Million Mask March: Anti-establishment protests expected in over 670 cities across the world
Anonymous have called on protesters to assemble at 'State Capitols & City Halls from 9am to 5pm' with marches beginning at 'rush hour'
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Your support makes all the difference.Thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets today in over 670 cities across the world wearing Guy Fawkes masks, as part of the anti-establishment Million Mask March.
The march, organised by Anonymous, the “hacktivist” group linked to cyber-attacks against governments, multi-national corporations such as Visa, the Church of Scientology and the BNP, is expected to be the group’s largest since the so-called, “Anonymous Army” began its rallies four years ago.
According the march’s London Facebook page, the protests are an attack against the “encroaching destruction of many civil liberties”, the creation of a “surveillance state” and the “government's disregard for migrants, for the poor, the elderly and the Disabled”.
The group have used the Guy Fawkes mask, made famous by the film and graphic novel V for Vendetta, since 2008 as a symbol of their anonymity and are infamous for using social media as a tool to vocalise their agenda.
Described on its website as the “largest global protest in World History”, “flash mobs” are expected to take place in 675 cities across the world, including Washington DC, London, Argentina and Sydney.
Anonymous have called on protesters to assemble at “State Capitols & City Halls from 9am to 5pm”, with marches beginning at “rush hour”.
In London, the group have called on protesters to assemble at the Ecuadorian Embassy wearing “white judicial wigs, black robes and Anonymous masks”, while in Washington DC, people have been summoned to “march to Obama’s House”.
In Germany, a Facebook page inviting people to the march says: “It is no longer just about the freedom on the internet, no, no, no, it’s about the freedom of the human race!"
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