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March 15 Raid

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Numbers in (parentheses) indicate change from Feb 10 raids. Overall situation is: EPIC WIN. NUMBERS ARE UP FROM ***ALL*** REPORTS IN SO FAR, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW AMERICAN CITIES. (significantly, Los Angeles, Seattle, Clearwater and Orlando). (oh, and AUS: Perth was down ~50, but all other AUS were up.)

TOTAL ESTIMATE FROM ALL REPORTS IN SO FAR: ~7200 protesters. (Actual total is likely to be higher since not all reports are passed to us.)

IRL Raids : March 15 : Results
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[edit] Canada: Vancouver, BC

Approximation: 150 at the height of the protest, an estimated 400 total (that's about twice as much as last raid; WIN)

http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh50/vanlulz/Vancouver%20Operation%20Party%20Hard/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKpWyoPDKUo

There was cake and pizza.

And epic stare-down.

2 police officers were offered cake. They declined.

Oh yeah. We also rickrolled them, and Bel-Air'd them. Also rickroll'd a train as the group dispersed.

[edit] United States: Sacramento, CA

11:00 AM to 5:00? PM

http://s260.photobucket.com/albums/ii12/anon457/prochan/

  • WIN 60+ heads, 20 more than Feb
  • no police problems at all
  • actually got rickrolled by car horn...lulz
  • cake
  • tons of honks of support, and interested passerbys
  • [Strike]news coverage by FOX 40 News tonite a 10[/Strike]
  • ^nope^
  • reports of one anon group tailed by scifag
  • Ex-scientologist marches in support. (Thanks anonymous!)

[edit] United States: Los Angeles, CA

11:00 to 14:00 morning protest

  • Initial reports are of much win; lots of honking in our favor, lots of Anons, and even PIions with guns! The police presence was much more noticeable this time, but they were all totally cool, from current understnding.
  • Turnout estimates: at least 200, including WiseBeardMan, definitely more and most everyone was epic
    • /r/ RECOUNT CONFIRMATION, REPORTS OF 500 HAVE BEEN COMING IN.
  • When the PIion with the piece was spotted, a Spartan was quickly dispatched to follow with a sign pointing him out
  • Many fliers were handed out to passerbys

16:30 protest IN PROGRESS at THE SHRINE

[edit] United States: Tustin/Irvine, CA

14:00 to 18:30 afternoon (with some Anon presence until ???)

  • 101% WIN!!1one! Tons of honking, passing fliers to far-right lane, cops were mostly on our side and very noticeable. They even watched our cars!!!! No arrests or citations. One warning.
  • A few crazy Scinos driving around with cameras (odd husband/wife team?). Some dude came out from inside the org and we posed for a group pic. Odd car/camera teams posted on various intersections and driveways. They fled when I turned my cam on them.
  • Estimated turnout of 20-25. Had a couple people join us from the LA protest at around 4:00. Got some of the cops and peds interested.
  • Most left at around 6:00. As we cleaned up, a group of 4 came by and picked up the signs. No idea how late they stayed.

[edit] United States: Las Vegas, NV

Dual events: A march down the Las Vegas Strip and the regular protest across the street from the Co$ center on Sahara ave

[edit] The March

The only raid to have a 4-mile march, Las Vegas was fun as hell for all involved. Meeting started at 11:00am, and slowly Anonymous trickled in at the meeting point in front of the MGM lion on Tropicana and Las Vegas Blvd. Protesting was had and flyers were handed out until 12:35pm, when the march began.

Marching north on Las Vegas Blvd, we shouted and handed out flyers. No music was available, so no rickrolls. Near the end of the march, though, word came in that Metro was not allowing protesting without a permit and was requiring mask removal. This got the group down, until an Anonymous gave a speech about how hard we've all worked. After some shouts of joy, we continued our march.

At about 2:20, more than an hour and a half later, we arrived to delicious cake, water, and more Anonymous.

[edit] The Protest

Raid commenced at 11:30am. The intial number of Anon present was 3. Balls of steel. The Scilons must have told the police one hell of a blood/sex/crime story about the evils of the internet hate machine. There were cops EVERYWHERE, they even had an abmulance there on stand-by. They seemed to be expecting a some kind of bloodbath but were dissapointed and bored when that didn't happen. They settled for just hassling Anony-mom and the other anons every once in a while. The Scilons were out in-force, at times, outnumbering Anonymous. One anon on the way to the march said he was tailed in his car for several miles after stopping by the protest. Over time, other anon trickled in here-and-there, increasing the number to 12, all waiting with bated breath. Then... at 2:15pm a large group was spotted on Sahara ave approaching from the west, in the direction of the Strip. The tension was thick... then as the group approached, a white mask was spotted! And another! Then three more! Guy Fawkes! Suddenly Anonymous, thousands of them (well... dozens of them, anyway). At 2:27pm the cavalry has arrived. EPIC WIN. Over the next hour-and-a-half, delicious cake was eaten, dox were distributed, pickets were waved, rickrolls were sung, car horns were honked, and very special "Happy Birthday to You" was sung for LRH. At this point, there were several plants loitering around, but they were being friendly and "chummy" rather than abusive or disruptive. At 4:00pm, shouting promises that we'll be back next month, Anonymous cleaned up and left the scene without incident.

  • The current unoffical headcount is 45, although the final total may be higher.
  • Metro was border-line abusive.
  • No media, not even KLAS. EPIC FAIL.
  • Someone claims to have been tailed while driving during the raid.
  • Scilons seem to be using (abusing) more political clout this time.

[edit] United States: Reno, NV

11:00 to 15:00+ protest

  • 10-15 brave Anonymous, no visible Scilons or PIlons noticable except a few spotted going into the local Scilon Basestar after protest marched from original meeting point to Scilon space. Sadly no music or cake, but some verbal Rickrollage and many horns honked. Scilon neighbors welcomed us there and were glad that we had finally made it to dethrone the prince of Bel Air.

[edit] United States: San Francisco, CA

http://flickr.com/photos/24709407@N07

http://s201.photobucket.com/albums/aa286/kuffarjahideen/Scientology%20Protest%202/

http://flickr.com/photos/jasondefillippo/sets/72157604128893769/

http://flickr.com/photos/royalpineapple/sets/72157604124529958/

http://flickr.com/photos/buddyrockafeller/sets/72157604123096962/

http://flickr.com/photos/memphisand53rd/sets/72157604125111776/

http://flickr.com/photos/24713367@N07/sets/72157604128664459/

http://rapidshare.com/files/99892590/PROTESTCHANFULL.rar.html

Caps of a live-streaming attempt. Had all sorts of problems so only about 15 min of actual feed. Hopefully I'll have all the kinks worked out by next time:

Feed Setup (mostly fail) http://rapidshare.com/files/100064065/clip1.ogg.html

Actual Feed (not as much fail) http://rapidshare.com/files/100064066/clip2.ogg.html

Chocolate mudkip caek was had by all!

MegaphoneBitch and Beehive rocked the megaphone. Continous rickrolling of Co$ occured until someone gave MegaphoneBitch an Ipod much to the delight of all.

Many cars and bikes circled to honk moar! Firetruck also rang bell in support, along with saint patty's day parade boat! Numbers at peak were between 250 & 300.

    • NOTE: If you took pictures, upload them to a Flikr account and link them in here! (click 'Edit' above and add the link above, then click 'Save page')**

[edit] United States: Mountain View, CA

Complete win. About 25 people showed up. Only a few CoS members were noted. One came by telling us we were all pedophiles and child molesters, saying it's a good thing we had masks on, then calling us assholes. Gave Anon the finger as his picture was taken.

Police were awesome and informed us of the "bullshit" (their words) CoS report that we were blocking traffic. Police were watching us the whole time and were rewarded with cookies and a thank you card.

One Anon was sneakily followed to his car and ambushed with camera, taking photos of him and his license plate.

