave off unrest, a promise fulfilled on 22 February, when Algeria’s cabinet adopted an order to lift the state of emergency. On 5 February, a major “illegal” march was scheduled for the 12th of the month. On 11 February, nearly 2000 pro-democracy protesters clashed with police forces at the central May 1 square. The government had imposed a ban on all opposition rallies but protesters seemed determined to come out on the streets. Reports claim that the police have blocked all entry points into the capital and are arresting activists. Some feel that Algeria could be the next country after Egypt to see change, but analysts believe the government will silence the protests with its oil and gas wealth.

Protests occurred in many towns in both the north and south of Yemen starting in mid-January. Protesters initially protested against governmental proposals to modify the constitution of Yemen, unemployment and economic conditions and corruption. Their demands increased to calls for President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has been facing internal opposition from his closest advisors since 2009,to resign. A major demonstration of over 16,000 protestors took place in Sana'a on 27 January and human rights activist and politician Tawakel Karman called for a "Day of Rage" on 3 February. Xinhua News said that a million protesters were called for. In response to the planned protest, Ali Abdullah Saleh stated that he will not seek another presidential term in 2013.

Yemen On 3 February, 20,000 people protested against the government in Sana’a, others protested in Aden, in a “Day of Rage” called for by Tawakel Karman, while soldiers, armed members of the General People’s Congress and many protestors held a pro-government rally in Sana’a. Concurrent with the resignation of Egyptian president Mubarak, Yemenis again took to the streets protesting President Saleh on 11 February in what has been dubbed a “Friday of Rage”. The protests continued the days following despite clashes with government advocates.

In a "Friday of Anger" on 18 February, tens of thousands of Yemenis have taken part in anti-government demonstrations in the cities of Sana'a, Taiz and Aden. In the capital, Sana'a, the crowd marched towards the Presidential Palace, chanting anti-government slogans, despite riot police attempting to stop them from doing so. Three people have been killed in the demonstrations; one of them was killed by a hand grenade in the city of Taiz. Reports of gunfire in Aden during a rally as riots flared overnight, with protesters setting fire to a local government building and security forces killing one demonstrator. On 19 February, Yemeni riot police shot and killed one protester and injured at least five as thousands of protesters gathered in the capital Sana’a for a ninth day of protests. Many important figures in the General People’s Congress and in the President’s Cabinet have resigned as a sign of protest against President Ali Abdullah Saleh. On 22 March, President Saleh issued a statement saying that he considered the protests to be a “coup” and that a civil war would eventually ensue if protests continued. 133

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What Next ? Although no one can predict the future, we must prepare for it but the actions of Julian Assange have stirred up a new age of freedom of infromation and because of the actions of one man the world will change. Meanwhile what will happen next? Will these action be remembered as the action of one man in a corrupt world or the actions of a self-righteous man with an agenda of his own... only time will tell.

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Operation Palestine To the Noble People of Palestine,

For the last 65 years you have been forced to live under inhumane conditions by the illegal zionist regime which has occupied your country and denied you your basic rights to food, trade, medicine and transportation, your basic rights to freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, and the free access to information. Anonymous cannot, and will not, stand idly while these injustices are being done. Know that we stand together and united to fight against this oppression. Know that we support you. Know that you are not alone.

Operation Iran To the Noble People of Iran,

They can try to suppress your human dignity,but they can never kill your fighting spirit. They can never kill your freedom. Anonymous are your brothers and sisters, your sons and daughters, your parents and your friends, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, or place of birth. Anonymous is you. United we are strong.

We know how great you are. You have Join us in this battle for freedom of information been killed, jailed, tortured and silenced by the worldwide! illegal regime which has hijacked your country for the past thirty-two years, and yet you still rose up last year against a force that you knew meant you harm. They may kill one person every eight hours, but they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kill your fighting spirit. They canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t kill your freedom. Know that we support you. Know that you are not alone.

