Before the the idea of Anonymous #OccupyPhilippines and other hack escapades in electronic civil disobedience campaign against web servers belong to the goverment website of the Philippines and promote political, there was a project name Brigada Elektronika also a movement for hacktivism by disrupting online communication, defacements, and flood nets, the year was March 20, 2006.
Read their e-zine release
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# International Solidarity to Free the Sagada 11 #
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Two of the Sagada 11 Freed!
TWO among the eleven tortured and illegally arrested backpackers also known as
the SAGADA11, were already released from La Trinidad District Jail on May 30,
Asian Commission on Human Rights (AHRC) said, Thursday night.
Minors Frencess Ann Bernal (15) and Ray Lester Mendoza (16) were released from
La Trinidad District Jail after the court granted the earlier petition by their
legal counsel to turn them over to their parents. The two minors were amongst
the 11 torture victims detained in La Trinidad, Benguet. They were illegally
arrested in February 14, 2006 at Buguias Checkpoint by Police authorities who
claimed that they were in "hot pursuit" of suspected Armed Rebels.
In a separate newspaper report, Judge Agapito Laoagan Jr. ruled the
"warrantless" arrest by the police as illegal as it did not fall under the
principle of a "hot pursuit" operation. Under arrests made by virtue of "hot
pursuit" operations, warrants may not be required. Further, the arrests should
be made within hours from the commission of the crime.
Sagada11 Solidarity Action Held in Spain
by Jong Pairez (Indymedia Volunteer)
NEWSBREAK! (3/14/2006) Police authorities asked the Quezon City judge to issue a
search warrant for Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ)
headquarters, late this afternoon. The request for the warrant issue is
apparently in connection with inciting to sedition charges that similarly forced
a local newspaper to shutdown, last month.
BARCELONA, Spain-- Protest Banners were hanged outside the Philippine Embassy,
surprising passersby in Barcelona, yesterday (March 13), by a group of unnamed
Spanish activists, saying, "Basta de Torturas en las Filipinas (enough torture
in the Philippines)" and "11 de Sagada LIBERTAD! (free the Sagada 11!)"
Leaflets were also distributed, informing passersby about the rampant Human
Rights violation in the Philippines under the Arroyo Regime. The group of
Spanish activists who did a small solidarity action for the unconditional
release of Sagada 11, specifically condemned the illegal arrest and violent
torture suffered by the eleven young backpackers from the hands of Philippine
authorities.
TOKYO AND THE SAGADA 11
"As everyone gathers for food prepared by a vegan guerrilla kitchen collective
known as Kaizouku Cafe, Poets were already breathing metaphors of burning
Molotov cocktails in their hands, making words as bullets for a calibre pistol
that can strike an enemy in one blow."
It was Saturday night in Tokyo, as usual the post-industrial cosmopolitan city
ambience is the same, although the season has changed from Winter to Spring (it
is much less colder). Thus, everywhere is noises of ambulance sirens in the
streets, stressed salary men strolling like living deads, and common music of
monotonic rhythm from a subway train constitutes the everyday life of an
ordinary dweller.
I just came out from my work somewhere in the posh district of Hiro-o to join
the closing party of our DIY multi-media artshowÑSeppuku2, which opened last
month in Irregular Rhythm Asylum (IRA). It took me thirty minutes before I was
able to get into the venue that is located in Shinjuku. Before I was able to
enter the door of IRA, several of individuals, mostly from the new "Zengakuren"
generation were already there, sharing food and beer. I thought the night will
be the same, but it was not.
SOLIDARITY NIGHT FOR SAGADA 11
The closing party was a solidarity night. As everyone gathers for food prepared
by a vegan guerrilla kitchen collective known as Kaizouku Cafe, Poets were
already breathing metaphors of burning Molotov cocktails in their hands, making
words as bullets for a calibre pistol that can strike an enemy in one blow.
There was anger, it was anger against all kinds of Authority that strangles the
human soul, which has killed and detained a dozen including the eleven innocent
and young hitchhiker punks in the Philippines known as the Sagada 11.
After a while of continuous spontaneity, Sha-do-U of IRA beamed the online
petition campaign to free the Sagada 11 on the wall from his computer. He also
made a brief speech about the issue.
The expression of solidarity came in different ways, but some has pushed the
button to include their names on the online petition. Some of them were band
members of various punk bands in Tokyo, including Masau of The Urchins.
