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Sweeping The Globe: #MillionMaskMarch Impossible To Ignore

November 10, 2014 by Endarken Follow @endarken @endarken

Supporters of the Million Mask March, dozens or hundreds of them on the march, wearing Guy Fawkes masks.

Anonymous supporters, one wearing a sign which reads “MH17 Stop The Cover Up” demonstrate outside the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014. According to Dutch experts Malaysia Airlines flight 17 was brought down over the Ukraine by “high-energy objects from outside the aircraft” killing everybody on board. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Originally published at the Occupy New Zealand Media Team blog Occupy Savvy.

Over 400 cities worldwide demonstrated what a REAL “Wave of Action” looks like, celebrating Guy Fawkes Day (November 5th) by congregating in major city centres the world over to spread messages of awakening to their fellow citizens and commemorate the growth of the Anonymous movement.

Becoming ever larger with each passing year, the Million Mask March (known as MMM) 2014 marks the first major penetration of the event into mainstream media coverage, despite their desperate attempt to black-out MMM in previous years.

With this year’s event covered by Reuters and The Guardian, and not just RT, it does seem that the MSM worm is turning.

And the BBC have now learned the hard way that if you refuse to cover thousands of protesters converging on a major city centre they may well just bring their grievances to your front doorstep, leaving you little choice but to acknowledge their presence.

Even the alleged (and very familiar) reports of post-event manipulation of Google results could not suppress the massive onslaught of citizen and independent media. Participants have long since learned to become the media, replacing the inauthentic filtered echo chambers of the past with their own authentic and untrained voices.

As usual, ex-CIA agent Ray McGovern discussing events on RT is a total must-watch:

As is this extremely powerful video from London, where the crowds of protesters swelled into the tens of thousands, marching on a half-dozen locations simultaneously, and vastly outnumbering the police present:

Also check out this awesome picture montage video already up on Vimeo. Lovely stuff.

A collection of the best of the event media we have seen so far is below, for your viewing pleasure.

RT @GeorgieBC: Happy #Anonymous Day kids. 463 cities. Not just 5 Twitter acounts. #MillionMaskMarch #MMM #Nov5th pic.twitter.com/PY22fr4OzP

— FriendofTrees (@JamiaStarheart) November 7, 2014

Section 1: Citizen Media (by city) Auckland, New Zealand:  

#Anonymous solidarity from Auckland New Zealand #MillionMaskMarch via @OccupyNZ | #N5 #MMMAKL #MMM #Nov5th pic.twitter.com/XgjOvlFzlo — Revolution News (@NewsRevo) November 5, 2014

(There is also 7 short video solidarity statements from Kiwi Anons published in @endarken‘s article about covering #MMMAKL found here: “We Must Never Sanitise Or Homogenise Our Messages Or Our Pain“) Glasgow, Scotland:  

#MillionMaskMarch #MMM Glasgow on #Nov5th >>> pic.twitter.com/94mflVCwjC — #GovernThis (@Anon_Online) November 5, 2014

Peru:  

¿Algún medio de prensa en el #Peru que haya hecho alguna nota sobre el evento #MillionMaskMarch #Anonymous #5Nov ? pic.twitter.com/i5QzK8cJdC — Anonymous Peru (@AnonymousPeru) November 7, 2014

Belgrade, Serbia:  

Picture of the day: Anti-capitalist protest comes to #Belgrade (REUTERS/Marko Djurica) #MillionMaskMarch pic.twitter.com/A2Fzpb0FWm — Bora Kaymaz (@bora_kaymaz) November 6, 2014

Halifax, Canada:  

#millionmaskmarch #halifax #canada #remember5thnovember #anonymous #opvendetta #expectus #mmm by anonymous_grijze pic.twitter.com/OH9ahXoK0p — Insta Tag Canada (@instatagcanada) November 6, 2014

Ferguson, Missouri:  

Arrests made as #Ferguson protesters join global #MillionMaskMarch http://t.co/1ugKXJZyKH … #Nov5th #Anonymous #MMM pic.twitter.com/yCdJG… — Κινηματικά Νέα (@movement_news) November 6, 2014

Japan:  

#MillionMaskMarch #アノニマス トークライブ @ 宮下公園、澁谷 P.1 http://t.co/f0w85vkhYt — チャノロジー・アノニマス (@JapanAnon) November 5, 2014

Detroit, Michigan:

we are anonymous. we are legion. we do not forgive. we do not forget. #MillionMaskMarch #Detroit #Anonymous pic.twitter.com/TuLJ877kZz

— ʝɑɗɛ (@_c0existence) November 6, 2014

Section 2: Established Media The Independent: ‘Thousands Gather For Anti-Capitalist Protest In London’ The Dallas Observer: ‘Dallas’ Anonymous Million Masks March’ TruthDig: Million Mask March – The New Face of Protest The Daily Dot: Inside Anonymous’ Million Mask March Section 3: Complaints of Media Silence/Bias  

@MotherJones I’m disappointed that you guys one of my favs when it comes to news, didn’t cover #MillionMaskMarch — Mz. Nform’d (@shandon07107) November 6, 2014

 

  So the BBC said there was 50 people last night #AnonymousScotland #Anonymous #MillionMaskMarch #MMM #occupyedinburgh pic.twitter.com/lKXcHhqxYW — Ben. (@AnonScotEdin) November 6, 2014

Section 4: Other Significant Videos A section of the Washington, DC march splintered off to the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover Building – causing some police there to have a complete meltdown before the crowd all put their hands in the air and chanted “Hands Up! Don’t Shoot!” Ferguson-style.  

#MMM vs #FBI #DC #HandsUpDontShoot http://t.co/CwDuO2gakl — Occupy #NatGat (@NatGat2014) November 6, 2014

Elsewhere in DC, protesters made a stop at the Monsanto HQ. Monsanto is of course the pro-GMO corporation widely believed to be responsible for the decline of the global bee population.

And the icing on the cake: a video shot from inside the BBC headquarters in London, with swathes of British protesters massing outside in anger at the BBC’s frequent and famous suppression of anti-government protest events. Not this time, though!

We also love this amazing photo but have been unable as yet to establish where it is from; if you know, please leave a comment and tell us!

#Anonymous #MillionMaskMarch pic.twitter.com/G3GUPNR3c2

— HDG (@hdgremix) November 6, 2014

Thank you and solidarity to all who participated in the #MillionMaskMarch, around the globe.

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Filed Under: Civil Liberties, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: #MillionMaskMarch, Amsterdam, Anonymous, Association of International Broadcasting awards, Auckland, BBC headquarters, Belgrade, Canada, CIA, DC, Detroit, Edinburgh, Ferguson, Glasgow, GMOs, Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes Day, Halifax, Hans Up Don't Shoot, Japan, London, Michigan, Million Mask March, Missouri, MMM, Monsanto, MotherJones, Netherlands, New Zealand, Occupy, Occupy New Zealand, Occupy NZ, Occupy Wall St., Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Peru, Ray McGovern, Reuters, RT, Scotland, Serbia, STL, The Daily Dot, The Dallas Observer, The Guardian, The Independent, Truthdig, United Kingdom, V for Vendetta, Washington, Wave of Action

Comments

  1. Kit O'Connell says

    November 10, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    It was a VERY rainy day in Austin, and not much participation here anyway right now, so I’ve been enjoying the reports from all over. Thanks to you and your team for collecting such great images, videos and links first hand accounts. As always, citizen journalism is the way of the future…

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