Worldwide: Feb. 23, 2013 - Support whistleblower Bradley Manning, jailed for 1000 days so far

"Events planned across the U.S. and internationally will mark WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning’s 1000th day in prison without trial.  They include protests, vigils, hip-hop performances, concerts, art and theater."

"Bradley’s trial, which threatens a truth-chilling life sentence, is now expected to start on June 3, 100 days after our Feb 23 International Day of Action."

"There has never been a more important time to broadcast our message of support for exposing war crimes, international justice, and people’s right to know what the government does in our name."

You can learn more and find events near you or organize one, here:

http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/update-21813-nearly-40-events-to-mark-bradley-mannings-1000-day-imprisoned-without-trial

Please spread the word.

Saber tags the sky over New York City

“Artists”, Saber in the sky over NYC 2012 NYC 2012 (photo © Eszter Klajman)

Lots more to see and read about this at BSA:
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2012/09/23/saber-tags-sky-over-new-york-and-bashes-romney/

London, Oakland, Palo Alto announced: We Are Legion, the story of the hacktivists

http://wearelegionthedocumentary.com/about-the-film/
About the film [It's great! Go see it.]

http://wearelegionthedocumentary.com/category/film-news/
Watch this link or sign up for email notification for screening locations. See it while you can.

NYPD buff Ket production protesting police and corporate murderers

CT, Hartford: New community center needs furniture, eqt., and art supplies

"We are opening up a Grassroots community center in the Parkville area, near Stop and Shop New Park Ave. We will be naming it
L.X.Y.(League of Xtraordinary Youth) center of Health, Music, Art and Dance

"We are asking for any help with office equipment, computers, tables, art supplies - anything that can help us fill in the space to better welcome the Youth and Community.

"Our mission is to develop a positive community of empowered youth, who will enact a positive change on society. We will be doing this through Music, Technology, Dance and Arts. Please contact us if you can help us."

Thank you,

undergroundcoalition@gmail.com
Zulu Camacho

Graffiti as Tactical Urban Wireless Network

Stop Cyber Spying - a week of action against CISPA

https://cyberspying.eff.org/

Please participate. CISPA is worse than SOPA/ACTA and it already passed the House of Representatives in the US. It affects everyone whose internet traffic crosses US servers. Basically everyone. It's a Big Brother move to remove due process and allow spying on anyone's internet traffic anytime, for any alleged reason. 

Related: Find out if your representatives voted for it and complain to them and the corporate sponsors named. They deserve your contempt.

The Senate and those companies need to hear the noise we make about this online and on their phones, in the next few days. We can't depend on the President to veto it, because his track record on civil liberties is very poor so far.

News: Microsoft just withdrew their support. 

USA: The reps who voted for SOPA/PIPA and are up for re-election - Your Anon News

Why all the non-graffiti posts?

I've been posting a lot about freedom, liberty, privacy, and censorship because if we don't act to save the internet and our countries from corporate and authoritarian control now, we might not get the chance to do it again.

The laws that corporations are paying lawmakers to enact threaten networked civilization, globally. Anything that criminalizes painting and showing cartoon characters and other popular culture themes in art threatens graffiti, and it threatens Art Crimes.

Please educate yourselves about these issues because your future depends on you doing smart things now to protect yourselves and all of us, through taking positive action to raise some hell while you still can.

Trouble signs in the US for authoritarianism and censorship - proxies

Twitter took on a Saudi investor and now they are censoring tweets in certain countries.  Twitter users plan to stay off Twitter Saturday Feb 28 in protest. But you know, money talks. http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2012/0127/Twitter-censorship-Posts-now-yanked-country-by-country
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2399465,00.asp
Twitter Faces Backlash Over Censorship Plan
http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2012/01/27/worried-about-possible-restrictions-on-twitter-heres-how-to-get-around-them/
How to get around Twitter censorship

The US press freedom rating has plummeted this year with the arrest of journalists over Occupy Wall Street protests:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/26/2315249/us-plummets-on-world-press-freedom-ranking
http://en.rsf.org/press-freedom-index-2011-2012,1043.html

And, as I blogged earlier, Google has decided it's more profitable to be Evil(TM)

How to manage your Google info a bit:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/what-google-knows-about-you-and-how-to-tweak-it.ars

How to get around country blocking and have a bit of privacy on the web, using proxy servers:
http://whatismyipaddress.com/using-proxies
Some configuration info (a bit old but probably works) with a search for proxies (you have to change them from time to time when yours is blocked).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server
Some info about proxies

http://url.sc/
Clickable web proxies. You can start surfing from here. It's a bit busy so if you don't get it right away, try back. The links above probably list more of these. Here's a dump of today's list on url.sc in case it's unavailable:

1. Hide My Ass!
2. Can't Bust Me!
3. Proxy Mafia
4. MySpace Proxy
5. Proxy Pimp

6. Secure Proxy
7. Proxrio
8. 250eu
9. Kroxy
10. Unblock Filters

11. Proxy Buddy
12. Army Proxy
13. Anonr
14. Vulb
15. Invisible Surfing

16. Surfaz
17. Site Surf
18. Our Proxy
19. Web Proxy Pro
20. Hide My Info

Anonymous Communications - How to:
http://www.infoanarchy.org/en/Anonymous_Communications
A bit dated but lots of good education to be had here, from the anarchist community.

This year's guide, from Anonymous:
http://www.sectechno.com/2011/06/30/the-opnewblood-super-secret-security-handbook-by-anonymous/
Read it and download the PDF guide

(Tip: Beware of using the LOIC if you don't know what you're doing. People are in jail today because they didn't know how to hide their location while attacking websites with Anonymous. If you just want to cobble together a better online security setup for yourself, that's not illegal in most countries yet, though.)

Remember: Self incrimination is the worst kind. Be careful what you say on the net, in email, on phones, in texts, because all of that is being collected now and it will be used against you whenever it's convenient to do so. This is not paranoia, this is fact.

The 28th Chaos Communication Congress (hacker camp) took place recently, and you can watch some amazing talks from it here:

http://ondemand.28c3.fem-net.de/
(English and German) I think you'll find these particularly interesting:

4848 (Must see - Cory Doctorow explains. I blogged this before.)

• 4897 Marriage From Hell: On the Secret Love Affair Between Dictators and Western Technology Companies

• 4916 BuggedPlanet

• 4749 Does Hacktivism Matter?

• 4800 How governments have tried to block Tor

Thes are all on YouTube also, on the 28c3 channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/28c3 which seem to be more available for the moment than that streaming server. You can also download them here: http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/28C3/

Occupy graffiti

ACTA is also a worldwide problem - find out more

ACTA - Internet censorship problem moves to Europe - Fight back!

 

 https://www.laquadrature.net/wiki/How_to_act_against_ACTA

Check the progress yesterday's protest made

Video: Internet users and creators explain the worst things about SOPA

#SOPA is a sucker punch by the 1% to the face of our Freedom of Speech! #PIPA a sock to the stomach!

Guess whose voicemail is full? Fax your Congress members from the internet

MC Hammer on SOPA

The best explanation for the internet censorship attempts this week - and it's not over

Funniest SOPA protest at Oatmeal - telling it like it is