I hear this all the damn time
A 500% (PERCENT!) increase in incarceration rates over the past thirty years. But don’t sweat it. You keep your head down. You focus on your work. You do what you’re told.
You just keep telling yourself everything’s fine. It’s what THEY would want.
I am Free
Chicago Frankfurt Montreal protests
Things have been quiet around the ol’ raincoaster blog lately, mostly because I tried to update Ubuntu like a good little open sourcer and the feculent motherfucker has now stuck my computer in an endless reboot cycle, thanks SO much. Dear Hive Mind: watch your back.
This is because I downloaded Suelette Dreyfus‘s book Underground, isn’t it?
In any case, this is a good time to get back online, even with an outdated, borrowed computer that I can play X’s and O’s on just by writing in the dust of the lid. Because while I was doing nothing much at all but whining at the computer and seeking out home remedies for my (unending) toothache, people in Montreal, Chicago, and Frankfurt were real busy.
Black Bloc Cop
I think this guy got his uniforms mixed up. He should be a hit at NATO duty, when he wears the Guy Fawkes mask with the dress uniform. Black Bloc Boy is giving him total side-eye.
Cops in Chicago
Chicago el protesto
That caption? Not real Spanish, y’all.
We TOLD you to expect us!
This one is almost certainly British, because David Cameron simply doesn’t register outside of the UK. I can see one Anonymous flag, but can’t make out anything else except much nicer architecture than we have in Vangroover.
And, finally, Anonymous has re-posted its guide to secure browsing. The typos are glaring, but the advice is good, and you do not have to actually understand the instructions to follow the instructions. Like a lot of technical things, it makes more sense the more you use it. I mean, you don’t really know how your car engine works, do you? But you can drive, right?
=== The Ultimate Guide for Anonymous and Secure Internet Usage v1.0.1 ===
Table of Contents:
- Obtaining Tor Browser
- Using and Testing Tor Browser for the first time
- Securing Your Hard Drive
- Setting up TrueCrypt, Encrypted Hidden Volumes
- Testing TrueCrypt Volumes
- Securing your Hard Disk
- Temporarily Securing Your Disk, Shredding Free Space
- Installing VirtualBox
- Installing a Firewall
- Firewall Configuration
- Installing Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Initial Setup
- Installing Guest Additions
- Installing IRC (Optional)
- Installing Torchat (Optional)
- Creating TOR-Only Internet Environment
- General Daily Usage
Since I’m starting from scratch anyway (reminder to self, do not trust Ubuntu One, those are the assholes who fucked up self’s computer in the first place, back up to USB, then give to Cthulhu for safekeeping) and it’s a stat holiday tomorrow in Canuckistan (surprise, American bosses!) I might as well work my way through this list and report back. Although if it works, how will you ever know it’s me? EH? I ask yez.
Be Anonymous this May Day!
Forgot about Bank Transfer Day? Missed the Million Hoodie March? Still emotionally support Occupy and the 99%? Not to worry! Here’s something you can do to support the 99% and it won’t cost you a damn cent or take one damn minute of your time. This is perhaps the most perfect protest for the Age of Slacktivism: a May Day protest in which you do not a goddam thing, and by so doing, bring the 1% to their knees.
(via Max Adams)
Think about it. Those are great odds, and no heavy lifting.
99 to 1
Queen Anonymous
I! AM! The… oh waitaminit. Where’s my goddam hoodie? That’s better. All together now…
HOODIE UP in solidarity with Trayvon Martin and all young people who have been targeted, hurt, or lost their lives as a result of racial profiling.
Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old African American high school student. He lived with his mother and older brother, and wanted to to study aviation. He was visiting his father in a gated community in Sanford when he was shot by the neighbourhood watch captain, George Zimmerman. Trayvon was wearing a hoodie, on foot and un-armed; he had been to the store during a break in the NBA game to get Skittles and iced tea. Prior to shooting him in the chest, Zimmerman had called the police to report Trayvon’s “suspicious” behavior (walking while black??) and insisted on pursuing him. Police have not arrested Zimmerman because he claims that he killed Trayvon in self-defense, under the protection of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law. Police also did not contact Trayvon’s family and registered him in the morgue as John Doe, in spite of having his cellphone in their possession when he was pronounced dead.
For full story – http://www.democracynow.org/2012/3/20/walking_while_black_florida_police_resist
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The hoodie is a symbol of how we are NOT subject to the same treatment, how some of us have to expect violence and negligence, not safety or protection, from institutions like the police because of systemic racism. In spite of how common and “trendy” the hoodie is, it retains associations with “danger” and “criminality” when worn by people of colour, especially those who are perceived to be poor/of lower economic class and therefore “not belonging” in particular areas.
Cultural racism means that mainstream society feels entitled both to treat people of color on the basis of racial stereotypes (which erases one’s individual character) AND to have ready access to people of color’s personal/private identities at all times (which makes one’s individual body hyper-visible).
Racial profiling in the form of policing, surveillance and incarceration affects many youth of color in the Lower Mainland from Arab, Muslim, South and/or Southeast Asian communities, and especially Indigenous and Black communities, who are already over-represented, with growing numbers, in Canada’s prison system.
Visit http://icouldbetrayvon.com/
STAND UP AND REMEMBER.
MAKE YOUR STORIES HEARD.
HOODIE UP.———————————————————————-
Links to check out:Video of parents of Trayvon Martin speaking http://is.gd/unCRaG
Video w/Brian Jones http://is.gd/S6ZKHQ
http://pandagon.net/index.php/site/comments/a-young-black-man-being-late
http://www.urbancusp.com/newspost/the-bullet-next-time-an-open-letter-to-my-unborn-black-son/
http://colorlines.com/archives/2012/03/koritha_mitchell_living_with_lynching.html
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/trayvon-martin-news-7552519?src=soc_fcbk
http://racismschool.tumblr.com/post/19758690223/the-million-hoodie-march
http://www.npr.org/2012/03/24/149245834/tragedy-gives-the-hoodie-a-whole-new-meaning&sc=fb&cc=fp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/mar/21/trayvon-martin-shooting-911-call
Dress! Code! In! Force!
Hoodie up!
raincoaster 