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Anonymous lays down British Operation Unity
THE UK ARM of hacktivist group Anonymous has set forth its plans for Operation Unity, a physical protest designed to bring activists together.
Operation Unity will see events take place on 15 October this year in Hyde Park, said the group, and will see activists march towards Parliament Square.
"Please come armed with banners, flags, placards, flyers, musical instruments and anything else you may want to use to creatively and peacefully express your outrage at the way this government has attacked the most vulnerable in our society to protect the bankers and corporations - the very people who caused the financial meltdown we are all paying for," said the group in its statement as it called for a range of groups to join it.
"We implore all activist groups, unions, political organisations, community groups, students and citizens to stand along side us, unified through our need for social change, for equality, for REAL democracy. By promoting wars for profit and impoverishing whole populations, our ruling classes are depriving us of our right to a free and just society. People are suffering, needlessly, and we simply cannot stand by and allow it to continue any longer."
The plan is to take over Parliament Square and occupy it, Anonymous UK said that it had arranged for musicians to attend and would have an open mic for anyone that wants to speak at the event in protest against the establishment. "Your voices will be heard," it added.
The event is expected to be peaceful and like the Arab Spring revolutions seen earlier this year hopes to press for change through non-violent civil disobedience.
"Unite with us, show the government they can try all they like but they cannot surpress our discontent. Have your voices heard," it added through its Twitter account as it expressed its dissatisfaction with how the country is run and the mess that greedy bankers have put it in.
"We demand a democracy that has a zero tolerance stance on corruption irrespective of class, status or influence," it said in its statement, along with calling for an end to public service cuts and a more "representative democracy".
"It is obvious to all that our representative 'democracy' has failed so we are demanding change, a participatory democracy, a system within which all of our voices are heard," it added.
"We implore every person who recognises the problems with our current political system to unite with us, whether you support Anonymous or not, for the greater good of the country. This is not about Anonymous, this is about the people uniting together to force change." µ
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It is about time that working people stood up to power and demanded change, I personally Cant wait for Anonymous to occupy Wall street! The ordinary people must stand up for their rights against the criminals in Wall Street who have destroyed the worlds economy and plunged the working people into poverty. While innocent people are put out of business these criminals are still rich and employed and will never ever have to face justice because they have friends in high places. Lets hope people turn out in force and show the big shots who’s the real boss. Remember if their is one thing these people fear about the public it is one man one vote! we should use our vote and destroy them ! Power insults justice all the time Just look at the Facebook -V- Pail Ceglia case or the Strauss Khan case , where the innocent victims are being discredited and denied justice because they had the courage to take on the establishment!
We've already got a real democracy:
1 Important issues are ignored by the masses.
2 The minorities argue over the details.
3 The vote goes to the best salesman.
Or democracy was originally a sort of meritocracy by virtue of only the privileged voting. This worked amazingly well but obviously made it hard for the unprivileged to rise. We need a meritocracy based around something less arbitrary. Or maybe many things: education OR money OR patents OR etc, etc Anything to show that you can get of your arse and drive this country a little.
As a filipino who participated in the People's Power (mostly bloodless)
revolutions in the Philippines,
i fail to see how lying down and just letting your freedoms, your priveleges etc
as a citizen be taken away from you and any action to peacefully take back what was yours as a citizen be constructive.
You may not agree with everything Anonymous does but there are times that
Anonymous can be Magnanimous and even if it weren't Anonymous callingout for change, the message is noteworthy and
it is time for the the British Citizens to demonstrate to those in power that they will not be serfs anymore.
Western democracy is under attack and its coming from the most powerful, influential people and institutions from above.
Its time that the downtroden masses rescue their democracy.
Just talking about it and not doing anything about it is enough for the incumbent corrupt to stay in power.
Would you like that?
"armed".
But then a presumably unauthorised march on Westminster and Parliament won't be well received anyway - particularly the "occupy Parliament Square" part.
The point being "to creatively and peacefully express your outrage at the way this government has attacked the most vulnerable in our society to protect the bankers and corporations", and something about wars, as well.
Where do we go "to creatively and peacefully express your outrage at the way" Anonymous has attacked World Wide Web services broadly at random? I suppose maybe here.
Oi Anonymous
Who do you think you are eh
Hope it bloody rains