A grip of us from Hackbloc will be in the San Francisco Bay Area enjoying 8 days of anarchy, the BASTARD conference, and the sf anarchist bookfair. We are helping organize a workshop Friday March 12th from 6pm - 9pm called Digital Security and Tactics For (and By) Anti Authoritarians at Noisebridge, the local hacker space. Hope to see you there, it'll be a blast!
* update * article submissions for #9 have closed. All articles recieved now will be slated for #10. Join us in #hackbloc on silc.anarchistnews.org Monday 2/22 at 6PM - 10PM PST to work on the zine. We are trying to get it all done in time for the SF Anarchist Bookfair where we will be tabling this year.
The most recent issue of Hack This Zine has just been released. If you
want to grab a paper copy, you can do so at the upcoming Portland
Anarchist Bookfair, print one yourself, or order one from Oly Hackbloc.
Hack This Zine is a zine about hacking, electronic civil disobedience,
computer culture, and computer security. Overall, it's bad-ass and you
should read it.
Grab it at https://hackbloc.org/zine
Get off the internet, we'll see you in the streets
I stumbled across an interesting link today at http://zinelibrary.info. They provide a place for people to upload and share copies of zines. It seems like a pretty cool project, kind of an archive.org for zines. I plan to upload copies of hack this zine there soon. Check it out!
Evoltech talked about tapatio and other interesting hacktivist topics with Marc de Giere on KBOO, a Portland, OR community radio station, for a new radio program called 'The Digital Divide'.
Click Here to Listen: Tapatio Radio
Hack this zine will be done in the next week, if you would like to be a distributor, contact us.
Also its time to submit your articles and stories for the next issue! Please send them to staff [at] hackbloc [dot] org or send via our contact link.
For anyone that has had problems accessing Hack This Zine the last couple days my sincere apologies. A change which I intended to make it easier to browse the issues of hack this zine has actually made it harder to access the issues by sending up a permission denied error. Anyway the problem is fixed now and you may download issues at http://hackbloc.org/zine or you can browse them at http://hackbloc.org/etc/zine
Amy Goodman of democracy now interviewed the Ramsey County Sheriff today. The sheriff admitted that he had hired paid informants to infiltrate various RNC protest groups. According to the Sheriff:
"We followed our Welcoming Committee members to many cities around the country. We consulted with the terrorism task force in those cities. We received information, etc. But as they started arriving, we were able to identify those that were here.
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The ironic thing about this interview is that Amy Goodman herself was arrested at the RNC and pepper sprayed point blank in the face while handcuffed. This was certainly not the worst police brutality faced by protesters at the RNC. But it is safe to say that the ramsey county police had a pretty good PR fuck up by arresting her. You can read the rest of Amy Goodman's interview at democracynow.org.
This admission of consulting with the terrorism task forces is not especially shocking since 8 members of the RNC welcoming committee were charged with rioting in furtherance of terrorism. From the Twin Cities Indymedia:
"In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism. Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, Luce Guillen Givins, Erik Oseland, Nathanael Secor, Robert Czernik, Garrett Fitzgerald, and Max Spector, face up to 7 1/2 years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge which allows for a 50% increase in the maximum penalty."
There were an additionally more than 800 arrests at the RNC including more than 20 journalists. This is truly a frightening turn of events, it is the first practical use of HR-1955, the home grown terrorism bill, which we have written about before. We can probably expect to see a lot more of this sort of thing in the future. Where every act of protest or dissent is considered and treated like a terrorist act. Even the police response in Minneapolis, which was to use tear gas and concussion grenades against unarmed civilians at the RNC. If this line of thought continues soon the concussion grenades will be the least of our worries as the bullets fly over our heads and we are charged as enemy combatants. This is a very real threat under the provisions set aside by HR 1955.
There were numerous home raids before and during the RNC, at least 5 by some estimates, possibly more. During the raids everyone in the house was arrested and any equipment was confiscated. Even hackbloc members had their equipment confiscated (stolen) by the police. So far, very few of these items have been returned. The protesters were treated as criminals, not protesters exorcising their first amendment rights. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune quotes:
"Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said the St. Paul raid targeted the RNC Welcoming Committee, a group he described as "a criminal enterprise made up of 35 self-described anarchists...intent on committing criminal acts before and during the Republican National Convention."
One of the main things stolen during these police raids were pamphlets fliers and information, including copies of Hack This Zine! From Twincities.com:
"The seized material included titles such as "Anarchism, What it Really Stands For," "You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship," "Join the Resistance: Fall in Love," "Hack This Zine" and "An Anarchist Cookbook — Recipes for Disaster."
I hope they enjoy reading that down at the police station.
Past Issues
* Note the author credit in the PDFs are incorrent, sorry anonymous!
Past Issues
A note from HB staff: This issue is coming out really late. It has been a busy year for all of us, and some of the articles, news, and technology in this issue are way out of date. We decided to go forward and release it anyway becasue it was a half finished issue and we wanted to get it out even if it is really old.
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