Kaori of the punk rock bandÑThe Happening, which is considered one of the
legends in Tokyo punk scene offered a song entitled "Fuck the Bastards" in
acoustic while I was about to drink my third beer. She fluently expressed well
the same emotion that everybody feels during a confrontation against authority.
Our night of solidarity continued and every hour was a surprise, while the
common life outside is totally predictable. I thought the night is the same, but
it was not until the night has produced a moment of action, of expression and
solidarity of love.
** A Freed Sagada 11 Prisoner Speaks Out **
It's an amazing experience to be a part of a hacktivist action and know that you
can be anywhere on the planet and like minds exist. The impact that the web sit
in had and the impetuous for it was something to behold. It all started from a
plea from a Filipino to an American (who both happened to be in Japan) to get
the word out that their friends were jailed and tortured just because their
government thinks punkers are different. These punkers were just helping people
get food for god sake (Food Not Bombs)! The American had contacts and before
long, the Office of the President and the Philippine National Police websites
were shut down because hacktivist got involved and helped to get the word out.
From there, international press got wind of the situation and the web sit in
garnered international attention and support. The American returned to the
states to find out that the action reached the American press. 3 months later, 2
of the prisoners were released and live to tell the situation. I just want
people to realize that actions matter. Don't sit around thinking you can't make
a difference, when no matter where you are you can. Don't EVER let them tell you
otherwise. - Sally
This is an interview from one of the SAGADA11, her name is Ann, living at
Marikina City Philippines. We interviewed her with a condition that we won't ask
her about what happen or to re-summarized the incident of torture.
Q: What were you feeling when most of your visitors unfamiliar faces?
A: I'm very much happy, I'd seen the true camaraderie really stands for,
thinking that we are just genre-mates or let say punk-mates.
Q: Have anyone told you the actions done by the Internet Justice League?
A: Yes,
Q: What do you know about them?
A: They are the ones that help to spread the issue internationally and they were
the ones that participated in the virtual sit-in done to pressure the Philippine
government by means of messing with their websites.
Q: Now that you are now out in jail, tell something about it.
A: At first; we're very much happy, but just after a few days had pass, a police
that introduced themselves as CHED (Commission on Higher Education)
representatives and was looking for me, fortunately I was out. My mother was
wise enough to trace it with the help of the CHED officials and said that they
didn't send anyone the look for Ann. In the case of PETRA, someone also came to
his school and showed some photos; Ray Lester (Petra) with someone in High
status of the NPA (New Peoples Army), creating a hearsays, at school that Petra
is a real NPA. We are required to report to the DSWD (Department of Social
Welfare and Development). We are also told that Camp Crame has an eye watching
us, under surveillance
Q: Aside from being happy, what other emotion arise from being released?
A: I'm somewhat ashame, because people tells me that "so you are already out in
jail"
Q: Why are you ashame when people tells you that?
A: Because my family treat me differently. When they tells me that, I'm thinking
that they believed that I'm what I'm accused of. I'm also ashame also because
the society is not accustomed to a girl, especially at my age, already got a
piece of taste in jail.
Q: Treat differently, what do you mean, bad or good treat differently?
A: both bad and good; the society now treats me like I'm the only one that
needed the help. How about those other person that need more of their reaching
arms. I don't what them to treat me baby, different from the other, I just want
them to treat as what they treated me before.
Q: Are you studying?
A: Yes, I'm grateful that we've reached the school's enrollment period.
Q: Now that you are studying. What are your plan?
A: Spend it schooling, time is taking a toll at me.
Q: How about going to gigs and mobilization/movements?
A: I think going to gigs would be fine, but mobilization, maybe I'll just say
pass for now.
Q: What is you greatest fear?
A: I don't want that to happened to me or to anyone else anymore.
Q: You said that you would be lay lowing on the mobilization. How do you plan to
contribute for you fear not to happen.
A: I've seen many points from that experience. I've seen what is wrong, and
learned a lot from this experience. All I have to do, is to share this
experience so that is wouldn't happen to anyone anymore.
Q: This would be my final question. What do you still need?
A: For me? Maybe your question should be not what i need, but what do the
remaining SAGADA 11 needs?
Q: What do you think they need?
