Tuesday, November 5, 2013

13-11-05 US: Miilion Masks March - media reports

The best source of news, by Google search of  "Million Masks March, DC" is Russia Today (see below).
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2) RUSSIA TODAY:

Million Mask March: LIVE UPDATES

Published time: November 05, 2013 07:38
Edited time: November 05, 2013 22:01
Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks attend a rally outside the House of Representatives in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila on November 5, 2013 (AFP Photo / Jay Directo)
Protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks attend a rally outside the House of Representatives in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila on November 5, 2013 (AFP Photo / Jay Directo)
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Anonymous, Protest
Supporters of the Anonymous hacktivist collective are holding rallies all around the world on November 5, Guy Fawkes Day. They are protesting against what they see as the rule of greedy corporations and corrupt governments around the world.
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21:49 GMT:  Actor and comedian Russell Brand, a noted supporter of anonymous and the Occupy movement, gave a now famous interview last week when he condemned what he sees as a corrupt political system. Brand was also spotted participating in London’s Million Mask March Tuesday, the same day he clarified the statements made in that interview with a column published in The Guardian.
“The only reason to vote is if the vote represents power or change. I don’t think it does,” Brand wrote. “I fervently believe that we deserve more from our democratic system than the few derisory tit-bits tossed from the carousel of the mighty, when they hop a few inches left or right. The lazily duplicitous servants of The City expect us to gratefully participate in what amounts to little more than a political hokey cokey where every four years we get to decide what colour the liar who leads us wears.” 
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21:03 GMT:  Hours after Washington police made arrests protesters could still be found throughout the US capitol. Some of those participating in the Million Mask March made their way past the White House, where demonstrators spoke to Agence Presse-France about the ongoing National Security Agency surveillance. 
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19:55 GMT: The Fox News website was briefly scattered with some bizarre 'headlines' which they later dismissed on Twitter as an 'internal production problem'.  
screenshot from www.foxnews.com
screenshot from www.foxnews.com

19:40 GMT: A Max Keiser poster has been spotted amid the banners wielded by London demonstrators.  
19:08 GMT: Protesters have blocked off a red London bus. 
18:50 GMT: Chants of "here we come, Tory scum" are coming from protesters on Downing Street. RT's Sara Firth estimates that around a thousand are present in total. Russel Brand has been spotted among them. 

18:30 GMT: London protesters have started to march towards Parliament.  

18:25 GMT: Turkish police are out in force, ready to confront people marching in Istanbul. 

18:00 GMT: Yva Alexandrova, of the People's Assembly spoke to RT about the ideological basis for the collective's participation in the protests in London. 
“The People’s Assembly is broad coalition of movements, unions, organizations, activists and campaigns groups, and its brought together to basically reach out to all members of society and send a very loud and clear message that austerity is not a policy that is working for the majority of people in this country and we are going to oppose it,” she explained. 
“Four out of five jobs created are in the low wage sector, so one has to look at where this recovery is going, and who it is working for,” she said.


London's Trafalgar Square is currently swarming with protesters.
17:25 GMT: “We want president Obama to hear that five years after the financial crisis - the banks being bailed out – we’re still suffering, people are still struggling, we’re drowning in debt," said a march participant speaking from Washington DC. 
"We live in a country that’s fundamentally unfair; we no longer have the rule of law. From the NSA, to Edward Snowden, to Chelsea Manning, all over the world, people are speaking out, whistleblowers are speaking out, regular people are speaking out and saying enough is enough. We want justice and we want it now," he added. 
Watch footage from the march in Washington DC: 
17:00 GMT: Crowds have gathered in Amsterdam, joining the hoards of European protesters. 

16:50 GMT: Police and participants of an 'Anonymous' march in Yerevan have clashed, according to Interfax. The detentions apparently began after the organizer announced his intent to "blow up the residence of the President of Armenia."

16:45 GMT: As hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Milan, Italy, hacktivists also took down an Italian website.
Anonymous activists hacked the website ofthe Italinan Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni XXIII at scuolastatte.gov.it
Anonymous activists hacked the website ofthe Italinan Istituto Comprensivo Giovanni XXIII at scuolastatte.gov.it
16:34 GMT: One person has been arrested in Washington DC during a confrontation between protesters and police. People were heard chanting: "Whose streets? Our streets!" as the arrest was made. 
16:10 GMT: “They protest against what they see as a police state, they protest against the persecution of whistleblowers, they protest against Monsanto – the biggest producer of genetically modified seeds…generally  speaking they see themselves as a movement against the government and corporations taking advantage of the people,” said RT’s Gayane Chichakyan from Washington DC. 