Photos: http://flickr.com/photos/anmoyunos/sets/72157604129027631/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24735701@N06/sets/72157604124778326/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sock/sets/72157604126992029/

MV Anon Flickr Group (not sure why pics in the pool can't be seen without joining...settings say it's completely open)

http://www.flickr.com/groups/anonmv/

[edit] United States: San Jose, CA

Total success. We had about 25-30 anons throughout the whole thing. The CoS had their sidewalk sprinklers on to demotavate us but we just protested in the wetness. Eventually the cops had them turn it off because they were tired of getting wet. Tons of honks and we gave out hundreds of fliers. Best of all there was cake!

[edit] United States: San Diego, CA

Meet was at 11

Walked North to local Scientology center, protested for about an hour.

Walked south back to meet intersection spread over 6-8 intersections.

Approx 70-75

Flicker

More flicker

You tube video

Flicker Search of Anon in San Deigo

3-15 Video part 1

3-15 Viedo part 2

[edit] United States: Albuquerque, NM

Roughly twenty people showed up, and there was a yellow van parked in front of the cult center. photobucket

[edit] United States: Portland, OR

11:00 to 2:00pm Pacific time

  • Protest at main CoS center downtown (SW Salmon)
  • Solid protest, estimated 100+ people attending.
  • Coincided with an anti-war protest in Portland, with an excellent job done by the Anons (especially the women) on handing out a large volume of flyers.
  • Lots of great honking from hundreds of cards that drove down the main street.
  • An anon was approached by five CoS members who were in high school/college. Appeared be carrying CCHR or some sort of flyer.

Links to Photos:

Links to Videos:

PDXWiki: http://wiki.pdxanon.info/index.php?title=Main_Page

[edit] United States: Bellingham, WA

11:00 to 2:00pm Pacific time

  • Protested in front of CoS Org at 722 N. State Street.
  • Lots of honking, police drove by 3 times and waved each time.
  • Party hats were a hit, but the cake was a lie.
  • 12 people exactly. Great for our small town.

Some Photos. Site.

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[edit] United States: Salt Lake City, UT

Good turnout, no issues with police--Lt. Rusty Isakson came by and spoke with us shortly after arriving at the Scientology building; was very helpful, didn't mind that we had no leader and that permit guy was not there yet. One Scientologist assigned to argue with us failed pretty epically. Cake was had. Honks were plentiful, including a few by light rail drivers. One fail truck threw a cup of ice at an Anon, but no injuries reported beyond the embarrassment of sharing a city with said douchebag. Headcount: Best (and possibly only) single headcount was 38; peak participation estimated at approximately 45.

Photos:

http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii102/slcanon01/03152008/?start=all

Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uIlDIqil6Q - photo compilation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Oj9gIuLq2Y - Ides of March Speech from Anonymous to Scientology

[edit] United States: Denver, CO

Headcount at 11:45am - 88 People on the four-corners @ Broadway 1:35pm - Cake was served. Delicious and Moist. Headcount 92 people (3 anons counting for consistency) Estimated total count (up till 2pm, need better ballpark figure for later) ~135-145 (come and go count, not peak count)

[edit] Canada: Edmonton, AB

[edit] Mission Briefing

Meet up at Churchill Square at 11:30am. Raid will commence at noon.

It has snowed hard last night, but the temperature is expected to be -4. Use tuques and scarves like last time.

Although no hostiles were at the last raid, DO NOT let your guard down.

[edit] Mission Result

Over 60 people showed up, lots of honks if you think scientology is a cult responses, even by the police, Bus drivers, and road workers. (Best headcount was 64)

Peace protest down the street caused a lot of extra passers by.

We had had cake(delicious and moist), Starbucks employee bought us a box of coffee to show support.

Scifags didn't want any Cake (Thought it was a lie!), but we offered.

They took pictures, we took pictures while they tried.

Epic Win.

[edit] Videos

Pictures and videos are here http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh80/Thatoneguywiththeknife/

Edmonton anons sing "O Canada", Canada's national anthem.

Edmonton anons light candles on a birthday cake and sing Happy Birthday to LRH.

Edmonton anons singing Happy Birthday to LRH, while failing to light the sparkler candles as a symbolic representation of epic fail of the Co$.

Edmonton's supply of goods, and a passer-by eating delicious cake and showing support!

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[edit] United States: Kansas City, MO

11:00 to 15:00 morning protest We had about 67 at the high point, but after that many people came and went and we had about 100 total people there when it was all over. There were some possible scientologists driving around the block at the begining of the protest taking pictures and video from their car, but they quickly left. Midway through the protest some random lady came by and asked if we wanted pizza, only to return 45 minutes later with $127.23 worth of pizza for anonymous. Not only was there pizza, but we also had a OH SHI- cake. Even with the offering of cake, pizza and Will Smith music, the scientologists refused to come out and speak to us. There was lots of honking lots of dancing and lots of win. The police officer that was on watch was a bit of a bitch, refused to answer my questions and followed us to our car afterwards, but another squad car pulled over, took flyers and listened to us explain some of the crimes of Scientology and they approved of the protest.

WB hogged up the megaphone and spent about an hour ranting angrily at the Scientologists, inviting them to join in the party and telling the Xenu story out loud twice. Fortunatly, his voice became the only casualty of the protest.

[edit] United States: Chicago, IL

Turnout: 100+. Hard to tell, early on there were four or five groups of twenty, before breaking into the two major groups.

POSTGAME IRC: mudkipz.ath.cx #chicago or irc.pirated.ws #chifags which is the old partyvan channel.

Current enturb thread Actually, Enturb is dead : ( Use the irc.

[edit] The Raid

Potentially epic win raid that unfortunately, was only moderate win due to oppressive police. Around 11:15 a female police officer stopped her car and issued an ultimatum to all protesters: "Show a permit, disperse, or be arrested". This was coplicated by the issue that no permit exists for protesting as far as anyone has been able to learn. We told her this and she told us that if we don't show her a permit right now, we'll be arrested. I told her we'd do a moving protest then because they can't arrest us if we keep walking, and lead a group away.

Two or three groups of anons continued to demonstrate throughout the city, moving from place to place.

The police harassment we had is UNACCEPTABLE. Please read here for more info.

Video:

Pics:

[edit] Group 1: Long Walk / Marcabian Chess

Unlike the second, larger group, we did not stick around the scifag church after the police gave the order to disband. Instead, we hauled ass, covering nearly 6 miles of Chicago streets handing out fliers and showing our signs. Early on some construction workers started a chant for us, as they hammered on the el tracks. We got a lot of honks, and even one under cover police officer who was wearing a suit (maybe a detective) expressed support for what we were doing. Around 12:30 we returned to the church to see the same female police officer lecturing more demonstrates, and saw the other two groups. She was joined by a male police officer who told us to GTFO or be arrested (they REALLY liked that word today). We then continued our long haul around the city. In the end, while it was unfortunate that we were not aware of the protesters that stayed by the Church, getting the message out all around the north side was pretty awesome.

Memorable moments include: The chanting construction crew, the ambulance that honked at us, playing chess in a park using spaceships[1], the oh so many Saint Patrick's day drunks who shouted support and criticism at us from on foot, taxis, balconies, and more, and the drunks who threw sausages at us, which prompted one anon to say "Our sausages will blot out the sun.... so we will fight in the shade". we even got a free can of Red Bull each from a truck that was handing them out near the Belmont Brown Line stop. (Anyone else who was with us, feel free to add more events, quotes, or other fun stuff to this)

Video from Marcabian Chess / Long Walk group might be a bit due to technical considerations and the need to tweak some participants for better anonymity, especially with the whole "Anonymous Exposed" bullshit going on.

In any case, Long Walk is Long.

[edit] Group 2: Hopscotch

The main group circled the block by the scientology headquarters rickrolling, singing happy birthday, and generally displaying a huge show of force. Notable people included: Insanely Old Man, who was at least 80, and handed out newspapers, some random dancing retard, and Tall Black Ninja-man, who had the megaphone and led us in a chorus. Some of the most notable moments were several drunk people on balconies cheering two us, at least a couple CTA buses honking or us, a scifag in front of their building who declared that he was going to "get a wagon over here" if we didn't move further from the building, and finally the hopscotch course. There was a hopscotch course on the route, and we decided that the only rational thing to do was line up single file and play. If you've never seen 100 people line up and do hopscotch, you have not lived. The protest ended with the eating of delicious cake, which was decorated with "Party Hard" and "Happy Birthday L. Ron".

