Part of the reason this is added to groups that focus on rights, is that to me the issue of open honest government, that has made  WikiLeaks and its protector Anonymous, the enemy of Governments, who like Penn State, prefer their dirty secrets to stay hidden.

Of course my vote went to Anonymous who embody a culture that will no longer accept censorship for the few to enable exploitation and suffering for the 99%!

Anonymous has been called many things, mostly in relation to computer hacking — hackers, hacktivists, an international hacking collective — but the so-called group is really more of a way of life than something that's easily definable. Anonymous has changed the way the world thinks about hacking by turning it into a form of social activism. A fixture with the Occupy Wall Street protests, Anonymous has also been linked to nefarious hacks, like the one that took down Sony's PlayStation Network this year. Yet it has reportedly been engaged in vigilante justice as well, including the takedown of a massive child-pornography ring. Despite having no central leadership, Anonymous' reputation has grown thanks to the nature of its anyone-can-join mentality. Did Anonymous members really threaten a Mexican drug cartel? Did they really take down the PlayStation Network? That's the power and peril of an organization as inherently disorganized as Anonymous....

If you're not familiar with CREW you might appreciate the Blog more after glancing at the Scandals & Scoundrels or This Year's Winners for Most Corrupt in Congress

Of course it's easy to guess I love them and everyone else who enjoys seeing the dirty laundry of Corporate Government Profiteers aired in public, you will love them too!!

Common Ground ~ October 27

By Jeremy Miller

Congress, Corporate, Lobbying, Wall Street

 

"I hope we shall take warning from the example and crush in it's [sic] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws our country."

 

- Thomas Jefferson, 1816

Roughly three years ago – amidst the financial catastrophe that cost taxpayers trillions of dollars to bailout, the growing foreclosure crisis and the continued hemorrhaging of jobs – a growing chorus of ordinary Americans began doing something they had never done before: speak up.  Although quickly exploited by special interests for political gain and dubbed the Tea Party, endemic to the movement were legitimate and palpable grievances against not only crony capitalism, but the bought and paid for politicians who let it all happen on their watch.

Today, a new movement is sweeping the country voicing similar frustrations.  Among other things, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) complains of the same audacious corporations and banks - still seemingly bottomless pits of greed - and their abettors in Congress, despite a nation reeling from the financial collapse.  Setting aside political ideology and partisan motives, there seems to be a lot on which both sides can agree.  Most significantly: the loudest voices in the room are not ordinary Americans, but big, rich corporate actors.

To wit:

Despite sitting on roughly $2 trillion dollars in corporate coffers, business lobbyists and the Chamber of Commerce (“Chamber”) are pushing hard to enact another “tax repatriation holiday.” History and facts show clearly that a tax holiday allowing corporations to pay sharply reduced taxes on profits they bring back to the United States would only further our long term deficit, fill corporate treasuries, and do little to create jobs.  Sadly, certain members of Congress aren’t interested in these facts.

Here are links to some songs, with lyrics for the hearing impaired, dedicated to the Occupy movement and fellow Wisconsinite Scott Olsen, the 24-year-old Iraq War vet police damn near killed at Occupy Oakland.  Please add your own music links and any thoughts you’d li …

How fabulous is this?  Go us!!

One month after the first protesters showed up on Wall Street, similar movements have popped up in cities throughout the world — and many more are being planned or discussed. As “Occupy Wall Street” evolves into “Occupy Everywhere,” several new services are mapping the social media chatter surrounding them.

Similar to the dashboards news outlets like Al Jazeera and independent projects like IAmJan25 and HyperCities created to track social media surrounding the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street maps now show where relevant geotaged tweets, YouTube videos and Flickr images are being posted, in real time.