One masked participant explained his motivations fro joining  to RT. “First off it would be nice if he [Obama] would stop lying about knowing about the NSA and do something about the NSA,” he said.“Spying on foreign leaders, allies, our own people, our own communications needs to stop, and it needs to stop now,” he added.

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15:25 GMT: Protesters are begin to gather in London's Trafalgar Square. RT's London bureau will be reporting live from the scene.

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15:19 GMT: Arguments over where the protesters can stand rage on, but the protesters have announced their arrival. One demonstrator on a megaphone was imploring other demonstrators to engage in acts of civil disobedience, but was seemingly met with a tepid response. Demonstrators are allowed three opportunities to obey a police order before they risk being detained. 

15:10 GMT:  Protesters outside the White House in Washington DC have successfully negotiated with police to allow them to stay on the sidewalk. Chants of "No justice, No Peace" and "Obama come out, we got somethings to talk about " are intermittently ringing out. 
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15:05 GMT: RadicalMedia, which is dedicated to covering Activist movements, is live streaming the Million Mask March from Washington DC.
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13:55 GMT: The Million Mask March is just kicking off in Washington DC. Event organizers planned to meet up at the Washington Monument at the National Mall and march on to Lafayette Park. Over 17,000 people plan on attending, according to the group’s Facebook page. The stated goal of the march is: "To remind this world what it has forgotten, that fairness, justice and freedom are more than just words."
13:30 GMT: The Philippines are among one of several Southeast Asian states to hold marches as part of the global event. 

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12:50 GMT: Hundreds of protesters in a “spontaneous protest” marching through the streets of Milan, Italy. Rallies are also set to be held in the Italian cities of Florence, Palermo and Rome. 

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12:35 GMT: In Brisbane Australia, meanwhile, the protest attracted more participants than originally expected. Speaking from King George Square, a speaker a rally identified as Steven, told ABC News that the non-centralized nature of Anonymous made it difficult to pinpoint an exact message behind the global rally.

"There’s so much that goes on in our world, and with Anonymous, because there’s so many of us, it’s really hard to have an orderly or structured discussion, rally or march on one point. So it’s probably best that we just incorporate all of them.”
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12:28 GMT: Several hundred people came out to take part in the Million Mask March in Melbourne, Australia. Activists, however, marked a note of overall disappointment with the day's proceedings, with many noting disaffection with the speakers at the event.
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12:05 GMT: Several dozen demonstrators have gathered in Nelson Mandela Square, a popular shopping center in Johannesburg, South Africa, to participate in the Million Mask March. According to the 2012 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index, South Africa ranked 69th out of 176 countries, tied with Brazil and Macedonia. Organizers of the rally put corruption and tax fraud on the top of their agenda.
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09:00 GMT: Anonymous movement is a peaceful pro-people collective with a diverse agenda, one of the masked protesters told 612 ABC Brisbane radio station.
“At the end of the day it is well-known that Anonymous is a non-violent collective, and we actually try to fight for people, for injustices,” the man, who introduced himself as Steven, said.
07:50 GMT: Australia’s Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane were among those holding mask protests on Tuesday.
The country itself has been targeted by Anonymous recently over reported spying on Indonesians. Hackers calling themselves Anonymous Indonesia defaced some 200 websites with the .au domain in a gesture of protest. 
Indonesia itself also had a masked protest on Guy Fawkes Day.
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07:10 GMT: Anonymous Philippines marched to Batasang Pambansa complex Tuesday noon to protest rampant corruption in the country, Manila Bulletin. Police officers briefly blocked the march after it gathered along Quezon City Circle, but later allowed them to proceed to the vicinity of the House of Representatives.
The group has discouraged activists from using banners which would identify their organizations, saying they should keep the protest “anonymous.”
Last Sunday hackers pledging allegiance to the Anonymous cause attacked at least 39 local and national government websites in the Philippines, drawing extra public interest to the Tuesday protest.
07:00 GMT: In Japan the Guy Fawkes-themed action had an environmental twist, as masked activists made their contribution to cleaning the streets.  
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