In East Timor, freedom fighters hacked into Indonesian websites to protest the treatment of the Timorese by the Indonesian army. You can see a mirror of the hack at attrition.org. In southern Mexico, indigenous peoples in the impoverished state of Chiapas demanded the rights to health care, schooling, and independence. The Zapatista uprising went largely unnoticed until, with the help of Internet hackers and mainstream groups such as Greenpeace and Ammesty International, Zapatista leader Subcommandante Marcos got the word out on the Web. Other grassroots groups like Labor.net, Peace.net, and Green.net have seized the networks to spread their political messages.
Anarchist groups are all also over the place.
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