A: Food is a major need they have to think everyday. Food is given not to
satisfy their hunger but just for the stomach to be filled with something. I
think that they need money to accommodate this needs.
To send help contact us in liberation_asusual@yahoo.com or pjames_e@yahoo.com.au
MANILA: BrigadaElektronica electronic disturbance group strikes again
"Technology has boasted that it enables people in getting closer to each other,
so we are going to show that if we can't get closer to Malakanyang and protest,
we will closely express ourselves inside Malakanyang palace itself by just one
click," says one of the group's technician who want to keep anonymity.
MANILA-- The current ban of public assemblies and free speech in the streets
has given birth to online protest action namely- "electronic sit-in."
BrigadaElektronica electronic disturbance group first introduced electronic
sit-in last year as an online version of support to the striking workers of
Gelmart in Metro Manila who then occupied the factory, held a picket line and
obstructed the capitalist boss's activity in laying-off the workers. The group
held a similar action by occupying (sit-in) the official Gelmart website; of
course, the action successfully declared "no business as usual, workers on
strike!" (the Gelmart website literally stopped as thousands of online
participants joined the sit-in)
This time, the electronic disturbance group is once again announcing their
second electronic sit-in campaign, targeting the Malakanyang website, PNP and
Office of the President. The action officially starts on March 23, 2006, it will
last until the first of April.
"Technology has boasted that it enables people in getting closer to each other,
so we are going to show that if we can't get closer to Malakanyang and protest,
we will closely express ourselves inside Malakanyang palace itself by just one
click," says one of the group's technician who want to keep anonymity.
The group also said that this electronic sit-in demands the unconditional
release of eleven young backpackers including a fifteen-year-old girl who were
illegally arrested, tortured and wrongfully accused as NPA's by Philippine
authorities, while the innocent-care-free kids were only just hitchhiking on
their way to the beautiful Sagada Mountains. "If the responsible authorities
will not take heed for the call of these kids' parents who were very much
dishearten for taking away their sons and daughters the freedom to travel;
government websites will virtually be deleted. " says one of the technicians.
"The Benguet Police and Military must also give apologies to the victims of
their inhuman activities," demands the group.
Computer-savvy protesters start
'virtual sit-in' campaign
COMPUTER-SAVVY Philippine protesters took civil disobedience to cyberspace
Thursday, launching a "virtual sit-in" campaign that urged online activists to
overwhelm the police Web site with numerous hits.
Protesting alleged human rights abuses, protesters calling themselves
"Electronic Brigade" opened a Web site that directs visitors to the main
national police site.
"You are about to take part in an online direct action protest. Please confirm
that you are willingly taking part in this action by clicking OK or exit without
taking part by clicking cancel," the message said.
The activists, who are not identified, said their brand of "hacktivism" is legal
because it technically involves just visiting a Web site.
Police did not comment immediately, and it wasn't clear how many hits their Web
site recorded.
The activists' Web site opens with a cartoon of the "Electronic Brigade" members
dressed as super heroes, wearing masks and caps. A blurb accuses police of
rampant human rights violations, including allegedly torturing 11 teenagers it
said were wrongfully accused of being communist guerrillas.
The 11 young people were arrested last month while on their way to the northern
tourist town of Sagada. Their lawyer, Pablito Sanidad, on Thursday asked a court
in northern Benguet province to free them, saying they were arrested without
warrants or probable cause.
Provincial police chief Senior Superintendent Villamor Bumanlag earlier said the
11 were identified by government militiamen as communist guerrillas and denied
they were tortured.
Bringing Street Protest to Cyberspace
by Manila Indymedia
NEWSBREAK! (28/3/2006) HACKTIVISTS expressing solidarity with the 11 political
prisoners known as the Sagada 11 have hacked and defaced the website belonging
to the National Defense College of the Philippines. Their website now reads, "We
don't need the government, we don't need the military, we need JUSTICE AND
LIBERTY for the SAGADA 11!", along with several links encouraging people to show
their support.[ Read More ]
UPDATES! (26/3/2006) VIRTUAL SIT-IN ends today, says BrigadaElektronica in a
message forwarded through emails, the group thanked the participants who
corageously joined the direct action that shuts the PNP website down (wednesday
March 23). About 1,088 users participated in the action bringing the message
FREE SAGADA 11. The group vowed to continue the campaign, saying, "stay tuned
for our next target."
