4 posts tagged “anonymous v. scientology”

Eastern Washington University (the even more East version of Central) got Rick Rolled on Saturday during a girl's basketball game.  I find that both awesome and hilarious at the same time.

I like how they even got the cheerleaders to go along with it.  And how the crowd gets into the song and starts dancing to the song (and not just the plants).

It's Pi Day!

(Shut up, I'm a math geek.)  I wish I could celebrate Pi Day by eating pie but it's really not worth making one since I'm moving tomorrow.

Also, don't forget, tomorrow's the next round of the anti-Scientology protests.

A little over a month ago Anonymous held their first protest against Scientology.  This Saturday (March 15th) they're doing it again.  Protests will be held all around the world so keep an eye out for one near you.  If you don't know why a group of people from the internet are protesting Scientology, check out these links.  You can also check out Operation Mock and Enturbulation (although their site seems to be running a little slow right now - understandably so) for more information.  If I wasn't going to be moving crap out of my apartment this weekend, I might have a chance to go downtown and see them.  Hopefully the protests will make the news again.

A few of weeks ago, shortly after the Tom Cruise Scientology video was leaked, a group of people calling themselves Anonymous decided to get together and start protesting Scientology on the internet.  They did some DOS attacks and posted a bunch of papers online.  (You can read more here and here.)  Last week they decided to hold protests today (the 10th of February) outside of Scientology centers all around the world.  Apparently it was quite a success because news media came out at many sites and a lot of the protests had 100+ people attend.  (You can check out some of the protests here and keep an eye on your local news to see if they talk about it.)  I was looking through the Seattle thread and I can't believe I didn't know there was a Scientology center at that corner.  I've driven by that intersection more times than I can count.  Of course, it is a pretty shabby building so maybe that's why.  Anyway, their march took them right past the local ABC building so I'll be watching the local news to see if they mention anything.  To be honest, I'm surprised all these protests turned out to be so big - I didn't think they would be able to organize that many people in public.