[pp.int.general] Activities against Torpedo Amendments

[Carlos Ayala]

I resend this mail to you as I got no answer two weeks ago. This is an important issue -Torpedo Amendments-, and not having an answer from pirate parties neither about participating nor having their own agenda regarding this issue has PIRATA unaware about what is PPI going to do.

So we in PIRATA would want -also our partners within this activity want- each pirate party to know whether you're willing to participate -in order to report the organization of this activity (e.g., to organize mailing to MEPs)-; please reply to this mail. Regards

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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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