The longcat formation as many came to call it (Lining up single file, spreading ourselves out, and just circling the block across the street from the scifag building) was extremely successful. We weren't blocking anything and kept moving, so the police couldn't do a thing about us. It's a tiring, but successful tactic that should be worked into the plans for next time.

[edit] Group 3: ??????
[edit] Group 4: Profit!!!
[edit] Group 4a: Actually, We Could Profit...

Marcabian Chess for epic lulz

[edit] Other Groups

There were probably other groups out there too. Add info if you think you were in one that was neither longwalk, or hopscotch.

[edit] Guadalajara: Monterrey and Mexico: Mexico City

Mexico Enturbulation Thread

12pm: Anons still gathering 4:40pm: Protest was going on peacefully... (at 36°C... it was HOT) Local Scientology leader shows up in his car -the building was closed, but they left some kind of "janitor" to look after the scene-... after a brief while.. a police car showed up and asked some questions... he said it was ok and he leaves... after a while, he returns with another 2 police trucks and started to make questions.. they told us we needed to fill some "permission" sheets... but they saw we were actually trying to do a good thing and asked us to take the case to the local IRS or something on the lines...they sended us home.. peacefully still the cops agreeded with us :D

On a side note, after the Locale leader passed by, a party van showed up in front of the dianetics center with loud speakers, bongos and loud music... after we left, they left the place as well.. coincidence?

Images: Mexico Raid Cop Agreed Cops Dianetics+MxAnon PartyVan+Cops

  • Turnout Monterrey: 10
  • Turnout Guadalajara: ?
  • Turnout DF: ?

[edit] Canada: Winnipeg, MB

http://www.wpg-anonymous.net/

Well done Anons! At least 40 showed up to the protest. Everyone had a good time, kept it peaceful. A few were interviewed by the media, lots of flyers were distributed, the public showed us great support.

  • Whoever those two were that showed up with the car blasting music, well fucking done! I lol'd.
  • Once again, thank you to Wise Bike Man! Our friendly resident Ex-Scientology member.
  • Thank you to our North Dakotan Anons! We're so glad you could make it, and we hope you enjoyed yourselves.
  • And finally, THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING! WE'LL SEE YOU ALL APRIL 12th!!

[edit] United States: Austin, TX

Media etc: Temp: http://forums.enturbulation.org/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=22

Turnout: 80-100

[edit] United States: San Antonio, TX

No more than 12 total protesters. The protest started slow with 3 people. St. Patrick's Day parade happening at the same time and place made it hard for everyone to find each other. Afterwards, the protest picked up and snowcones and caek were had.

Media: To be added.

[edit] United States: Houston, TX

[edit] Media

To be added.

[edit] Attendance

About a hundred Anon, give or take.

[edit] Raid Events

The cake was not a lie; there was delicious cake as well as delicious cupcakes. Bottled water was plentiful, and it was fortunate - the heat was oppressive.

Signs were everywhere, on all four corners of the intersection of Fondren and Westheimer, and honks were gotten from many, MANY cars.

Houston police were watching Anon from a white van, clearly marked, but they didn't interfere with us.

The Anonymous speech was read and videotaped, and much fanfare was given.

Near the end, one Anon brought out a laptop and hooked it up to another Anon's car stereo to play such Anon classics as Rickroll, Bel Air, Chocolate Rain, and many more hits from the "LULZ" albums.

[edit] Infiltration Attempts

At least one Scilon put on a mask and tried to mingle with the crowd. He was clearly identified as a Scilon, though, and backed off.

Multiple Scilons were sitting at Starbucks monitoring Anon. It is presumed they were using SMS and cellphones to speak with their handlers inside the Scilon base, which was having an indoor picnic.

No Scilon children were seen here.

[edit] End Raid

The raid ended around 3:30 PM, and was generally considered to be a triumph, so we're making a note here: huge success.

It's hard to overstate our satisfaction.

Epic win.

Anon is looking forward to the next raid.

Also, if anyone has the replacement IRC info for Partyvan, please post it here, or on the IRC page - Partyvan is having DNS issues, apparently.

[edit] United States: Milwaukee, WI

Some Pics of the raid 11:00 Started small with maybe ten people. 12:00 Eventually hit 35. 1:00 Good amount of support, fliers, and a wasted pizza delivery. 1:30 Decided to leave at 1:45 1:45 Dispersed

Turnout:~30-35

 

[edit] United States: St. Louis, MO

80 people at one time. About 100 different anons flowed in and out. Great signage. The Scibase is on the quiet end of a major throughfare and marching up and down attracted a lot of attention, horn honks, and general lulz. Had a good time showing my sign in the front of all the glass lined windows. Lot of good question and answer sessions with people. We had a lot of really nice folks from the local jewish synagogue, talked to them about Purim and about how Scientology likes to destroy other religions by portraying their prophets as aspects of Xenu or other made up evil space figures.

The twinkies with "You Found the Cake" stickers were the best idea I saw all day. We had a disconnected ex-sci and she was awesome. Just listening to her talk about how much she missed her family kept me going all day.

The scikids kept to themselves. I had a fun debate with either two little JB scientologists or scene girls, we harassed a scientology photog and she tried to lie her way out, group speech scared somebody and they popped their head out. They took pictures from the third floor window and a partyvan that spent most of the morning rolling up and down the block, snapping pics. Cops were non-existant, and stayed far from us. They kept going in and out of the scibase, and I kept asking them how the auditing was doing. We heard about a couple of people getting tailed, but that's unconfirmed for the moment. Very solid work done by all.

[edit] United States: Biloxi, MS

At 11 am a merry band of Anonymous made their way down to the coast. Upon arrival we met up with another anonymous. We continued to walk up and down the beach with signs. it was semi-win. A weak scion engaged us from over 600 feet away. More and more members showed up as time passed. We now had 10+ members marching to war against the cult. Upon arrival we were met by two new Anonymous. We were informed that the scions have been calling the cops who then sent the animal control. We hoped there would be no dogs. Anyway 22 members present and we got the cops to like us while the scions are held up in their mission.

Half the town now hates them and wants them gone.

Epic win: the town of Biloxi was having a St. Patty's day parade. Throughout the entire parade members of anonymous marched with signs and received many beads. We even gave some to the scions because they missed the parade.

All in all i hope L.Ron likes that cake

Biloxi facts 2/10 turn out: 1 3/15 turn out: 22+

over 2200% increase

Biloxi is epic win

[edit] United States: Minneapolis, MN

Cold, but luckily 50+ degrees warmer than 2/10/08. Had ~125 show up. Started at 11 with about 30-40 people. Numbers grew swiftly, reaching over 100 by 12:30. Ended around 4. About mid-day there was a count of ~140 according to the leader-y type guy with the megaphone. We were watched the entire time by the same guy standing just inside the door of the Scientology center across the street. There was also a camera in a second floor window of the center. Cops loved us - honked for us numerous times. Same with a fire truck or two that passed, city buses, taxis and very many cars and pedestrians. Many non-anons became involved, read our signs, took our fliers and gave general signs of approval. A few from Operation Clambake saw us and will be joining us in April. Very successful day. The Pictures

[edit] United States: Memphis, TN

Attendance - 45 throughout the day, a good turnout despite the wind, HEAVY rain and cold. Highlights include a pregame call to Magoo (Memphis LOVES Magoo), lots of chants, a very polite visit from the cops (We also loves MPD) and seeing actual Scientologists at the Memphis Mission. Word to the wise -THEY ARE NOT CLOSED!

We also had a very moving reading of all of the names of the deaths related to Scientology by Lilly, followed by the calling out to the Church as to why they are dead, and one young man spoke for how we speak for those who can no longer speak.