UPDATES! (24/3/2006) GEOCITIES.YAHOO.COM responded to the ongoing virtual sit-in
by blatantly deleting the html pages that had been set-up by BrigadaElektronica
and JLI. But the group says "no need to worry," after suggesting cyber
protestors to use the mirror sites.
UPDATES! (23/3/2006) HACKTIVISTS from USA expressed solidarity with Filipino
online activists by hijacking the PNP.GOV.PH "Report a Crime" form with an
automated response that let people join the virtual sit-in. [ Read More ]
A GROUP of online activists offered an alternative space to protest after the
Philippine Government violently prohibited the streets and freedom parks to
exercise public assembly and practice freedom of speech. The online activists
calling themselves BrigadaElektronica electronic disturbance group organized an
"electronic sit-in"- bringing street protest actions on cyberspace.
Electronic sit-in is a form of electronic civil disobedience deriving its name
from the sit-ins popular during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, a
virtual sit-in attempts to re-create that same action digitally using a DDoS.
During an electronic sit-in, hundreds of activists attempt to access a target
website simultaneously and repetitively. If done right, this will cause the
target website to run slowly or even collapse entirely, preventing anyone from
accessing it. [source: wikipedia]
The action officially starts on March 23, 2006 (10:00am Manila time), it will
last until the first of April. They are inviting everyone to join and occupy the
Philippine National Police website for being a rampant human rights violator.
[ Read More ][ UPDATES FROM HACKSITES: Post.Thing.Net | SDHacklab |
Hacktivist.com | Hackthissite ]
Interview with Brigada Elektronika
A: When did it all started? Let's decipher the myth, give basic ideas or
principles of Brigada Elektronika on the slate for the stream of conscious
humanity (left in anyone) to digest.
ErroR: It started as a direct action project to support the striking workers of
Gelmart Inc., last year. The mission was to launch a parallel action online. So
basically, it was the specific mission which binded the group to fulfill the
project. Obviously, the project is very temporary and momentary. Three
individuals were involved in this project, one of them was inspired by the
Electronic Disturbance Theatre, hence, the name BrigadaElektronika was born.
A: Is the goal long term or short lived?
ErroR: We only want to create a snapshot or a spot from memory that will last
until time succumbs to death. Therefore, the goal is to let others create their
own moment i.e. direct action(wether it is hacking, sit-in,etc.) Because, to
attain freedom/liberation is neither Long or Short.
A: Most of the activist circles are rather new to this form of direct action.
Can this be a new wave of method & vantage point for people, when Free Speech is
outlawed when it crosses the line?
ErroR: Yes. Because, as an activist, IMAGINATION is our duty. It is our only arm
to fight all forms of authority that threatens our capacity to think and
express.
A: What are the dynamics of the group. Do you support various struggles that is
not directly connected with the Brigada Elektronika in organizational basis..
ErroR: The group is so loose, and we dont even consider BrigadaElektronika a
group, but rather a name of a project. So in terms of connecting to others in
organizational basis, we prefer our individual capacity to decide and commit in
joining other group's action and projects.
A: Ive been informed that online/or virtual sit ins are legal in some cases. Can
you elaborate this to justify attacking several targets including the PNP
servers.
ErroR: There is no law that prohibits anyone to visit a website. It is simple as
that.
A: Do you consider yourself a hacker, anarchist if anything.. In times of war,
commodity & marketed foods with plastic labels. How do you label yourself?
ErroR: I consider myself as a dreamer, struggling to exist in this World who
proclaimed that dreaming is dead.
A: Few criticisms coming from the elements of poseudo luddites & immature
elements in the counterculture scene view virtual direct actions are mere
assimilation to the machinery of the State. What is your opinion? Do you have
any counter arguments about this..
ErroR: A virus cannot be assimilated by any kind of systems, imagine you are a
virus. This tiny little virus once it penetrates a system, it can shutdown even
the most formidable structure.
A: Lines have been drawn & there is no turning back. Comments, statement you'd
like to address.. before we wrap this shit up.
ErroR: Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming's dead,
that no one does it anymore. It's not dead, it's just been forgotten. Removed
from our language. No one teaches it so no one knows it exists. The dreamer is
banished to obscurity. Well I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are
too. By dreaming every day.Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds.
Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced. Ever. So whatever
you do, don't be bored. This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have
possibly hoped to be alive.
And things are just starting.
Read their e-zine release
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# International Solidarity to Free the Sagada 11 #
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Two of the Sagada 11 Freed!
TWO among the eleven tortured and illegally arrested backpackers also known as
the SAGADA11, were already released from La Trinidad District Jail on May 30,
Asian Commission on Human Rights (AHRC) said, Thursday night.
Minors Frencess Ann Bernal (15) and Ray Lester Mendoza (16) were released from
La Trinidad District Jail after the court granted the earlier petition by their
legal counsel to turn them over to their parents. The two minors were amongst
the 11 torture victims detained in La Trinidad, Benguet. They were illegally
arrested in February 14, 2006 at Buguias Checkpoint by Police authorities who
claimed that they were in "hot pursuit" of suspected Armed Rebels.
In a separate newspaper report, Judge Agapito Laoagan Jr. ruled the
"warrantless" arrest by the police as illegal as it did not fall under the
principle of a "hot pursuit" operation. Under arrests made by virtue of "hot
pursuit" operations, warrants may not be required. Further, the arrests should
be made within hours from the commission of the crime.
Sagada11 Solidarity Action Held in Spain
by Jong Pairez (Indymedia Volunteer)
NEWSBREAK! (3/14/2006) Police authorities asked the Quezon City judge to issue a
search warrant for Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ)
headquarters, late this afternoon. The request for the warrant issue is
apparently in connection with inciting to sedition charges that similarly forced
a local newspaper to shutdown, last month.
BARCELONA, Spain-- Protest Banners were hanged outside the Philippine Embassy,
surprising passersby in Barcelona, yesterday (March 13), by a group of unnamed
Spanish activists, saying, "Basta de Torturas en las Filipinas (enough torture
in the Philippines)" and "11 de Sagada LIBERTAD! (free the Sagada 11!)"
Leaflets were also distributed, informing passersby about the rampant Human
Rights violation in the Philippines under the Arroyo Regime. The group of
Spanish activists who did a small solidarity action for the unconditional
release of Sagada 11, specifically condemned the illegal arrest and violent
torture suffered by the eleven young backpackers from the hands of Philippine
authorities.
TOKYO AND THE SAGADA 11
"As everyone gathers for food prepared by a vegan guerrilla kitchen collective
known as Kaizouku Cafe, Poets were already breathing metaphors of burning
Molotov cocktails in their hands, making words as bullets for a calibre pistol
that can strike an enemy in one blow."
It was Saturday night in Tokyo, as usual the post-industrial cosmopolitan city
ambience is the same, although the season has changed from Winter to Spring (it
is much less colder). Thus, everywhere is noises of ambulance sirens in the
streets, stressed salary men strolling like living deads, and common music of
monotonic rhythm from a subway train constitutes the everyday life of an
ordinary dweller.
I just came out from my work somewhere in the posh district of Hiro-o to join
the closing party of our DIY multi-media artshowÑSeppuku2, which opened last
month in Irregular Rhythm Asylum (IRA). It took me thirty minutes before I was
able to get into the venue that is located in Shinjuku. Before I was able to
enter the door of IRA, several of individuals, mostly from the new "Zengakuren"
generation were already there, sharing food and beer. I thought the night will
be the same, but it was not.
SOLIDARITY NIGHT FOR SAGADA 11
The closing party was a solidarity night. As everyone gathers for food prepared
by a vegan guerrilla kitchen collective known as Kaizouku Cafe, Poets were
already breathing metaphors of burning Molotov cocktails in their hands, making
words as bullets for a calibre pistol that can strike an enemy in one blow.
There was anger, it was anger against all kinds of Authority that strangles the
human soul, which has killed and detained a dozen including the eleven innocent
and young hitchhiker punks in the Philippines known as the Sagada 11.
After a while of continuous spontaneity, Sha-do-U of IRA beamed the online
petition campaign to free the Sagada 11 on the wall from his computer. He also
made a brief speech about the issue.
The expression of solidarity came in different ways, but some has pushed the
button to include their names on the online petition. Some of them were band
members of various punk bands in Tokyo, including Masau of The Urchins.
Kaori of the punk rock bandÑThe Happening, which is considered one of the
legends in Tokyo punk scene offered a song entitled "Fuck the Bastards" in
acoustic while I was about to drink my third beer. She fluently expressed well
the same emotion that everybody feels during a confrontation against authority.
