Over the past decade, dissidents across the globe have appropriated the visage of Guy Fawkes, the infamous insurgent who tried to blow up the British Parliament in 1605, warping the once-reviled ...

Guy Fawkes masks, immortalized in the movie "V for Vendetta," have become a global symbol of protest and anonymity through the Occupy Wall Street movement and the Arab Spring. Right now people are ...

Just days after the Paris terrorist attacks on November 13, the iconic mask of Guy Fawkes appeared – again – in two videos released in French by the hacktivist techno-social collective Anonymous.

Guy Fawkes-inspired mask is protest symbol even 400 years after his death. — -- Remember, remember the Fifth of November. Even 400 years after his death, British folk hero Guy Fawkes has ...

The annual march takes place on Bonfire Night, and the mask is styled after Guy Fawkes, one of the ringleaders of the Gunpowder Plot. open image in gallery 
 Effigies of Guy Fawkes have been ...

of the British holiday Guy Fawkes Night, celebrated every Nov. 5. There are fireworks (or maybe just fires?), and kids run in the streets hitting up people for money. And then there’s that mask.

The marchers walked through central London. — -- Thousands of protesters, donning Guy Fawkes masks walked through the streets of central London on Thursday evening, throwing fireworks and ...

The Occupy Movement, born out of the Zuccotti Park-based Occupy Wall Street, adopted the mask in 2011. On Guy Fawkes Day that year, a Facebook invitation urged "all OCCUPY protesters of the world ...