Pictures to be updated here Midsouth Anon Flickr

Updates here - MidSouth Anon Blog

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[edit] United States: Clearwater, FL

Turnout: 200+

Just came back from the clearwater raid. epic win all around. scions rented about a dozen very large trucks and parked them on the side of the road to obstruct view. no arrests that we know of so far. one bullbaiter attempted to harass us, he was easily ignored. one anon had a "hate" sign and refused to remove it (he finally removed it after 15 of us screamed at him). support from the public was epic. many many honks(including honks from an ambulance!), and many flyers handed out. private investigators were aggressive at following and trying to identify exiting anons. multiple minivans tried to tail anons, but were quickly lost with a couple of very sharp, sudden u turns. the police loved us. cake was enjoyed. music was played. dancing occured. not one, but two pinatas were destroyed. a group photo will be posted asap.

there were minor instances with children at the event. one parent took their 4 year old son and explained to him that we were bank robbers. she was easily ignored.

some anons were served with a cease to desist order before arriving to the event. (mine was recieved after the protest) the injunctions had no effect on our protests whatsoever.

media coverage from fox 13, abc action news (abc 28), st pete times, tampa tribune, newschannel 8 (nbc 8), and a couple of semi-professional youtube users/freelance video reporters.

  • there's an ABC news report video streamable here but I capped it an encoded to mp4 because the streaming sucks and because people might want want it for source material: MP4 HERE.

[edit] United States: Orlando, FL

Turnout: 120-130

Start: 1:00pm

End: 5:00-6:00pm

Lots of honking and cheering. There was a camera man outside of the Scientology building videotaping us all while another was taking more specific photos of people. Police were accommodating but you could tell some were irritated by us all being there. Delicious xenu cake was served.

There were several people with cameras, so please try to get the pictures and videos out to the internet and post them here also.

Photos:

Videos:

[edit] United States: Boston, MA

Turnout: Roughly 200

Just returned from Boston Raid. We had police eating delicious cake (LIES! No police touched the delicious cake at ANY point!), sang happy birthday to L Ron on multiple occasions. Rick Rolled many times, got honks from trollies, Geek Squad, 18-wheelers, and countless cars. Lots of news coverage. Upon leaving, we drove by and honked, and we were pulled over, and told to wait while we were written a $50 citation for "Harsh/Abrasive Noise"

While waiting, one Scientologist with a camera took about 30 pictures of us pulled over, while laughing. He stopped laughing when we, and even a police officer got in his face and told him that if the pictures left his camera, he and the "church" would be sued for harassment. The police officer even called him a freak. Epic Win.

I was in the car that got pulled over. The scientologist with the camera was laughing, until we started laughing psychotically back at him and telling to keep laughing. He didn't know how to react, particularly after we called over the police officer who was on our side.

Stoop Kid's afraid to leave his stoop. Shoop Kid's afraid to shoop da woop.

Free Will Smith!!

A scieno walked through the crowd to get to the church, and as he walked through he was saying things like "free speech that requires masks? cowards!" A few mins later I saw him coming out of the center and as he walked back through the crowd saying the same shit. I walked behind him dancing. He stopped and said "are you threatening me" and I said "no, I want to dance". He called me a coward and walked away. I hope this was in keeping with expected anon behavior.

Epic IRL raid is EPIC. /r/ing pics of Rick Astley 'rolling the protest. The Day the Internet Went to Wendy's.

Second viewpoint: We saw you get pulled over and there were 4 Scientologist taking pics of you guys in the car. Couple of us starting booing when we noticed you were getting ticketed for honking. 200+ turnout. Massive amounts of cake. Stoop kid left the stoop to start taking pics near the Anons but he got run off. Fox news was there and we should be on the local news at 10pm. Several people interviewed and DVDs were distributed to Fox Boston. Epic win!!!

[edit] United States: Brunswick, ME

Turnout: 9

Police drove by occasionally, generally friendly. Turnout sucked because of the weather. Everyone was rickrolled many times. We had no bullhorn, because everyone in Maine is poor. We made up for it with kickass protest signs. We talked to the Brunswick Times Record and WGME 13. Nearly all the coordination websites are fucked over - go to our blog site to get moar info on how we're communicating now.

[edit] United States: Philadelphia, PA

Turnout: 175+

Police escort from site A to site B - awesome. We got fire trucks, ambulances, cabs, SEPTA buses, pretty much any mode of transit you can imagine honking. Lots of party horns, hats, noisemakers, etcetera. The chanting was epic, especially when it echoed off the buildings we were standing between. Police loved us, crowd was talking to us, a truck with a billboard drove by seven or eight times to honk. 5 foot hoagies, cake, and trombone solos abound, as well as an all-anon singalong version of bohemian rhapsody.

We also spoke with an ex-CoS who was happy to see us.

Epic. Win.

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[edit] United States: Buffalo, NY

Turnout: 60ish

Scientologists once again hid inside the building the entire time and did not really even acknowledge our presence. More people showed up this time. The weather was about 40 so much warmer than the Feb 10th protest. One highlight of the day was a man who lives in the area talked to us. We handed him fliers. He said he was going to ask the Scientologist about the material we handed him. After entering the building he was questioned about being "one of us". He asked about the material. A Scientologist asked to see it, crumbled it up, and gave him the Way to Happiness along with a catalog of the basics books. He returned, we gave him new fliers to read and we all enjoyed reading Scientology propaganda. A man later appeared to be filming us from the roof of the building. Everyone waved and sang happy birthday to L Ron. Cake, cosmic brownies, pizza, and string cheese were enjoyed by all.

Pictures will be linked to soon.

 

[edit] United States: Pittsburgh, PA

Turnout: 35-40.

Scientologists seemed to be talking to the cops for a while, but not much came of it as we were completely peaceful. Had a couple people come up and argue with us, one of them was pretty reasonable and we may have converted him to the freezone. The other was drunk. There were a lot of drunks, as the area around the Scientology building has a lot of bars. The drunk people were generally pretty supportive.

We sang "Happy Birthday" and ate cake, then dispersed around 4:30. Oh, and huge props to the guy with the speakers on his belt who danced around for at least half the protest.

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[edit] United States: New York City, NY

Turnout: 475-600

Anon was loud as hell. Got honks from Post-Office Truck. Police loved our protest chants, laughed at them. Scientology honcho jawed at one of the police men everytime a car horn was honked, telling him that they should be ticketed. Eventually the police man just walked away.

Some lawyer came out claiming to be one of us, telling us not to ask cars to honk because then people will get ticketed. I smell bullshit. (It a violation of noise code to honk your horn except in cases of imminent danger--but it's rarely enforced)

The Celebrity Center raid also went quite nicely with Anon gathered in front of the building as well as on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over 500 fliers were given out in less than 30 min.

There may have been more media there than last time, Feb 10th had no coverage in local media pretty much. Totally Peaceful, Totally Epic Win.

Lots of Scilons trailed us from one center to the next, trying to take up-close pictures. How obvious can they get?

Don't forget the delicious caek at the Celeb center, along with RickRoll, TayRoll, Bel Air, Happy Birthday, and, of course Still Alive.

[edit] United States: Washington, DC

Washington, DC Enturbulation Thread

DC Site Postgame Board

8:34 AM: I just saw one of the "handlers" (Scifag in tan jacket) from the 10th! He has two kids with him! One blonde hair girl with a white shirt with pink flowers on it and one brown hair boy with a red sweatshirt. Both are about seven or eight years of age.

Epic Flag Two: DC has yet another flag this time around. It is an unofficial flag for the Marcab Confederacy and it looks epic! Pictures can be found on the Flickr.

11:00 AM: The protest commences in DC. Arnie has arrived in his XenuMobile! Private investigator(s) have been spotted. The march is ESCORTED BY A POLICE! EPIC WIN!

11:30 AM: Scientologist or PI spotted on the balcony taking video footage from above! Otherwise, all is well.

11:50 AM: We have a live feed of the protest! (CLICK HERE) Also, people speak to the crowd about Scientology, including Arnie Lerma! No incidents so far!

