Operation Payback/ Avenge Assange

I've been following closely the news articles being released about "the hacker organization Anonymous" and it's efforts to attack the enimies of Piracy and Freedom, but I don't understand why more isn't happening.  DDoS attacks are cool and all, but why aren't the scary hackers hacking?  Why can't every Channer have information that would actually cripple these banks?  Right now we are chilling in our basement, using only a few of the tools available to fight with.  Can't more be done?  Assange is under house arrest now, awaiting deliberation as to whether or not he will be extradited to Sweden.  What happens if Assange dissappears?  If Wikileaks is no longer able to fight, what then?  Who will lead the fight against secrecy and corruption?  And I guess my most important question would have to be this:  What can I do to help?  What can I do that would help change the world?

start by building a chan that's hidden behind tor, so anon can
speak his mind without THEM THEM THEM THEM listening. tor
services can't be physically located and a bonus would be that
the extra hurdle of installing tor might filter out some of the
lesser enjoyable elements of a normal chan.

this would be real action with a definite consequence, taking
down mastercard.com will only get you arrested