In response to the recent events in Chicago, a message from Occupy San Diego to the Worldwide Resistance that joined in the anti-NATO demonstrations, as well as to the various Occupations, students in Quebec, and worldwide resistance as it was condensed by OSD GA (05/23/2012).

Text: In response to the recent events in Chicago, a message from Occupy San Diego to the Worldwide Resistance that joined in the anti-NATO demonstrations, as well as to the various Occupations, and students in Quebec as it was condensed by OSD GA (05/23/12).

TEXT: From San Diego to Chicago: A Message of Solidarity
 
Since its inception on September 17, 2011, Occupy Wall Street and the many nationwide Occupations it spawned have continuously faced brutal repression at the hands of the state’s heavily-militarized police departments.
 
Despite this repression, these past months have seen The People from San Diego to Oakland, all the way to Chicago and New York, coming together to exercise our 1st Amendment rights to freedom of speech and to hold public assemblies. We have used these rights, guaranteed under the U.S. constitution, to collectively express feelings of mass injustice. The People have taken to the streets and raised their voices all the way to the steps of Congress in Washington itself, and, more recently, in Chicago during the G8 and NATO Summit. Yet the repression continues and has intensified.

The current administration’s failure to acknowledge and condemn these vicious violations of our civil rights comes as no surprise. It has embarked on a campaign to ignore us, hoping we would fade to oblivion; to discredit us by disseminating misinformation through the tools of the mainstream media; and by pushing legislation which directly attacks our civil liberties. This past New Years Eve, Barack Obama signed into law the NDAA, the National Defense Authorisation Act, granting the president the power to indefinitely imprison any citizen anywhere in the world, including inside the U.S., without charge or trial. He also signed into law HR 347, the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act (aka the Anti-Protest Act) which restricts the practice of free speech by criminalizing public protest near any Federal building and/or Federal Agent. With these laws, the governement aims to further oppress, silence, and strike fear among its own citizens, continuously pushing the U.S. into a fascist state.

The General Assembly of Occupy San Diego stands in solidarity with our sisters and brothers who showed resilience and courage in Chicago during the anti-NATO demonstrations, an organization that disguises its imperialistic agenda as humanitarian help. We denounce the heavy militarized tactics employed by the Chicago Police Department to repress people’s right to assemble. We denounce the sensationalist mainstream corporate-media as a tool which the 1% employs to shamefully manipulate their biased coverage of events. We declare the NDAA and HR 347 as direct violations of our constitutional, civil, and human rights.

To the various Occupations, the Students in Quebec, the Protesters of Frankfurt, and all the People Worldwide Resisting Injustices: Occupy San Diego stands with you.

To the Chicago Police Department, the mainstream media, and the Obama administration: The whole world is watching!
 
05/23/2012

http://www.sandiegooccupy.org/node/295
http://www.facebook.com/osdedu
http://www.facebook.com/OccupySanDiego

The Hacker Manifesto

by
+++The Mentor+++
Written January 8, 1986

Another one got caught today, it’s all over the papers. “Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal”, “Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering”…

Damn kids. They’re all alike.

But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950’s technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?

I am a hacker, enter my world…

Mine is a world that begins with school… I’m smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me…

Damn underachiever. They’re all alike.

I’m in junior high or high school. I’ve listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. “No, Ms. Smith, I didn’t show my work. I did it in my head…”

Damn kid. Probably copied it. They’re all alike.

I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it’s because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn’t like me… Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I’m a smart ass.. Or doesn’t like teaching and shouldn’t be here…

Damn kid. All he does is play games. They’re all alike.

And then it happened… a door opened to a world… rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict’s veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought… a board is found. “This is it… this is where I belong…” I know everyone here… even if I’ve never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again… I know you all…

Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They’re all alike…

You bet your ass we’re all alike… we’ve been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak… the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We’ve been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert.

This is our world now… the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn’t run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals.

Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.

I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can’t stop us all… after all, we’re all alike.