Little Brother Scrapbook
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Marcus kept various mementos in a scrapbook documenting his experiences resisting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Little Brother. The scrapbook included photos of the Bay Bridge that was bombed, Marcus' cell phone that got him imprisoned for refusing to unlock it, the DHS logo to represent who he was fighting, materials about the anonymous social network XNet that helped coordinate resistance, and artifacts of his activism like a flyer and speech transcript. Barbara's news article telling his story was also included.
Little Brother Scrapbook
- 1. LITTLE BROTHER SCRAPBOOK BY KYLA DUNCAN
- 2. MARCUS YALLOW Nicknames: w1n5t0n, M1k3y Lives in San Francisco with his parents Goes to C辿sar Ch叩vez High Seventeen years old
- 3. THE BAY BRIDGE This is the bridge that was blown up in the beginning of Little Brother. Marcus would keep this photo to remember how times used to be before the terrorist attack.
- 4. MARCUS CELL PHONE Marcus would keep his phone as a memento to remind him of his time in prison and how it all started because he refused to unlock it when the DHS demanded him to.
- 5. The logo of the DHS. A simple thing to keep. I think that Marcus would keep a copy of this particular logo to show who he was fighting against and how absurd the idea is, having to fight the DHS; who was supposed to protect them.
- 6. XNET The Xnet was a huge part of how the fight began. It connected all of those fighting against the gov't and much of what occurred would not be possible without its existence.
- 7. FASTRAK The govt was tracking people in one way by using the FasTrak. I think it was the start of people getting annoyed, to say the least, with the gov't.
- 8. MARCUS FIRST BLOG ON XNET THIS IS WHERE HIS 'FAME ON XNET STARTED, THIS WAS HIS FIRST BIG MOVE ON THE DHS. The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail. Maybe all the automatic screening is supposed to catch a terrorists. Maybe it will catch a terrorist sooner or later. The problem is that it catches _us_ The more people it catches, the more brittle it gets. If it catches too many people, it dies. Get the idea? (Doctorow, 127, 2008)
- 9. DON'T TRUST ANYONE OVER 25 A poster from the event at Dolores Park. 'Don't trust anyone over 25 was the motto. The police gassed everyone when they didn't disperse and later said that the group had attacked them.
- 10. MARCUS SPEECH TO THE WORLD OR, THE REPORTERS WHO WANTED INFO > Good evening and thank you all for coming. My name is M1k3y and I'm not the leader of anything. All around you are Xnetters who have as much to say about why we're here as I do. I use the Xnet because I believe in freedom and the Constitution of the United States of America. I use Xnet because the DHS has turned my city into a police-state where we're all suspected terrorists. I use Xnet because I think you can't defend freedom by tearing up the Bill of Rights. I learned about the Constitution in a California school and I was raised to love my country for its freedom. If I have a philosophy, it is this: > Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. > I didn't write that, but I believe it. The DHS does not govern with my consent. > Thank you (Doctorow, 235)
- 11. Barbaras article. Marcus would keep a copy of Barbara's article because it was, essentially, his story.