12:15 PM: The internet feed has over 100 users watching online! Also, more pics uploaded on the Flickr :D

Update Regarding SciKids: The scientologist children left the area before the protest began so there was no issue with that, sorry for the late update.

12:30 PM: Anonymous sings Happy Birthday to L. Ron Hubbard and reveals the delicious cake! Pics on the Flickr! Also, the internet feed has surpassed 200 viewers!

1:10 PM: Anonymous reads the speech read 'round the world. A speech planned to be read at every protest around the world on March 15th.

1:30 PM: Live internet feed surpasses 300 simultaneous viewers as an ex-scientologist tells her tragic story! Also, rickrolling the church FTW :D

2:00 PM: The protest officially comes to a close. Some go on their way, but many stick around to socialize, eat delicious cake, and pass out fliers for a bit longer. Operation Successful. Somebody even donated $200 to the DC Anons!

Note: Videos will be uploaded later today!

Flickr 1

Flickr 2

  • Turnout: 190

[edit] United States: Atlanta, GA

Despite having some really freakish weather over the last 24 hours, quite a few Anonymous attended the raid, perhaps ~120 at peak, risking rain and potential tornado weather. Things started out in good fun, with organizers bringing supplies like water, soda, inflatable aliens, signs & posts, etc. Cake was had, and after the success of the Feb. 10th raid, everyone was ready for a relaxing day. Unfortunately the police force - which had been quite understanding and even friendly at the last event - stepped up their intimidation level.

Shortly after The Speech was read over bullhorn, the riot guard crossed the street in formation and arrested two Anonymous for noise violations. After that, the day took a turn for the worse, and the police - without warning to Anon or motorists - began pulling over and ticketing cars that honked or flashed lights in support, and at times pulled them over for even slowing down as they passed. Anonymous scrambled to create "Please Don't Honk!" signs and posted bearers at both ends of the street. Even so, many cars were ticketed throughout the course of the day. As the day wore on, the police became more demanding, suddenly deciding that the dust masks everyone was wearing were illegal 'unless you have allergies' and had to be removed. Citations were given for bandanas. Morale took a real hit. Throughout the entire event the police captain was in constant contact with representatives from the 'church' and their photographers-for-hire, who shot pictures of anyone and everyone they could.

Even with these strikes against us, it seemed that the overall coverage was even better than last time. Many many flyers and cards were handed out, and of the motorists who weren't directly supportive of our cause, many were genuinely interested and expressed surprise at the cult's tax-exempt status and presence in the Atlanta area. The tickets and unnecessary forcefulness of the police probably helped raise awareness as much as anything else.

Atlanta Anons intend to create a donation/PayPal account to help cover the cost to the ticketed motorists (with whom we attempted to speak in apology for their trouble) and detained /b/rothers.

[edit] Canada: Toronto, ON

www.anonymoustoronto.org

11:00 AM, ~50 Anons march from dundas square 1.5km north to Co$ under heavy police escort. Epic music and awesome flags contributed to win.

11:15 Dundas Brigade joins Anons at Co$ for a combined force of 200+. Heavy Police presence, approximately 30+ officers as compared with the dozen or so on Feb 10, Crowd Control horses as well. Protesters were restricted to the opposite side of the street, and a lane of traffic was blocked off to provide a buffer zone. Scienos put paper over their windows and hid inside, using windows on upper floors of buildings to tape us.

1:25 PM- A Sysco truck parks in front of the building to deliver a mysterious shipment. The truck left about 20 minutes later. We thought the boxes contained documents but we kept our distance due to police. Photographs and phonecalls later revealed the delivery to be a shippment of over 4000 eggs, as well as several boxes of oranges. I guess they buy their eggs annually?

Raid went strong through to 3pm, estimated attendance at ~250 peak. Unfortunately, there was no cake, just some donuts. No violence, no problems with police except that they refused to dance to "YMCA" with us.

All coverage here:

http://www.anonymoustoronto.org/index.php/Past_Raids#Operation_Party_Hard_-_March_15th_2008_Raid

[edit] Canada: Montreal, QC

~11:00 AM - Raid begins

1:00 PM Raid is at it's strongest point, about 50 Anons

3:30 PM Raid finishes with all anons leaving at once.

[edit] Canada: Ottawa, ON

Turnout: 50-60

Protests began at 11am after a small procession from University campus to 150 Rideau St where more joined.

Alot of fellow citizens honked horns in support, Scinos took photos of us from their windows, Local CO$ leader came out for a bit and talked with one of our own handing out flyers on the other side. Major amount of citizens educated. Boombox going for most of the protest, lots dancing. Lot's of foot traffic as well to hand out Flyers.

Anti-War protest (about 100-200 people 4 police escorts) walked by and cheered with us, Local camera crew filmed us from center of that Protest.( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wpzZS_Rc-0 for the video)

Police presence VERY minor, One cruiser at beginning of protest down the street, left after 20-30min Another showed up at one point for unspecified amount of time.

Troll showed up and attempted to disrupt (Tom Serson well known troll) But failed. We didn't realize who he was until after the fact.

Protests ended at 3pm with one last rickroll.

Photos here

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24709063@N02/sets/72157604123145424

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rogerfingas/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24767119@N08/sets/72157604128929630/

[edit] Canada: Kitchener, ON

10am to 11am: 10 to 12 of us met at the bell tower, and at 11am sharp we all marched up to scifag HQ.

11am to 3:30ish: 30 people at peak, give or take a straggler. Very energetic compared to February as the weather was much more favourable. People in general were very supportive, lots of honking, even from bus drivers. One scifag with a broken arm came out a couple times and was talking typical nonsense. Many lulz were had. No media attention as there were some engineering students pulling a bus past city hall. We did manage to get an interview with an elderly lady who had lost two children to the cult, she was very supportive and agreed to let us conduct a more in depth interview for Op: Reconnect.

pics:

http://s270.photobucket.com/albums/jj117/raeko-/March%2015th%202008%20Scientology%20Picket%20Kitchener/

http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii103/AnonFruit/

vids:

http://youtube.com/user/windsorfag

http://youtube.com/user/KitchenerIsOver9000 <- Interview will be uploaded there when post processing is finished.

[edit] Canada: Kingston, ON

[edit] United States: Louisville, KY

Turnout- 30-40

12 PM- Raid begins

[edit] United States: Indianapolis, IN

Turnout: 42 at highest Start: 11:00 AM End: Not sure, we left at around 2:00

No problems, lots of fliers handed out, several good discussions. Got honks from many cars, city buses, even a Coors Light truck. Plus, we got props from Epic Bus Girl.

If anonyone has pictures or videos, put links to them here.

[edit] United States: Cincinnati, OH

Turnout: 90-100, a little more than 2/10

Start: 2:00pm

End: 5:00pm

No problems. Typical scilon picture taking. Two scilons tried to follow protesters leaving. Two anons followed the followers and took over 9000+ pics of them. They backed off. Win.

Cincinnati has it's own homeless guy spokesman nao. He asked the org if they took food stamps.

Several OG members present, gave intel on church members. Org leader is HAWT, and at least one anon asked for her hand in marriage!

Sunday 8:59 am, link to slide show http://entertainment.webshots.com/slideshow/562795088kptRLX included Clam Baked Wall of Shame. Comment on pics with infp please, need to know description of shoving clam to add.

Org leader looked like a ferret. Leprechaun girl was cold.

  • Whoever said org leader looks like a ferret must be thinking of the wrong clam. The redhead (who was also kinda cute, red hair FTW!) was not the org leader. Org leader not pictured in album linked here.

Clams hid out on third floor snapping pics, or maybe signaling for help? NO cops to protect us, they hired cops to protect them from Rick Rollz. Next time will request Cops protect US as we leave and prevent Clams from info gathering. All in all, CINCY CLAMS FLUNK.

Also, one of the cops did come over to our side and sang rickroll with us. Lulz were had.

