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Anonymous Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Promotes Prison Abolition From Behind Bars

Kit O'Connell, Truthout | Report

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May 31, 2015

Jeremy Hammond has spent two birthdays in captivity now, but his friends have promised to celebrate each one. As with many political prisoners, his supporters send him cards, but they've also invented a new tradition: turning his birthday party into political protest against his enemies.

Hammond was sentenced to a decade's imprisonment in November 2013 for his part in the hack of Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor, an Austin, Texas-based private intelligence agency. As part of LulzSec, an infamous collective from the Anonymous movement, Hammond liberated 5 million emails and the credit card numbers of Stratfor's clients, which included government and military officials. The emails became part of a searchable archive on Wikileaks called the Global Intelligence files, while Anonymous used some of the credit card numbers to charge donations to charity.

An Inspiring Correspondence

Activist Azzurra Crispino is one of many people who have struck up a prison correspondence with Hammond, inspired by his support of the Occupy movement. After police removed Occupy Austin from the steps of City Hall, she began writing some of the thousands who'd been arrested during the wave of camp "evictions" in early 2012.

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