Aaron Swartz, Reddit Co-Founder and Hero that Saved the Internet, Found Hanged in Apartment
26-year-old Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, who also co-wrote RSS (while 13 & 14 years old) and was an Internet activist (who helped save the internet), …
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Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Arrested for Exposing Stratfor’s Inner Workings as a Deep State Front Organization
Jeremy Hammond is a hacktivist who was sentenced to spend a decade in prison for hacking the private intelligence firm Stratfor and releasing the leaks …
The ‘Stop Online Piracy Act’ (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA) Bills to End Internet Freedom were Defeated
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) (also known as the E-PARASITE Act, House Bill 3261, or H.R. 3261) was a bill that was being considered by the U.S. …
The Occupy Movement Begins and Almost Ended a Month Later with an FBI Assassination Plot
Labor unions, communists, “community organizers,” socialists, and anti-capitalist agitators all joined together to “Occupy Wall Street” and protest against “greed,” corporations, and bankers. But despite …
Activists Win as Fluoridation Spigots were Finally Turned Off in Calgary
After twenty-plus years of Fluoridation, the Fluoride spigots were finally turned off in Calgary On January 26, 2011, City Council Members of the SPC-U&E Committee …
Indian Patriot and Anti-Globalist Activist Rajiv Dixit Dies Mysteriously
(India) – The mysterious death of a true patriot, Rajiv Dixit, was followed by no investigation or postmortem report. Cardiac arrest or slow poisoning? The …
Kinney, Minnesota declares its Secession from the U.S. Frustrated by its Failing Water System
On February 5, 1978, a little northern Minnesota newspaper called the Mesabi Daily News broke a story that had somehow managed to go unreported for …
US Army Captain of Intelligence Exposes Broad-based Program of Domestic Spying
Christopher H. Pyle (born 1939), a journalist and Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts testified to Congress about the use …
Ruby Bridges Becomes the First African-American Child to Attend an All-White Public Elementary School in the American South.
Ruby Bridges (born September 8, 1954) was six when she became the first African-American child to integrate a white Southern elementary school on November 14, …
The Civil Rights Era Began with a Lunch Counter Sit-In at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina
Four North Carolina black college students staged the first Greensboro sit-in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, to protest segregation on Feb. 1, …