[edit] United States: Cleveland, OH

Turnout: 19

Start: 11:00am

End: 3:00pm

Lots of honking in support. A few jeers, but those were probably in disapproval of protestors in general rather than support of Scientology. Obvious OSA disguised as a city water technician wandered around us half the time. He'd only go to two buildings: the Co$'s building, and a church parked across the street that had obvious OSA surveillance. Police were very accommodating at first, but became dicks toward the end. They were called there by the Co$ to keep tabs on us. Several times they got out of their unmarked car and headed to the back of their building to relay information. I guess they must have been scolded by the Scilons to make us leave after they told them we weren't doing anything illegal.

[edit] United States: Columbus, OH

Turnout: 70-90

Start: 11:00am

We had a good turnout. People started showing up at around 10:00. An anonymous called the Columbus Dispatch and they had a reporter and photographer show up at Noon. One anon brought a boombox and we all listened and sang along to the songs of the internet. Another group brought 144 cupcakes, another a tent and another balloons and helium. There were also party hats. All in all epic win. There were cakes, including a wonderful Xenu shaped cake. At noon happy birthday was sung, cake was distributed and it was delicious and moist. There was light police presence, including our friend the detective from the 2/10 protests and 3 mounties. All in all epic win.

[edit] United States: Battle Creek, MI

Turnout: ~35

Start: 2:30pm

End: 5:45pm

We met up in a parking lot of a nearby McDonalds before heading to the church. One anon brought ~500$ worth of Scientology books that their library had thrown out and distributed them to the group. Amost immediately after the anons showed up, the cops appeared on the scene and made everyone remove their masks, despite someone showing them the law that said it was legal. They said we COULD cover our faces with the signs we were carrying, so we did.

A couple anons brought prepackaged cake while one anon parked their car in front of the protest and played music after the cops left. There was dancing and we sang Happy Birthday to LRH, during which a couple reporters for the Battle Creek Enquirer stopped by to interview a few anons and take pictures. Scilons set up a tripod in the window to film us and some guy wandered out to take notes and pictures. We just waved at them.

Then the cops showed up again saying they had complaints about the noise (Although we had support from the church next door to the org AND from the office behind us) and arrested an anon for punching eyeholes in the sign he was using to cover his face. We continued waving signs on the nearby intersection and got quite a few honks from passing cars and gave out some fliers and cake. The anon in jail was bailed out for ~100$ shortly after the protest ended. Note that the Battle Creek anons together pooled the 100 dollars in under 10 minutes to bail the anon who was jailed out. Stay tuned to reports about investigations on wrongful arrest.

Overall, despite the harassment from the cops, this protest was a WIN.

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[edit] Canada: Halifax, NS

Approximate numbers: 20 Cake was had, 2 large banners were held in the snow. Some minor filming of protesters, no report of interviews or tails. Not much traffic due to Church location, March Break, and snow.

[edit] United States: Albany, NY

Approximate numbers: 75 At least one scifag taking pictures. We partied hard for four hours and this time we didn't have a blizzard at the end. No issues from police even while mass jaywalking.

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[edit] United Kingdom: Birmingham

Attendance : 100+ < 11:00 : Some scilon taking pictures of random peoples exiting new street, hoping to catch anon

11:00 : ~50 anon at Ethel Street

11:15 : info on brum "ideal org" arrives; WIN!

11:30 : rickrolls

12:00 : ~120 anon protesting, plus pigeons (pigeon, cult, pigeon, cult)

~12:00 : CAEK!

13:00 : Operation Global Speech + minutes silence

14:00 : march to BullRing and chased away by ambulance

15:00 : anon drift off out of rain

16:00 : end, epic win all round

pics n vids; http://z9.invisionfree.com/Brumanon/index.php?showforum=6

Anon in Clearwater injunction came to brum protest, hes not from London, no intention to protest in Clearwater, didnt even know Jentsch before the injunction; Scilon epic fail

Bouncer on door told us he agreed with us; WIN!

Police were all happy and cool; even with 100+ anon, only 2-3 PCSO's/PC's there; >9000 leaflets and stickers handed out.

Brumanon add to this!!

[edit] United Kingdom: Manchester

11:00 AM: protest moved off from the designated starbucks and made its way to scilon HQ. only about 85 by this point Epic Flag Anon delivers with epic flag.

11:30 AM: Scifags try to film from windows shouts of "just because your behind a window dosent mean we cant see you" (pics to follow)we started playing the LULZ CD from some dudes beetbox. lulz ensued.

11:50 AM: cake was distributed amongst crows of now just over 200. the /b/ mobie makes a drive by and delivers boogaloo xenu for anons. sporatic dancing occurs.

12:15 PM: cake eaten and all is well, crowd and police both appear to like us and we have support from over 9000 honkings.

1:00 PM: We all sing Happy B-day ron after reading out a speach. had small party, more cake appeared and music (party hard) happened.

~3:00 PM: people started leaving epic win had been achived.

photos and video to follow.

Quotes:

- *after balloon pops* "That was not a bomb!" - Megaphone guy

- "Everyone clear up all rubbish related to the protest!" - Megaphone guy - "But we can't fit the entire church into a bin!" - Anonymous

ANON WRITE SOMETHING ABOUT THE BUS DRIVER:

A God among meer normal folk, shall forever be remembered as epic bus dude... he came.. he stopped... he took a keen interest... he seizure danced....then he honked. In all he passed us 3 times. THE MOST AWSOME BUS ROUTE EVER!!!!!!

ANON Cameraman: Someone (can it be hugz tiem?) managed to tag one of the security guards with one of the many stickers that were floating around, I saw but alas did not film a Scifag reach out from the door to remove it from his back. Must have been there for hours!! Lots of footage to go on youtube soon...

this protest was mr. pink approved as shown on some random footage

Epic Signs:

- "Scientology is gay! (As in rubbish.) Tom Cruise is gay! (As in happy)" these protesters shouted out "Scientology is homophobic!" and got many lulz. - "TOM CRUISE HAETS MUDKIPS!" - "YOU LOST THE GAME!" And true to form we did. Lulz were had.

[edit] United Kingdom: Plymouth

  • Turnout Plymouth: 40-50 people.

10:30AM - 6:00PM

It was very wet.

We split into three groups at one point, heading into the very densley packed town centre to follow both the scientology carts who were giving out propaganda and stress tests. We met them with our leaflets and well made signs.

They tried several tactics including baiting us out to nowhere to keep up busy with a decoy and taunting us to stay with them.

They had hired a security guard who we can happily say had very little to do that day. The anon outside the Org spent the day handing out flyers as did the anon picketing the carts through town. Eventually all three groups met back at the org until the protest ended at 6pm.

We had two ex-Plymouth staff members with us as well as many people from around the South West region and despite the weather we had a great time. The public was very receptive.

Scilons took many videos and photographs and hopefully the news team that interviews the ex-staff members will run a story on us.

There were no police this time. The worst we had was some Big Issue sellers saying that Scientology was good, and some old people who lived next door saying we were doing no good.

Flickr photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24708249@N07/sets/72157604122866516/

[edit] United Kingdom: London

Reports

Londonlulz PostGame | OCMB QVS report and TCR report | "The Cake Is Real" London coverage | Tanya's Photoblog

Photos

1 2 3 4 5 6 (Anon /r/s Rule 34 on Xenu)

Turnout

Queen Victoria Street: 400-500 people at one point, overall about 600 people.

