{"id":14634,"date":"2013-10-31T19:54:37","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=14634"},"modified":"2013-10-31T19:54:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T14:24:37","slug":"million-mask-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/million-mask-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Million Mask March &#8211; A world-wide campaign against corruption and tyranny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 5th is celebrated as <strong>Guy Fawkes Day<\/strong> in Britain, as the day of resistance and rebellion against government corruption and tyranny.\u00a0 Guy Fawkes was an Elizabethan nobleman and a politician, who was involved in plot to overthrow the British government during the 1600s<\/p>\n<p>Today Guy Fawkes and his mask are a symbol of revolution and equality. \u00a0On this November 5th, Trivandrum will witness masked flock who call themselves \u201c<strong>Anons<\/strong>\u201d marching up to the Secretariat as part of the worldwide movement called \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/millionmaskmarch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Million Mask March<\/a>.\u2019 The march is in solidarity with the massive worldwide movement and will be taken out from Kesavadasapuram to the Secretariat from 9 am.<\/p>\n<p>The worldwide event is organised by an open forum called \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anonymous_(group)\" target=\"_blank\">Anonymous<\/a>\u2019, a loosely associated international network of activists and hacktivists. Anonymous is not an organisation. It is the people and there are no leaders. Their logo, the &#8220;man without a head&#8221; represents leaderless organization and anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Trivandrum Chapter of the movement is organised by a group of youngsters, all based in the city.<\/strong> The march gained momentum among the youth in the city through social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. The members of the march will be wearing the \u2018Anonymous mask.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Organizers have already sought the permission from the City Police Commissioner. The march will be a peaceful event and will cause no disturbance to the public. &#8220;This is a time to peacefully stand up against the corruption that is prevalent in our society. It is an opportunity to express our right of free speech while we have it&#8221; said the organisers to IE.<\/p>\n<p>Million Mask March World Event will be organised in more than 400 countries and their mission is \u201cto remind this world what it has forgotten, that fairness, justice and freedom are more than just words\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 5th is celebrated as Guy Fawkes Day in Britain, as the day of resistance and rebellion against government corruption and tyranny.\u00a0 Guy Fawkes was an Elizabethan nobleman and a politician, who was involved in plot to overthrow the British government during the 1600s Today Guy Fawkes and his mask are a symbol of revolution [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-14634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}