Our night of solidarity continued and every hour was a surprise, while the
common life outside is totally predictable. I thought the night is the same, but
it was not until the night has produced a moment of action, of expression and
solidarity of love.
** A Freed Sagada 11 Prisoner Speaks Out **
It's an amazing experience to be a part of a hacktivist action and know that you
can be anywhere on the planet and like minds exist. The impact that the web sit
in had and the impetuous for it was something to behold. It all started from a
plea from a Filipino to an American (who both happened to be in Japan) to get
the word out that their friends were jailed and tortured just because their
government thinks punkers are different. These punkers were just helping people
get food for god sake (Food Not Bombs)! The American had contacts and before
long, the Office of the President and the Philippine National Police websites
were shut down because hacktivist got involved and helped to get the word out.
From there, international press got wind of the situation and the web sit in
garnered international attention and support. The American returned to the
states to find out that the action reached the American press. 3 months later, 2
of the prisoners were released and live to tell the situation. I just want
people to realize that actions matter. Don't sit around thinking you can't make
a difference, when no matter where you are you can. Don't EVER let them tell you
otherwise. - Sally
This is an interview from one of the SAGADA11, her name is Ann, living at
Marikina City Philippines. We interviewed her with a condition that we won't ask
her about what happen or to re-summarized the incident of torture.
Q: What were you feeling when most of your visitors unfamiliar faces?
A: I'm very much happy, I'd seen the true camaraderie really stands for,
thinking that we are just genre-mates or let say punk-mates.
Q: Have anyone told you the actions done by the Internet Justice League?
A: Yes,
Q: What do you know about them?
A: They are the ones that help to spread the issue internationally and they were
the ones that participated in the virtual sit-in done to pressure the Philippine
government by means of messing with their websites.
Q: Now that you are now out in jail, tell something about it.
A: At first; we're very much happy, but just after a few days had pass, a police
that introduced themselves as CHED (Commission on Higher Education)
representatives and was looking for me, fortunately I was out. My mother was
wise enough to trace it with the help of the CHED officials and said that they
didn't send anyone the look for Ann. In the case of PETRA, someone also came to
his school and showed some photos; Ray Lester (Petra) with someone in High
status of the NPA (New Peoples Army), creating a hearsays, at school that Petra
is a real NPA. We are required to report to the DSWD (Department of Social
Welfare and Development). We are also told that Camp Crame has an eye watching
us, under surveillance
Q: Aside from being happy, what other emotion arise from being released?
A: I'm somewhat ashame, because people tells me that "so you are already out in
jail"
Q: Why are you ashame when people tells you that?
A: Because my family treat me differently. When they tells me that, I'm thinking
that they believed that I'm what I'm accused of. I'm also ashame also because
the society is not accustomed to a girl, especially at my age, already got a
piece of taste in jail.
Q: Treat differently, what do you mean, bad or good treat differently?
A: both bad and good; the society now treats me like I'm the only one that
needed the help. How about those other person that need more of their reaching
arms. I don't what them to treat me baby, different from the other, I just want
them to treat as what they treated me before.
Q: Are you studying?
A: Yes, I'm grateful that we've reached the school's enrollment period.
Q: Now that you are studying. What are your plan?
A: Spend it schooling, time is taking a toll at me.
Q: How about going to gigs and mobilization/movements?
A: I think going to gigs would be fine, but mobilization, maybe I'll just say
pass for now.
Q: What is you greatest fear?
A: I don't want that to happened to me or to anyone else anymore.
Q: You said that you would be lay lowing on the mobilization. How do you plan to
contribute for you fear not to happen.
A: I've seen many points from that experience. I've seen what is wrong, and
learned a lot from this experience. All I have to do, is to share this
experience so that is wouldn't happen to anyone anymore.
Q: This would be my final question. What do you still need?
A: For me? Maybe your question should be not what i need, but what do the
remaining SAGADA 11 needs?
Q: What do you think they need?
A: Food is a major need they have to think everyday. Food is given not to
satisfy their hunger but just for the stomach to be filled with something. I
think that they need money to accommodate this needs.