Tottenham Court Road: 600-700 (approx. 850 by one count)

Total: Between 800 and 1200 (including Anons only present at one location)

Events

Queen Victoria Street (Church of Scientology)

11.00 AM - 1.30 PM

  • Anons began streaming through Blackfriars Station from 10 AM. Numbers hit 300 by 11.30, for this is SPARTA!!!!!1. Anons continued to arrive, rough estimates to about the 500s by 12.30.
  • Police were at Blackfriars informing Anon of the rules of the game. They had us behind barriers this time, so no Mounties (although some came by around 12.00ish). Offers of cake were mostly declined.
  • Much music, much chanting. White Boiler Suit Anon set up a rig to connect the Megaphone Anons present, so Rickrolling was several times louder than Feb 10. Global Speech given at about 12.
  • 15m Longcat banner was long and hung over the balcony for some time. Banners and signs galore including "NO SCIENTOLOGY PLEASE, WE'RE BRITISH" "Expect Us" "Rule #34 on Xenu" and (insert moar examples here kthx)
  • Delicious delicious cake, ranging from heaps of cheap supermarket cakes to muffins to chocolate cakes of LOL. Winners include Mudkip and Weighted Companion Cube cake.
  • Numerous Scilons videoing, photographing and watching from windows and across the street. Ceiling/Roof Scilon was watching us enturbulate. Window lady was seen and waved at, another man opened the window and Anon was pleased. Chants were yelled at to people entering the church: 'IT'S A TRAP' and 'WE HAVE CAKE, THEY HAVE LIES'. Anon stopped many from entering.
  • Around 1-1.30, Anons streamed off to the TCR location, main body had a police escort. Some stayed behind to clean up the rubbish and mess from much Party Hard-ness. Delicious chocolate cake was offered to lingering officers but politely declined (one officer added that Scilons were still filming from windows). Sad cake Anon was sad. :'(

Tottenham Court Road (Scientology and Dianetics Centre)

2 PM - 6 PM (ended 5 PMish due to rain + collection of barriers by city council)

scilons spent the whole time watching us protest them & handing out dianetics nonsense leaflet (i have one, it's just standard dianetics pasta).

(Need time of first lot arriving as I didn't take a time of arrival) Around 20 anons arrived first, which a table being set up and cake being placed on it! Owner of table and man dressed in lab coat started the chants with just 20 or so people there, demanding for red tie man! In around 30 minutes most anon had moved to the new location with roughly 800 anon fully there, however more anon kept coming! The protest spread along at least 50m-100m of pavement. Anon were not allowed to go onto the other side of the road. Anon were very successful as we managed to get people to rip up the silicon copypasta, great success, however police got angry at these people and they were removed/ told to move on. Anon also managed to get the Co$ in trouble as Co$ were giving out leaflets up the road and were not allowed to, anon told police, and these Co$ were told off and removed! After many chants of "This is a chicken [KFC]! This is a cult!" Anonymous delivered and a large bucket of chicken was pass around. Interviews were given to people with pro cameras claiming to be neutral people for YouTube. Lots of tourists taking photos.

Summary

Peaceful Anon throughout (please mention any exceptions here, there may have been one or two disturbances from possible non-Anon infiltrators)
Co$ rickrolled
CAKE WAS NOT A LIE
Leaflet distribution levels over 9000
Classified as WINRAR

LONDON ANONS EXPAND HERE AND CLEAN (anon partly expanded)

[edit] United Kingdom: Edinburgh

[EdinburghLulz.com PostGame] [Forums PostGame Reports] [Vid of Princes Street Venture]

Turnout

South Bridge Street: 10-15 people.

Hunter Square: 120-150

Total: Between 130 and 160 people.

Events

South Bridge Street (Hubbard Academy of Personal Independence)

  • StormTrooper guy attempts to give the Scientologists some flowers, which are refused.
  • A dispatch along Princes street encounters a stress test set-up which is IMMEDIATELY deconstructed and routed back to base.
  • A raffle is held and an L. Ron Hubbard cake and copy of V for Vendetta are given away.

Highlights

-The general friendliness of Anonymous. Good banter, and nobody at all causing any needless hassle (I think this may be a rarity when you look at protests in general).

-When an ex-Scientologist bus driver came to talk to us.

-The Police were great. Everyone in charge of the protest had a smile on their face and were genuinely friendly. The guy that was on the door of the Hubbard Academy was particularly pleasant.

-Some of the banter with members of the public - really friendly people stopping to find out what it was all about - made you feel like you were really raising awareness and doing something worthwhile!

-The stickers were tremendous. They had all the information people would need, with a link to xenu.net, and we found it impossible to run out!

-Hearing about the raid on the 'stress testers' on Princes St (and now, seeing the pictures of them packing up, ready to flee. Pure quality!).

-Hearing a fellow Anon's awesome story of how he and a friend went for personality tests in the Hubbard Academy, and ended up plastering the whole place with Anonymous stickers. Absolutely brilliant, brave and very funny - I salute you, sir.

Lowlights

- That GODDAMN PUDDLE! Though I suppose it was quite funny when cyclists went right into it...

-Seriously guys, what was that Illuminati thing all about? COME ON, we're meant to be showing the general public that we're a rational bunch (i.e. the opposite of Scientologists), not a bunch of conspiracy nuts who have posters like the one today which, to all intents and purposes, said 'THE SYMBOL FOR SCIENTOLOGY HAS A FEW OF THE SAME ANGLES AS SOME OTHER SYMBOLS FOR OTHER ORGANISATIONS LIKE THE ILLUMINATI, OMG HAX!!!!!!1111111oneoneone!!!!111'. A reference to David Icke!? The guy who thinks Lizardmen control the world's governments?! The saddest fact of all was that the person who made the poster (less of a poster, more of a mini-pyramid) had obviously spent considerable time and effort on it.

-Being unable to fit the word 'Scientology' on a sign.

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[edit] Germany: Düsseldorf

  • Around 50 People present
  • lulz were had
  • Great feedback from passing people, hundrets of honking cars
  • Nice police officers forbidding Co$ taking pictures of Anonymous

[edit] Germany: Frankfurt

  • Turnout: ~18 People.
  • Delicious Cake, and singing.
  • Handing out of fliers, until Scientology complained about them not having an imprint, which is apparently illegal here.

[edit] Germany: Berlin

  • 50 Anons, an Ex-Scientology member and the sect expert Ursula Caberta attended
  • cake, music, honking cars and last but not least: Lulz
  • peaceful protest with nice and friendly policemen
  • residents came and gave hot coffee and tea for everyone (thanks to them)
  • Scifags made pictures as usual

[edit] Germany: Munich

  • ~30 Anons and one Ex Scientologist.
  • Support from shopowners around. A mobile phone shop sponsored a bottle of sparkling wine.
  • Delicious cake, musik, dancing and OVER 9000 honking cars
  • A wikinews reporter which brought us a package of "nigro" cookies.
  • 2 workers from the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz) were watching us.
  • Without beeing asked, a passer-by donated 20 bucks (31,3250$) to us. It will be used for the teh next protest.
  • Various Scifags were watching and photographing us
  • To put it in a nutshell: it was a great protest. We got a lot of positive feedback from the people. The policeman were very nice and told us their opinion of the cult -inofficial- (I don´t think i´ve to explain it..). The statement "Thank you, but I don´t need a flyer to know that Scientology is dangerous and stupid" was often heard.

[edit] France: Paris

  • 20 Anons and supporting people gathered near the Celebrity Center.
  • Police was here to prevent "trouble" and we couldn't pass in the CC street, so we sang happy birthday from far away. We couldn't stay very long, either. Police and journalists were friendly.
  • 9 anons then went to the second Scientology center on the other side of Paris; the street was not blocked (but a police van was not far). We stayed in front of their building 30 minutes with music. Scilons took photos from behind their windows all the time.
  • Then 2 friendly city police/security people came to tell us the Scientologist called and felt annoyed, and asked us to leave now, which we did

[edit] Netherlands: Amsterdam

  • ~120 Anons, ex-members, other allies and Karin Spaink (google that name) gathered at Beursplein.
  • Police was very nice as were the traffic controllers ("I don't need your flyer to know Scientology sucks").
  • Spacecake was a lie, it was just normal cake, everyone refused to accept that though.
  • About e120,- was donated and spent on moar flyers and cake on location.
  • Scifags organized a Narconon demonstration in front of their own building so we had to move to Beursplein. Moar tourists for us.
  • Scifags called in a bomb threat causing a couple of Anons at the meeting place to be arrested.
  • Scifags took over 9000 pictures and tried to persuade us to stop and "use our energy for something fun and useful". One scifag dressed as a cop. Teenaged scilettes across the street handing out anti-drug flyers (not Narconon, just "Scientology") and denying all ties to the cult... in sci-speak.
  • Walked by the org on our way back to tell them we're never gonna give them up.

