a: repudiate the national debt. enact a balanced budget amendment.

b: end the statutory “limited liability” privilege for all corporate forms. retroactively impose full liability on all corporate tortfeasors (BP, Exxon, Union Carbide, WR Grace, and others).

c: forgive all student loan debt.

d: end “qualified immunity” and other immunities for public officials at every level.

e: prosecute the war criminals and financial criminals of the past decade (at least), plus Kissinger.

f: withdraw from IMF, World Bank, OECD and similar planet-dominating financial cabals.

g: end the drug war. abolish the DEA. release all inmates imprisoned for drug-only offenses.

h: eliminate all law restricting the movement and settlement of homeless people on public lands and abandoned property. strengthen the rights of homesteaders and squatters.

i: cut the defense budget by 2/3 for 2012. close all foreign bases, recall all troops. unilaterally dismantle the nuclear weapons stockpile. merge the Navy into the Coast Guard. scrap every weapons system and program with a range greater than the continental US. defund all weapons development.

j: abolish TSA, DHS, NSA, NRO, FinCen, and replace them with nothing.

k: abolish the Federal Reserve.

l: repeal USA-PATRIOT, the Military Commissions Act and all similar “post-9/11 world” reactionary nonsense.

m: amend the Constitution to require a 75% majority of -all- members to pass new legislation, but only a 50% majority of members present to repeal legislation. ban riders and earmarks.

n: abolish federal block grants to states.

o: ban government pensions for elected officials. limit all other government pensions to $100k/yr.

p: eliminate the income cap on social security contributions.

q: implement means testing for social security retirement payments.

r: simplify the Internal Revenue Code to 50 pages or less. tax dividends and capital gains the same as income.

s: reduce patent and copyright terms to 10 years.

t: repeal all legislation restricting workers from organizing as they see fit.

u: eliminate all foreign aid. cut the State Department budget by 80%. ban diplomats from acting as corporate salesmen.

v: abolish all business subsidies and regulations which benefit big companies to the detriment of small businesses and sole traders, while doing nothing to protect the public.

w: ban all military equipment sales to foreign entities (rifles okay, tanks and gunships not).

x: abolish all law favoring big banks to the detriment of credit unions, local lending mutuals, etc.

y: statehood for DC. statehood or independence for Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and all other disenfranchised US possessions.

z: roll back official secrecy. limit classification periods to 15 years. declassify everything up to 1996 immediately. strengthen FOIA and whistleblower protections. free Bradley Manning.

Event website: http://bradleymanning.furchtlos.com/cms/vienna/

Credit: craigmdennis @ flickr

I, Mike Gogulski, hereby pledge that if Julian Assange should call upon me in need of a place to stay, I will provide it to him with no questions asked, indefinitely, and with the highest degree of security and confidentiality I can provide. I’m easy to get a hold of.

Now it’s your turn. Simply replace my name with yours and publish. Link here if you wish, but publish.

The entire US government is lining up against this courageous young Army Private, including calls for his death, but we’re building a “Stand with Brad” campaign to give voice to the millions who understand what’s really going on here.

“We stand for truth, for government transparency, and for an end to our tax-dollars funding endless occupation abroad… We stand with accused whistle-blower US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning”, begins our statement at http://standwithbrad.org.

1. Please sign the statement yourself.

2. I’m hoping you can encourage a few friends to also add their name.

3. When talking to folks about this, let them know there is a grassroots support network that has taken responsibility for Bradley’s legal defense expenses… and Bradley could really use their support. http://couragetoresist.org/bradley

For every statement signer, an individual copy is printed and mailed to Army officials on their behalf, regardless of their ability to make a donation.

Thank you.

Peace,
Mike

Operation: Payb

You have attracted plenty of attention with your DDOS attacks against the MPAA, IFPI, ACS:Law, Davenport Lyons, the US Copyright Office, and so on. Downing those sites is an open challenge to the Copyright Nazis, a glove slapped in the face of those who would restrict our beloved internets.

However,attacking websites doesn’t accomplish much in and of itself. Sure, in the course of the APACOR and ACS:Law attacks you managed to snatch and publicize some juicy internal data. In the ACS:Law case, that will hopefully lead to the firm’s well-deserved demise. Good on you! But the practice of attacking and downing or defacing websites yields only a cosmetic win. For the real lulz, you’ve gotta go after infrastructure, the machines and networks that make what these despicable organizations do possible.

