" What really made the whole Anonymous thing real for a lot of people and what got them out on the streets wasn’t a like-minded horde of V for Vendetta mask wearing types all marching as one that they wanted to join, but the fact that due to international time zones, the first protest was held in Australia and there was a good turnout, and this protest almost immediately generated an iconic image that’s oddly now almost forgotten as the V for Vendetta mask has become a prominent symbol. It was a teenage girl, in a Hello Kitty T-Shirt and a gas mask. "

" With Occupy protesters gearing up for a spring resurgence, Salisbury spells out just what activists will be up against — think unmanned drones, tanks, and super-sophisticated surveillance systems from New York City to Scottsbluff, Nebraska — in the months ahead. "

"Spying" on PETA? Please. Any company or university involved w/ animal research asks these questions.

" People who look at potentially successful protests elsewhere and imitate them make judgments, often implicit, about how similar their own situation is. These judgments don’t have to be right in order to be powerful. "

" Due to slim pickings, OakFoSho assembles only a 12-person crew. Undeterred, he exhorts them to "go ahead and make something happen right now." Pointing to his left, OakFoSho advises: "We can get out of sight by just walking that way for about 50 yards." One of Oak's recruits interrupts their deliberations to shout at a passing police cruiser driven by a female officer. "Go home, you fascist bitch!" To pad his crew to a baker's dozen, OakFoSho rousts a homeless guy sleeping under a blanket against a light pole. No sale. Homeless Guy prefers to sleep in peace, thanks all the same. "

" "A lot of students are registered voters, and we're against Islamophobia, and bigotry," said Ishigo. "We want them to understand that the UC Irvine community stands in solidarity with the Muslim American community against xenophobia." "

" On May 14, said the LLDF statement, Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, “a Christian pro-life organization dedicated to activating and educating high school and college age individuals, was present to protest the dedication of this expansive facility that touts its reputation in the area of human embryonic stem cell research. The group was there to share a message that human embryonic stem cell research kills human lives!”

" “The pro-life activists consulted the Life Legal Defense Foundation concerning their free speech rights prior to the planned demonstration,” said the statement. “Despite several attempts by the police to move the demonstrators away from the dedication ceremony, the Survivors were able to make their voices heard on the UCI campus, and LLDF attorneys were on hand to answer calls and speak with law enforcement on the day of the event. We at LLDF were proud to defend these brave activists’ rights to speak the truth and to stand against the reckless destruction of life at the new facility.” "

UCLA's PR department announces the triumph of Pro-Test 5 minutes before the rally begins. Including a head count. Um.

SOLIDARITY CUBES

1-1/2 to 2 dozen, marching in a circle for an hour

DEFEND PUBLIC EDUCATION (picture of an AK-47)
COMMUNE NOW
RIOT DOGS AGAINST COPS
WORLD-WIDE CLASS WAR

" But by early Saturday, the military made it clear there would be limits to further dissent as soldiers and plainclothes security officers moved into the square, beating protesters and tearing down their tents, witnesses said. "

" In their essay outlining the social movement society thesis, Meyer and Tarrow (1998b) ask, ‘‘Has something fundamental changed in the politics in contemporary industrial democracies?’’ We answer that in terms of the overall level of protest participation and in the types of people who demonstrate, there has been no fundamental change. We find only a slight trend toward greater participation in demonstrations during the past 35 years, and that cohorts born after the Baby Boomers are much less likely than their parents to have participated in a protest, although we note a small resurgence among individuals born in the 1980s. Combined with the lack of social and demographic diffusions, this suggests that the United States may have a social movement generation, but it is not a social movement society (pg. 146-47). "

" A real grown-up understands that the question is hard, that we need facts on the ground before we can start to answer it. Twitter brings down governments is not a serious idea about the Internet and social change. Refuting it is not a serious activity. It just feels good… for a moment. "

" The army's announcement, which included the suspending of the constitution, was a further rebuff to some pro-democracy activists after troops were sent to clear demonstrators from Cairo's Tahrir Square, the centre of the protests that brought down Hosni Mubarak. "We do not want any protesters to sit in the square after today," said the head of the military police, Mohamed Ibrahim Moustafa Ali. "

" Egypt's military called Monday for an end to the strikes and protests that have practically paralyzed the country since late last month, but thousands of police and other state employees took to the streets to demand better pay and working conditions, and pro-democracy leaders vowed to keep demonstrating if their demands for change are not met. "

" The military leadership gave no timetable for the political transition, and many of the demonstrators who filled Cairo's Tahrir Square for 18 days rejected the military's appeal to dismantle the barricades and go home. They said they were waiting for specific commitments from the military on their demand for a civilian-controlled interim administration, the lifting of the oppressive state of emergency and other steps toward liberalisation. "

Brown's claim is probably correct. Lurk in chat and see for yourself. " The subpoena shows federal investigators are trying to piece together the workings of an elusive group composed of hundreds hackers and activists stretched across several countries. Brown said about a dozen members are able to influence the direction of Anonymous. "

" "You can easily arrest individuals, but you cannot arrest an ideology. We are united by a common objective and we can and will cross any borders to achieve that," Anonymous said in its statement. "

The "war" called for, from the Anonymous press release: "It is clear then, that arresting somebody for taking part in a DDoS attack is exactly like arresting somebody for attending a peaceful demonstration in their hometown. Anonymous believes this right to peacefully protest is one of the fundamental pillars of any democracy and should not be restricted in any way."

" According to the lawsuit, UCLA police have been monitoring the activists' activities, sitting in unmarked cars and taking their pictures with "high powered cameras" before scheduled protests, as well as following them to dinner and threatening them with arrest in order to scare them. "

" The Anonymous web protests over WikiLeaks are the internet equivalent of a mass demonstration. ... They enter through the site's front door, and it just can't cope with the volume. "

" Global chaos is not Anonymous’ aim. As the WikiLeaks and Tunisia cases show, the group targets specific institutions and its attacks are designed to temporarily delay more than destroy. Think of them not as acts of cyber war but as high-profile guerrilla strikes. "

" The self-immolation that set off the protest wave which toppled Tunisia's leader has led to apparent copycat protests in other north African states, with four men setting themselves on fire in Algeria and one each in Egypt and Mauritania. "

" An Egyptian, a Mauritanian and at least four Algerians have set themselves alight over the past five days as a means of protesting against their governments. "

" A Chicago judge will decide this month whether a city code prevents protesters who oppose Scientology's teachings from expressing their discontent any time the church's doors are open or only during its conventional Sunday worship service. "

Let's start chalking up the campus right next to the admin building at 11am hur dur dur

Yes, folks, even PETA knows you need a permit to hold a protest at the National Mall and not have the police tell you to disperse. The smug smile on Trevor's face throughout and his smartass responses are priceless: a textbook example of how to torpedo your movement's image.