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Wanneer: 03/09/2012 - 23:19

A genuinely conscious web developer, Jeremy Hammond is accused of using his computer savvy to attack conservative groups and State operators. He is being charged with providing Wikileaks the documents for their latest Stratfor release.

Jeremy Hammond is a 27-year-old political activist from Chicago, Illinois. Hammond is allegedly the main hacker behind the hack of Stratfor, a quasi-private corporate intelligence and strategic analysis firm with close ties to the national security state.

Stratfor’s clients include not only giant corporations like Bank of America, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, but U.S. govern- ment agencies, including all four branches of the military, the FBI, Homeland Security and local police forces. As a private spy agency, Stratfor avoids constitutional constraints. Internal emails published by WikiLeaks offer disturbing revelations about the hidden workings of the military industrial complex. The hack revealed that Stratfor employs a network of paid in- formants that include government employees and journalists. The hack also revealed that Stratfor client Dow Chemical paid for spying on the Yes Men activists working to seek redress for the Bhopal environmental disaster. Stratfor was also hired by the Texas Department of Public Safety to infiltrate Occupy Austin.

Jeremy Hammond is part of a growing world-wide movement of political activists who utilize advanced technologies to accomplish their political goals of disseminating information, holding governments, law enforcement, individuals and corporations accountable for their misdeeds, and mobilizing real-world global protest.

Jeremy’s case is by no means unique; he, alike many more online and otherwise political activists are routinely targeted by national security groups and are put away for speaking out. Don’t let these attempts at repression succeed.

If you are interested in donating to the Jeremy Hammond Defense fund visit http://freehammond.com/
Please write to him at: Jeremy Hammond # 18729 - 424 Metropolitan Correctional Center 150 Park Row, New York, New York, 10007

http://freehammond.com/