So, the next time you’re priming your Low Orbit Ion Cannons, consider alternate targets: routers, DNS servers, email gateways, firewalls, proxy servers — basically, anything exposed to the public internets which directly affects the organization’s functioning. With a wee bit of probing and a wee bit of planning, you’ll be much more effective.

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Sabotage by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

During the Swedish general strike these workers who belonged to the unions and were operating the papers rebelled against printing lies against their fellow strikers. They sent an ultimatum to the newspaper managers: “Either you print the truth or you’ll print no papers at all.” The newspaper owners decided they would rather print no paper at all than tell the truth. Most of them would probably so decide in this country, too. The men went on strike and the paper came out a little bit of a sheet, two by four, until eventually they realized that the printers had them by the throat, that they could not print any papers without the printers. They sent for them to come back and told them, “So much of the paper will belong to the strikers and they can print what they please in it.”

– Sabotage: The Conscious Withdrawal of the Workers’ Industrial Efficiency by Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 1916

Assignment for readers: In the comments, compare and contrast the printers’ action in the context of 1916 with possibilities for workers achieving similar results in the context of mass media communications moving more and more to the internet in 2010.

Here’s Jim Barnett, writing for the Nieman Journalism Lab at establishment pillar Harvard University:

“If WikiLeaks really wants to promote transparency, it should start with its own operations.”

John “WikiLeaks > Cryptome = sour grapes” Young, quoted in a rather insane article suggesting, among other things, that WikiLeaks is a CIA/Mossad front organization, says:

“The principal deficiency of Wikileaks is its lack of transparency about its operators and funds, characteristics of spies and secret societies up to no good and whose main purpose is to hide from public accountability and conceal corruption and criminality.”

Into the midst of an otherwise decent-looking piece of journalism, Jeanne Whalen and David Crawford, writing for establishment mouthpiece The Wall Street Journal, inject:

“WikiLeaks’s lack of financial transparency stands in contrast to the total transparency it seeks from governments and corporations.”

It’s hard to separate out the stupid from the evil here, and I’m not going to try. But let’s break it down. What’s being said here is that since it represents itself as a champion of transparency among governments and giant corporations, WikiLeaks ought to eat its own dog food and be transparent itself.

Has a nice sort of happy-symmetry ring to it, doesn’t it? But it’s wrong.

What WikiLeaks (and sites like it, including, to his credit, John Young’s cryptome.org) brings to the world is a mechanism for subjecting the most powerful, wealthiest and least accountable institutions on the planet to the merciless light of public scrutiny so that they cannot continue enjoying the benefit of secrecy in exploiting people and planet.

It should be blindingly obvious to these and other like-minded commentators that the “transparency” logic simply does not apply to such an organization. The public has no need whatever to know the internal workings of a volunteer, donation-funded organization that heroically stands up to the world’s greatest powers. Additionally, the more information that’s public about such a group’s inner workings, the more opportunity for those powers to subvert, corrupt, disrupt, discredit and destroy it.

Maybe that’s just not obvious to them, in which case I call them stupid. But maybe it is obvious to them. If so, that strongly suggests to me that they’re in the service of evil, if not evil themselves.

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Justice for Bradley Manning petition

In a few weeks, depending on what the response trend is, this will be sent to the DoD and major media outlets covering the story, plus a paper copy to Brad Manning himself.

Your comments are welcome here, but don’t forget to sign over there! Also, please spread this to your friends, colleagues, bloggers you know, etc.

Petition text:

To: US Department of Defense; US Department of Justice

We, the Undersigned, call for justice for US Army PFC Bradley Manning, incarcerated without charge (as of 18 June 2010) at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.

Media accounts state that Mr. Manning was arrested in late May for leaking the video of US Apache helicopter pilots killing innocent people and seriously wounding two children in Baghdad, including those who arrived to help the wounded, as well as potentially other material. The video was released by WikiLeaks under the name “Collateral Murder”.

If these allegations are untrue, we call upon the US Department of Defense to release Mr. Manning immediately.

If these allegations ARE true, we ALSO call upon the US Department of Defense to release Mr. Manning immediately.

Simultaneously, we express our support for Mr. Manning in any case, and our admiration for his courage if he is, in fact, the person who disclosed the video. Like in the cases of Daniel Ellsberg, W. Mark Felt, Frank Serpico and countless other whistleblowers before, government demands for secrecy must yield to public knowledge and justice when government crime and corruption are being kept hidden.

Justice for Bradley Manning!