[edit] Norway:Oslo

  • Estimates range from 30 to 70 Anons, waiting for a photo/video review. Weather was perfect. Party lasted from about 2 PM to 6 PM.
  • Andreas from Xenu.net handed out flyers with Anon. There was a news still photographer.
  • Police are pretty cool guys eh, only drove past as they usually do on a busy Saturday in the city and doesn't afraid of Anonymous starting any bullshit.
  • Because of digging and possibility of confrontations with CoS we couldn't be across the street from CoS building.
  • Cake was a total utter lie. There was also no thethanade. Only freebies were flyers and a multimeter-administered stress test. A Marcab showed saying he had pizza for us. The pizza was a lie too, but the box had extra flyers and noise makers - and folded out into a sign. There were also balloons of various types - not enough to make anyone airborne.
  • Dress code (white shirt, black tie) was followed by some. 1 EFG, though he wasn't wearing his mask over his face, 1 gundam, 1 gasmask-kun, 1 guy in a bad-ass SP jacket and several cameras - including a steady cam. Leaflets handed out in three layers on both sides of Oslo's busiest street. Some ran out quickly, but were resupplied by those who had brought MOAR flyers.
  • People who stopped and talked were a mix of people who had never heard of Scientology, and people who had personal experiences or knew about their abuses in other ways. Of those who didn't stop, many still uttered encouragement. We also had some trolling, that is not people dressed as trolls, but people who said "you make us want to go join CoS".
  • Some party people walked past including a guy with a gigantic white afro. They lold with us for a minute or two, and then continued on their way.
  • No confrontations with scilons. On 2/10 there were two tailing us and we talked to them and they were nice - not using Hubbard tech. This time around we didn't talk to any who said they were scientologists. We saw a couple of people walking past and looking at us with a slightly pained expression and one guy who took a photo from afar though that last one might just be photographing the Parliament building.
  • Multiple rickrolls mostly from Rick Astley himself, with some anons singing along. A street musician who sat right next to the protest joined in. We paid him and moved the megaphone up the street a bit to not interfere with his business - but he was still close enough to be intermingled. Birthday song was sung. 1812 Overture outside the Parliament was the last "event" of the day.

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[edit] Australia: Perth

Had a bagpiper for the first hour who played Amazing Grace during the minute silence outside COS, followed by happy birthday. TWO puppets (L Ron carrying bags of money and Xenu) which attracted plenty of attention, rickrolled scientology, and someone brought cake. Everyone was very well behaved and excellent atmosphere, brown hat man even shook the hands of some scientologists! EPIC protest! Police were very helpful. 2-3 scifags spotted with cameras/vid cams but were quickly outed by the group. Thousands of fliers went out and many responses "I already have several fliers" and "I already know they suck". Ceiling blimp filmed from the sky.

NOTE: Scientologist (wasn't at the protest - same guy seen at reception in solo Perth birthday raid video on youtube 14/3) was seen 30 mins after group had disbanded, filming people and the entire route the protest took, assuming he was trying to spot those that were still in the city without masks - take change of clothes if you plan to hang around!@#$

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[edit] Australia: Adelaide

People started arriving about 1:30pm, flowers were handed out, bottled water was sold and pre-ordered maskes were distributed. One well known Scieontologist was in attendance taking photos as they always do and followed us on our protest route.

One Anon was photographed before it even started. Near Victoria Square, waiting at traffic lights, Anon decided to put his mask on, so he took off his sunglasses, got his mask out and as he was putting it on, glanced accross the road. Scilon was taking their camera back down. Truly unlucky.

March commenced at 2:20pm after a brief speech regarding the rules of the protest and we headed on a pre-defined route with no interruptions from Scientology.

Upon arriving at Scientology HQ 4 security guards were spotted outside the building and various reporters and Scientologists milled around and filmed us from within the building as they did February 10th. (260 in attendance outside Co$)

Anonymous sang L Ron happy birthday, free candy and delicious cake was distributed by anonymous with one small problem due to a small bunch of idiots who tried to cause trouble and were immediately reported to police who prevented them from circling around behind the Scientology building. Signatures were also collected in regards to Scientologys tax exempt status with over 180 collected.

Epic victory. Adelaide makes the news again

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[edit] Australia: Melbourne

Any MelbAnons please edit

Photos of Melbourne raid here http://flickr.com/photos/24689916@N05/

Image upload Here

[edit] Australia: Sydney

SydneySydneyRaid started off rather lethargically, with anons and non-anons alike enjoying a light concert of fantastic songs at Hyde Park for an hour.

When the protest and march started we were met with both curious and supporting ausfags. No dilemmas yet.

Upon arrival at the Sydney Church of Scientology, we noticed that two large trucks were illegally parked in front of the church at a "NO PARKING" zone (link), barring it's view (link). The church upper floors (of which vision was not blocked by the trucks) appeared completely empty. We notified police and they said; QUOTE "...you cannot remove the trucks when they're parked in a no parking zone" -- WTF?!?! Apparantly, they were trying to deter Anonymous and make it seem as if we were shouting at nothing. This was to no avail as Anon declared epic win by the end of the day .

Other issues include the scifag who lurked around the protest taking flyers off people and disposing of them or putting them in his pocket. Here is the dood here. He later walked into the church and handed the flyers over to the staff, then disappeared into the church. Also, a wild lady appeared and started dancing in front of the church. Apparantly she was smoking a joint before that dance.

Anonymous also moved around the city to Town Hall and Pitt Street Mall where they effectively conveyed their message. What is interesting, is that the two large trucks in front of the church (explained above) drove off away from the church when Anonymous moved to Town Hall thinking that Anonymous had left, but came back as soon as Anonymous started marching back to the Church of Scientology from Town Hall. This shows that the CoS had some sort of recon' operation going on. They were also observed using SMS and cell-phone calls.

All in all, by 4:00pm our protest permit dictated the end to this epic win, and we had to disperse, not before some dancing, priest buttrape, stripping and a hearty final countdown.

  • Turnout 150 - 200+
  • Image Uploads (Gasmasks, business suits and the unofficial anon flag)

[edit] Australia: Canberra

We had 9 people show up. I was stoked! We had fliers and plenty of signs. I noticed a lot of possible Scifags hanging around next to the building. It was extremely hot out there, but we survived! Here is one of our anons doing the Global Speech. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iz3dYeRt7o

Also pics. http://www.flickr.com/photos/24771347@N08/

[edit] Australia: Brisbane

Good protest, handed out lots of fliers, minor police presence. A drunk guy in a green suit turned up towards the end and was seen being talked to by police afterwards.

  • Turnout: ~100
  • Photo Archives:

anonpartyhard flickr

Brisanon15.3 flickr

bris_eightbit flickr

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[edit] New Zealand: Auckland

Overall Turnout: 30-50

  • About 30 Anon met on Queen st Intersection by Britomart. With signs and flyers, much was handed out.
  • One anon girl was spat in the face by Scilon. Lifted her mask up and everything.
  • St Patrick's Day Parade was well timed and somewhat entertaining.
  • Took train as a group to Pamure to protest outside the Org, were met with more anon.
  • Two Scilons hung outside the org for the whole time, one had camera and filmed us for most of the time, we responded likewise
  • Protests ensued with chants and honks from several passing cars. Notable chants include "Pamure Hates You" and "Stop Wasting Police Time"
  • Police were called, Police Arrived, and discussed at length with scilons, including, reportedly, Mike Ferris (leader of Scientology in NZ). Police did nothing.
  • More police still arrived, still did nothing, one even waved to us as we chanted "Stop Wasting Police Time"
  • Left around 3pm without any contact with Police
  • Scilon spies were possibly on the trains, but unconfirmed.
  • Overall 30-50 attendees, High morale and cake and biscuits for all. Much dancing and chanting ensued.

Video: [2] Organizational website: [3] Enturbulation thread: [4]

Christchurch

  • Turnout: 6-7

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