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Westboro Baptists claim to discover Internet’s purpose, much to the amusement of ‘Anonymous’
Members of Pastor Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church claim to have discovered the underlying purpose of the Internet: using it “to tell this nation & this world that your destruction draws nigh.” While it was unclear what they thought of other priceless online frivolities, such as lolcats or Something Awful, but there’s…
Cyber-activist’s release galvanises Egypt revolt
CAIRO – Thousands of protesters flooded Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Tuesday, galvanised by the release of a pro-democracy cyber activist as a revolt against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak raged into a third week. The embattled leader took a step earlier Tuesday towards democratic reform, authorising a committee to pursue constitutional…
Seventh Algerian sets herself on fire
ALGIERS — Two people in Algeria set themselves on fire on Wednesday, bringing the country’s total number of attempted public suicides to seven in a week, in replica of a protest that sparked a popular revolution in neighboring Tunisia. A woman in her fifties soaked herself with a flammable product…
Welcome to the cyber sit-in: Many ‘Payback’ protesters easily identified, study finds
Update: ‘Anonymous’ announces ‘Operation Loveback‘: a campaign to send Christmas cards to Bill O’Reilly During the civil rights era, the sit-in became a popular and effective form of protest against businesses that denied service to black people. Though legally ambiguous at first, the harsh reactions of authorities against the peaceful protesters…
‘Bank Run 2010′ aims to end ‘criminal, corrupt’ financial system
In what may be the most subversive reaction yet to global outrage over the financial crisis, a European soccer star has inspired an international “bank run” protest aiming to collapse the global financial system. The organizers of “Bank Run 2010″ have chosen December 7 as the day when protesters are…
London’s mounted police ran at student protesters ‘like a cavalry charge’
Though largely neglected by US mainstream media, British students have been putting up quite a display of defiance in the face of rising tuition costs and government restrictions on university financial aid. In recent weeks students have protested against the austerity measures by staging mostly peaceful gatherings, apart from the…
After tires slashed, Oklahoma townsfolk refuse to help ‘God Hates Fags’ protesters
About a half-dozen members of the Westboro Baptist Church traveled to McAlester, Oklahoma Saturday to picket Army Sgt. Jason James McCluskey’s funeral. Following the protest, the group returned to their minivan to find that the front and rear tires on the passenger side of the vehicle had been slashed. “To…
Pennsylvania Homeland Security monitored residents’ tweets
Emails recently released from a Right-To-Know request show that the Pennsylvania Department of Homeland Security monitored the twitter activity of law-abiding citizens. The emails, obtained by the website PARevolution.com, show that a private firm used twitter to collect intelligence on anti-war protests as a part of their contract with the…
Protest over fatal shooting by LAPD turns violent
Protest over fatal shooting by Los Angeles police turns violent as demonstrators throw bottles A protest over the fatal police shooting of a Guatemalan immigrant turned violent when some demonstrators threw bottles at officers, set trash cans on fire and refused to disperse. Television news footage showed people tossing the…
Exclusive: Anti-war veterans halt Fort Hood deployment to Iraq … for 10 seconds
Ten seconds may not be much time, but to a ragtag group of anti-war activists standing in front of six buses full of soldiers being deployed to Iraq, it can seem an eternity. In the early hours of Monday morning outside Fort Hood, that’s precisely what happened: Five black-clad protesters…
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