Anonymous downs Oakland police site

Anonymous speaks to Scott Olsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hx_FwSx0Fo

http://activistnews.blogspot.com/2011/10/anonymous-downs-oakland-police-site.html
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Anonymous downs Oakland police site after violence

SC Magazine
Oct. 27, 2011
By Dan Kaplan

The hacktivist group Anonymous is making good on its promise of digital retaliation against the Oakland Police Department for the force it used against protesters this week.

A distributed denial-of-service attack against the department's website -- www.oaklandpolice.com -- is underway, and the website currently is unreachable.

In addition, members of the collective have begun releasing information about Oakland police officers, and the call is out for additional help.

"The time has come to retaliate against Oakland police via all non-violent means, beginning with 'doxing' of individual officers and particularly higher-ups involved in the department's conduct of late," read an Anonymous statement, posted to Pastebin.

An Oakland police spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment.



Doxing references the public release of information about individuals.



Anonymous' operation, dubbed "OpUprise," comes in response to the actions Tuesday night of Oakland police trying to squash a largely peaceful demonstration organized to protest the clearing of an encampment where Occupy Oakland members had been staying.

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3866
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On New Year's Eve 2010, whilst much of the world was celebrating, over 1,000 people demonstrated in the Palestinian village of Bil'in against Israel's encroachment on the village's land. Israeli tear gas and rubber bullets rained down on the protesters and Jawaher Abu Rahma, who was watching the demonstration from the sidelines, choked to death as the allegedly non-lethal gas enveloped the village.

A report from Bil'in residents said that Israeli soldiers fired tear gas “from the moment protesters entered their sight.” [1] “It is obvious that, for the army, the mere presence of unarmed demonstrators is reason enough to use chemical weapons against them,” it added.

Bil'in, a symbol of popular resistance

Since 2005, the village