[pp.int.general] Rv: [rrpp] La versión en ingles de la propuesta de campaña anti enmiendas torpedo

[Carlos Ayala]

Here I forward a campaign started by Informatica Verde (Green Informatics) against the Torpedo Amendments; the aim is to get PPI involved in such campaign to avoid Torpedo Amendments to be finally passed.

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De: Angel Vazquez Hernandez <coordinador.si at partidopirata.es>
Enviado: miércoles, 13 de agosto, 2008 14:14:59



Campaign against the Torpedo Ammendments


From: Rafa Font (Informática Verde)
Sent to:
- Angel Vazquez (PIRATA)
- José Lancho (Spanish Observatory on Neutrality)
- Roberto Santos (HispaLinux)

- Víctor Domingo (Asociación de Internautas)
- Alberto Barrionuevo (FFII)

It's August 1st and there is no movement on the Torpedo Ammendments. Holidays make their way, and nobody is moving.

Therefore Informática Verde would like to propose an action campaign focused on stopping the Torpedo Ammendments at the EP next september.

It is a one-to-one campaign, a digital lobby, to carry out from now until the vote.

We think that each organization should contribute with at least 2 persons committed: one for the coordination team (to study the ammendments, EP procedure, and then help activists solving doubts) and one other for international networking within our organizations.

On our side, Jorge will be in charge of contacting the European Young Greens, to add them to the campaign, and to ask them to get in contact with Internet users association in their countries. So far, we have contact with Scotland and Malta. I will be part of the coordination team.

Please spread the word in your organizations, give us your feedback, if you think this campaign is appropiate and if you can join it.

We propose also a strategy, how to get people to join, a time frame, and contact priorities in the EP, and some ideas on how to reach the media.


INTRODUCTION

Facing the vote in the EP on the Torpedo Ammendments, we put forward this lobbying campaign to the MEPs, to achieve that their vote is against ammendments H1, H2, H3, K1 and K2.

We propose a one-to-one strategy.
In this way we avoid that the massive emailing is intercepted by the anti-spam filters of the EP.
This strategy also allows for a greater collaboration of the internet users, that are not limited to sending an email.
There are several replies from some MEPs on the first campaign, so we can suppose there will be MEPs who will tend to establish a conversation with our lobbyists.

At the same time, we can collect signatures for those who don't want to be very involved, and this signatures will be sent to the MEPs one week before the vote.

Participants

We propose that Informática Verde collaborates with our closest organizations: HispaLinux, Observatorio de Neutralidad, Partido Pirata, Asociación de Internautas, FFII. The campaign is open to any other organization who wants to join it.

The campaign could be escalable to a Europe-wide level. We would need up to 785 activists, and in many cases it is better to talk with the MEPs in their own language. Through FYEG (Federation of Young European Greens), Informática Verde will try to get support in other European countries, asking the green youth to contact the digital rights associations in their countries.

"Organizing" organizations should commit at least one person to the coordination team. Organizations that cannot commit anyone may appear as "supporting" organizations.

All infraestructure needed is a wiki, Informática Verde proposes to use our own.

Campaign Strategy

We would contact every MEP, the 785 of them. Each activist would be in charge of contacting one of them

Through the wiki, containing a list of MEPS, each activist will auto-asign an MEP. If the activists has a weblog, he can publish in it whatever is happening in his/her communication with the MEP. We can suppose that a stable communication will be hold during 2 months, so the activist could give its name to be remembered.

The MEP list will contain all MEPs sorted by country, with their political group, contact data (phone and email), and tracking data (if he has answered or not, his position, if his position has been made public...)
Also an estimation of the result of the vote will be there.

The activist role would be to give the MEP the explanation of the ammendments, the critics we are making of them, to convince him to vote against them, and to ask him for a public statement if he's against. Wiki would be updated with the evolution of this conversations.

Explanations on the ammendments and arguments to use to convince the MEPs would be available in the wiki. Furthermore, there will be information on how the EP, the parliamentary groups, and MEPs offices work. This information will be provided in Spanish, and also into the languages that the participants could translate.

There will be a team consisting on a member of each organization that will answer the doubts of the activists for when they try to communicate with the MEPs and put arguments forward.

We will address the Spanish MEPs in Spanish, the rest in English.

The campaign will be extended to all european countries to be more effective in the communication with the MEPs

Contact priorities

There are several MEPs with more influence, more interesting to talk to than others.

1- Syed Kamall & Malcom Harbour - They proposed the ammendments. If we can make them reject them, this will be a clear message for the rest of the MEPs
2- Parliamentary group leaders (for the 6 groups)
3- Members of the Committees that have studied these ammendments: LIBE, IMCO, and ITRE
4- National delegations leaders
5- All the rest MEPs


Time frame

Most probably the debate will be held the first week of September, in the first plenary session of the EP after holidays. The vote will be held the last week of september, in the second session of the EP

August 1st-24th: Campaign should start inmediately, although in August all MEPs should be on holidays. First phase is therefore for organising and get activists
August 25th-31st: Last week of August there is parliamentary work, this is the time for the first offensive.
September 1st-4th: Plenary session of the EP in Strasboug, debate.
September 5th-21st: Reinforcement of the campaign
September 22nd-25th: Vote

Media

There are several options to reach the mass media:

- Start of Campaign, press conference in Madrid by all organizations involved
- Press release the day before the debate
- Anounce of every MEP commitment against the ammendments
- Press release the day before the vote


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