To send help contact us in liberation_asusual@yahoo.com or pjames_e@yahoo.com.au
MANILA: BrigadaElektronica electronic disturbance group strikes again
"Technology has boasted that it enables people in getting closer to each other,
so we are going to show that if we can't get closer to Malakanyang and protest,
we will closely express ourselves inside Malakanyang palace itself by just one
click," says one of the group's technician who want to keep anonymity.
MANILA-- The current ban of public assemblies and free speech in the streets
has given birth to online protest action namely- "electronic sit-in."
BrigadaElektronica electronic disturbance group first introduced electronic
sit-in last year as an online version of support to the striking workers of
Gelmart in Metro Manila who then occupied the factory, held a picket line and
obstructed the capitalist boss's activity in laying-off the workers. The group
held a similar action by occupying (sit-in) the official Gelmart website; of
course, the action successfully declared "no business as usual, workers on
strike!" (the Gelmart website literally stopped as thousands of online
participants joined the sit-in)
This time, the electronic disturbance group is once again announcing their
second electronic sit-in campaign, targeting the Malakanyang website, PNP and
Office of the President. The action officially starts on March 23, 2006, it will
last until the first of April.
"Technology has boasted that it enables people in getting closer to each other,
so we are going to show that if we can't get closer to Malakanyang and protest,
we will closely express ourselves inside Malakanyang palace itself by just one
click," says one of the group's technician who want to keep anonymity.
The group also said that this electronic sit-in demands the unconditional
release of eleven young backpackers including a fifteen-year-old girl who were
illegally arrested, tortured and wrongfully accused as NPA's by Philippine
authorities, while the innocent-care-free kids were only just hitchhiking on
their way to the beautiful Sagada Mountains. "If the responsible authorities
will not take heed for the call of these kids' parents who were very much
dishearten for taking away their sons and daughters the freedom to travel;
government websites will virtually be deleted. " says one of the technicians.
"The Benguet Police and Military must also give apologies to the victims of
their inhuman activities," demands the group.
Computer-savvy protesters start
'virtual sit-in' campaign
COMPUTER-SAVVY Philippine protesters took civil disobedience to cyberspace
Thursday, launching a "virtual sit-in" campaign that urged online activists to
overwhelm the police Web site with numerous hits.
Protesting alleged human rights abuses, protesters calling themselves
"Electronic Brigade" opened a Web site that directs visitors to the main
national police site.
"You are about to take part in an online direct action protest. Please confirm
that you are willingly taking part in this action by clicking OK or exit without
taking part by clicking cancel," the message said.
The activists, who are not identified, said their brand of "hacktivism" is legal
because it technically involves just visiting a Web site.
Police did not comment immediately, and it wasn't clear how many hits their Web
site recorded.
The activists' Web site opens with a cartoon of the "Electronic Brigade" members
dressed as super heroes, wearing masks and caps. A blurb accuses police of
rampant human rights violations, including allegedly torturing 11 teenagers it
said were wrongfully accused of being communist guerrillas.
The 11 young people were arrested last month while on their way to the northern
tourist town of Sagada. Their lawyer, Pablito Sanidad, on Thursday asked a court
in northern Benguet province to free them, saying they were arrested without
warrants or probable cause.
Provincial police chief Senior Superintendent Villamor Bumanlag earlier said the
11 were identified by government militiamen as communist guerrillas and denied
they were tortured.
Bringing Street Protest to Cyberspace
by Manila Indymedia
NEWSBREAK! (28/3/2006) HACKTIVISTS expressing solidarity with the 11 political
prisoners known as the Sagada 11 have hacked and defaced the website belonging
to the National Defense College of the Philippines. Their website now reads, "We
don't need the government, we don't need the military, we need JUSTICE AND
LIBERTY for the SAGADA 11!", along with several links encouraging people to show
their support.[ Read More ]
UPDATES! (26/3/2006) VIRTUAL SIT-IN ends today, says BrigadaElektronica in a
message forwarded through emails, the group thanked the participants who
corageously joined the direct action that shuts the PNP website down (wednesday
March 23). About 1,088 users participated in the action bringing the message
FREE SAGADA 11. The group vowed to continue the campaign, saying, "stay tuned
for our next target."
UPDATES! (24/3/2006) GEOCITIES.YAHOO.COM responded to the ongoing virtual sit-in
by blatantly deleting the html pages that had been set-up by BrigadaElektronica
and JLI. But the group says "no need to worry," after suggesting cyber
protestors to use the mirror sites.