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Hello Citizens of the internet. Anonops.tk presents our attack with operation paperstorm. 150 copies were broadcasted through two cities. These flyers were posted at schools, stores, restaurants. And other public facilities as well as on telephone poles and at intersections. We would like you to help take part in this brigade. We ask our fellow operatives to print out these flyers attached and spread them throughout your city. Operation paperstorm was only the beginning. After the global protests on January 15th it is imperative to leave a lasting mark on society. Remember, this is a peaceful protest. Obey all laws, do not destroy any property, do not post flyers on street signs or in mailboxes. Wear your mask and use these shadows to cloak yourself. We are legion. For we are many. Expect us.

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Next Revolution According to a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, 167 countries were classified according to five broad concepts: free and fair election process, civil liberties, functioning of government, political participation and political culture. Countries are graded using these five criteria, then placed into four categories and ranked according to the level of democracy present: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime and authoritarian regime. In the Middle East, the majority of states are classed as authoritarian regimes. However, there are exceptions. Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey and the Palestinian Territories are rated as hybrid regimes, whereas Israel is classed as a flawed democracy (the same rating as nations such as Italy and France). The protests, uprisings and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa beginning in 18 December 2010 and continuing through the present brought about the overthrow of the Tunisian and Egyptian governments. These countries are pending democratization. Many other countries in the region are also calling for democracy and freedom, these include: Algeria, Bahrain, Djibouti, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Mauritania, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan and Syria.

Iran

The 32nd anniversary of the Iranian Revolution was said to have had a low turnout on 11 February 2011. (The state-run Kayhan newspaper claimed a 50 million turnout, despite Iran having a population of only 75 million.) At the behest of Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, opposition leaders called for nationwide protest marches for 14 February. Rumours suggested that the protesters would include university students, lorry drivers and gold merchants from across the country under the umbrella opposition known as the Green movement in what was seenas an inspiration of events from Egypt and Tunisia. The Revolutionary Guard said it would forcefully confront protesters. Opposition activists and aides to Mousavi and Karroubi had been arrested in the days before the protests. The opposition protesters used a similar tactic from the 2009 protests in which they chanted “Allahu Akbar” and “Death to the dictator” into the early morning hours. However, rather than using slogans praising Mousavi like in 2009, protestors have been widely chanting “Mubarak, Ben Ali, Now its time for Seyed Ali”. Reports from the demonstrations of 14 February describe clashes between protesters and security forces in Tehran, where 10,000 security forces had been deployed to prevent protesters from gathering at Azadi Square, where the marches, originating from Enghelab, Azadi and Vali-Asr streets, were expected to converge. Police reportedly fired tear gas and used pepper spray and batons to disperse protesters. Clashes were also reported in Isfahan. It was reported up to a third of a million protesters marched in Tehran alone on 14 February.

Bahrain

The 2011 Bahraini protests are a series of demonstrations in the Gulf country of Bahrain. The Bahraini protests were initially aimed at achieving greater political freedom and respect for human rights, without threatening the monarchy. The protests began in Bahrain on 14 February and were largely peaceful until a night raid on 17 February by police against protestors sleeping at Pearl Roundabout in Manama, in which police killed three protestors. Following the deadly 17 February night raid, the protestors’ aims expanded to a call to end the monarchy. As of 18 February 2011, six people have been killed and hundreds injured. The death toll continues to rise as Bahraini police and military attempt to disperse protesting crowds using tear gas, rubber bullets, and live ammunition. Bahraini army tanks moved in to quash street protests and blocked the Pearl roundabout specifically (which protesters had planned to convert into Bahrain’s Tahrir Square) apart from entries and exits into Manama. The hospital where the dead protesters and mourners have gathered is still very much untouched. After the violent crackdown, protesters started calling for overthrow of the Bahraini King and not just the Prime Minister. On 18 February, government forces opened fire on protesters, mourners and news journalists. On 19 February, protesters occupied Pearl Square after Bahrain’s government orders troops and then police to withdraw. On 22 February, an estimated one hundred thousand people, one fifth of the population of the country, marched. On 14 March, at the request of the Crown Prince, GCC troops led by Saudi Arabia entered the country, opening fire using live rounds against protesters. Several were killed, with over 2,000 injured. Live videos showed soldiers and police killing unarmed civilians in broad daylight, and even preventing wounded from reaching hospitals for medical care.

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