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occupy guy

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"A member of Anonymous at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York." Picture taken by David Shankbone on 17 September 2011On 26th September 2011 ↑ Noam Chomsky announced his solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement. The next day ↑ Cornell West addressed the crowd in person. And on 09th October ↑ Slavoj Žižek gave a talk at ↑ Liberty Plaza (formely Zuccotti Park). Not that I am much in synch with Žižek, but it’s the second time this year that I read something from him which made me applaud. Have a snippet from the transcript: In…

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moore on fawkes

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…the protesters appear to be almost a single organism – this “99%” we hear so much about. That in itself is formidable. I can see why the protesters have taken to it.” [...]     But more than 100,000 of the £4-£7 masks sell every year, according to the manufacturers, with a cut always going to Time Warner. Does that irk Moore?     “I find it comical, watching Time Warner try to walk this precarious tightrope.” Through contacts in the comics industry, he explains, he has heard that boosted sales of the masks have become a troubling…

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guy in parliament

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In Ireland they’ve got a saying which roughly goes like this: ‘Guy Fawkes was the only man ever who had honest intentions when he set foot into parliament.’ Well, members of the ↑ Palikot’s Movement protested in a session of the Polish parliament against Poland signing ↑ ACTA (a kind of international version of ↑ SOPA and ↑ PIPA) by holding paper Guy-Fawkes masks in front of their faces :o) See also ↵ occupy guy, ↵ moore on fawkes, and ↵ guy headroom….

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remember

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“Remember, remember … the fifth of November!” Well, well, the fifth of November just broke, and I’m curious what’s going to happen. If ↑ Guy Fawkes, respectively ↵ Alan Moore‘s “↑ V for Vendetta,” and ↑ its movie adaptation of the same name, on the symbolic level really is of such importance to the #OWS movement [see ↵ occupy guy and ↵ guy headroom], then we should expect some occupation today. Above that ↑ Anonymous has announced actions against Facebook and against a mexican drug cartell—that is, if Anonymous indeed announced all of that, and…

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