UPDATES! (23/3/2006) HACKTIVISTS from USA expressed solidarity with Filipino
online activists by hijacking the PNP.GOV.PH "Report a Crime" form with an
automated response that let people join the virtual sit-in. [ Read More ]
A GROUP of online activists offered an alternative space to protest after the
Philippine Government violently prohibited the streets and freedom parks to
exercise public assembly and practice freedom of speech. The online activists
calling themselves BrigadaElektronica electronic disturbance group organized an
"electronic sit-in"- bringing street protest actions on cyberspace.
Electronic sit-in is a form of electronic civil disobedience deriving its name
from the sit-ins popular during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, a
virtual sit-in attempts to re-create that same action digitally using a DDoS.
During an electronic sit-in, hundreds of activists attempt to access a target
website simultaneously and repetitively. If done right, this will cause the
target website to run slowly or even collapse entirely, preventing anyone from
accessing it. [source: wikipedia]
The action officially starts on March 23, 2006 (10:00am Manila time), it will
last until the first of April. They are inviting everyone to join and occupy the
Philippine National Police website for being a rampant human rights violator.
[ Read More ][ UPDATES FROM HACKSITES: Post.Thing.Net | SDHacklab |
Hacktivist.com | Hackthissite ]
Interview with Brigada Elektronika
A: When did it all started? Let's decipher the myth, give basic ideas or
principles of Brigada Elektronika on the slate for the stream of conscious
humanity (left in anyone) to digest.
ErroR: It started as a direct action project to support the striking workers of
Gelmart Inc., last year. The mission was to launch a parallel action online. So
basically, it was the specific mission which binded the group to fulfill the
project. Obviously, the project is very temporary and momentary. Three
individuals were involved in this project, one of them was inspired by the
Electronic Disturbance Theatre, hence, the name BrigadaElektronika was born.
A: Is the goal long term or short lived?
ErroR: We only want to create a snapshot or a spot from memory that will last
until time succumbs to death. Therefore, the goal is to let others create their
own moment i.e. direct action(wether it is hacking, sit-in,etc.) Because, to
attain freedom/liberation is neither Long or Short.
A: Most of the activist circles are rather new to this form of direct action.
Can this be a new wave of method & vantage point for people, when Free Speech is
outlawed when it crosses the line?
ErroR: Yes. Because, as an activist, IMAGINATION is our duty. It is our only arm
to fight all forms of authority that threatens our capacity to think and
express.
A: What are the dynamics of the group. Do you support various struggles that is
not directly connected with the Brigada Elektronika in organizational basis..
ErroR: The group is so loose, and we dont even consider BrigadaElektronika a
group, but rather a name of a project. So in terms of connecting to others in
organizational basis, we prefer our individual capacity to decide and commit in
joining other group's action and projects.
A: Ive been informed that online/or virtual sit ins are legal in some cases. Can
you elaborate this to justify attacking several targets including the PNP
servers.
ErroR: There is no law that prohibits anyone to visit a website. It is simple as
that.
A: Do you consider yourself a hacker, anarchist if anything.. In times of war,
commodity & marketed foods with plastic labels. How do you label yourself?
ErroR: I consider myself as a dreamer, struggling to exist in this World who
proclaimed that dreaming is dead.
A: Few criticisms coming from the elements of poseudo luddites & immature
elements in the counterculture scene view virtual direct actions are mere
assimilation to the machinery of the State. What is your opinion? Do you have
any counter arguments about this..
ErroR: A virus cannot be assimilated by any kind of systems, imagine you are a
virus. This tiny little virus once it penetrates a system, it can shutdown even
the most formidable structure.
A: Lines have been drawn & there is no turning back. Comments, statement you'd
like to address.. before we wrap this shit up.
ErroR: Things have been tough lately for dreamers. They say dreaming's dead,
that no one does it anymore. It's not dead, it's just been forgotten. Removed
from our language. No one teaches it so no one knows it exists. The dreamer is
banished to obscurity. Well I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are
too. By dreaming every day.Dreaming with our hands and dreaming with our minds.
Our planet is facing the greatest problems it's ever faced. Ever. So whatever
you do, don't be bored. This is absolutely the most exciting time we could have
possibly hoped to be alive.
And things are just starting.
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