Guy Fawkes Day

The Rampage: El Pasoans Protest Corporate Greedmy.hsj.orgThat is a quote from the film V for Vendetta, film that was based off of Guy Fawkes who tried to destroy the government in order to rebuild it. Modern day revolutionaries have adopted the Guy Fawkes mask, featured in the film, as a symbol for any ...  

Alan Moore, author of the V for Vendetta series, discusses the origins of the iconic Guy Fawkes mask and its role in the Anonymous movement in this BBC opinion piece. Without wishing to overstate my case, everything in the observable universe definitely has its origins in Northamptonshire, and the adoption of the V for Vendetta [...]  

Alan Moore, writer of V for Vendetta and enigmatic wizard of comicology, describes the relationship between the Guy Fawkes mask and Anonymous, anti-ACTA protests, and the Occupy movement. Beginning with the Moore-ish phrase, "Without wishing to ...  

Shortly thereafter it began manifesting at anti-globalisation demonstrations, anti-capitalist protests, concerted hacker-attacks upon those perceived as enabling state oppression, and finally on the front steps of St Paul’s… It also seems that our ...  

Apparently inspired by the Polish parliamentarians who showed up for work in Guy Fawkes masks for the signing of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (a US-driven secret copyright treaty), members of Bulgaria's parliament repeated the trick. The MPs say they support copyright laws, but oppose ACTA over its possible turning into an instrument to limit freedom [...]  

Polish politicians donned Guy Fawkes masks in parliament this week, in protest of a SOPA-style anti-piracy agreement signed by the government. Members of the leftwing Palikot’s Movement produced apparently home-made masks – popularized by comic-turned-film V for Vendetta and now largely associated with hack-collective Anonymous - to show their disdain for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) the AP reports. ACTA was signed [...]  

Today is Tuesday, Jan. 31, the 31st day of 2012. There are 335 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 31, 1961, NASA launched Ham the Chimp aboard a Mercury-Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral; Ham was recovered safely from...  

The streets of Poland have erupted in protest on the eve of the country's signing onto ACTA, the secretive copyright treaty that is being rammed through many European Parliaments this year. Members of Parliament showed up for work wearing Anon-style Guy Fawkes masks to show their disapproval. After the signing, protesters rallied in the Polish [...]  

Up the Wolves. We aren't in the bottom 3, we have plenty of games left, we have yet to play those round us 2nd half of the season except QPR who we beat. So the encouraging thing is we aren't playing that well but are still outside the drop zone-if we can find a bit of form and get some luck(as per QPR game) we will be fine, and we are due a little run of results. To blindly follow like sheep is bad, to blindly criticise is worse.  

Monitorhead sez, "I was sitting in my car, staring at a 4-day old empty coffee cup, when I made the connection. Holy cow! Has the #Occupy movement already seeped into the marketing firms (thinking of the cool/hip ads from the late 60's, early 70's, thanks to the hippie movement), making this a hip commercial/cultural observance?" [...]  

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Skipping New Year Eve celebration parties, hundreds of people in Guy Fawkes masks gathered in downtown Kuala Lumpur last weekend in a peaceful protest to demand greater democratic freedom in the country. The “V For Merdeka”, or “V For ...  

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CBS Local'Anonymous' Hackers Claim Attack On American Tear Gas CompanyCBS LocalA protester. wearing an Anonymous Guy Fawkes mask and holding a placard, takes part in a demonstration against controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)(credit: Hrvoje Polan/AFP/Getty Images) LONDON (AP) — Hackers loyal to the Anonymous ...Hackers claim attack on American tear gas companyThe Daily Starall 263 news articles »  

Aljazeera.comMetal, code, flesh: Why we need a 'Rights of the Internet' declarationAljazeera.comreads the caption under the image depicting a group of protesters wearing Guy Fawkes masks and holding both humorous and denunciatory signs, "The internet is here". The caption not only conveys the sentiment that drove US congressmen to drop their ...and more »