[pp.int.general] Meanwhile…ACTA.

[Justus Römeth]

Moin dear Pirates!

So, as far as I know the pirate parties from the UK, Luxembourg, Sweden,
the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Austria and Germany have
thrown their weight in with the local ACTA protests (and the pirates in
Finland are planning to.) Am I missing anyone (if so, no offense!)? What
about PP Spain and Catalunya? We have hardly any information about the
protests in Spain (just a list of the ones Anonymous is planning tomorrow.
I think you guys could have a great function in bridging the protests to
the rest of Europe.

The protests in Poland, Slovenia and Bulgaria have already send their
governments running, I can't wait for tomorrow and then the 11th to be
honest. It seems that ACTA might make the use of VLC illegal, btw (as it
sort of skips the regional codes on DVDs).

I think the next step, since we are now in almost every country in the EU,
would be to also put the protest further. We should try to get Canadians,
Australians and New Zealanders to put pressure on their governments, too.
The easiest way to get them going would be through the English-speaking
blogosphere, so we should start asking tech blogs, music blogs, movie blogs
and hobby blogs to put banners advertising for the protests that are likely
to happen on the 11th, with maybe some events in AUS, NZ and CA also added
to the map and wiki.

There have been some Americans asking us how they can support us. I think
it is very unlikely that the US administration will change their stance on
ACTA, so the most logical step to me would be to try to get protests (they
don't need to be big actually) in front of things associated with Europe in
American cities. I am thinking of consulates, embassies and cultural
centers here, but maybe even company headquarters/offices of European
companies could be a starting point. The same may be an option for African
and South American countries if they fell like joining (but I guess the
whole thing is less of an issue over there).

Again, we have to give it up to the Polish. I would have never dreamt of
them being the avant garde of a progressive political youth movement in
Europe, but here we are. So kudos. I have seen quite a few Polish saying
that they think a Pirate Party is what the country needs, so maybe that can
breath life into the unfortunate sorry state the Polish PP has been as of
late.

In light of the horrible things happening in Syria protesting and prevent
things like SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, EPP, TPPA or INDECT, to fight for our
freedom. As soon as we let things like this slip the moral wrongness of
those problems in countries like Iran, Syria or China becomes less obvious,
to everybody involved.

Kind regards

Justus

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Josep Sànchez <papapep at gmx.com> wrote:

> On 31/01/12 19:44, Pirat at LennStar.de wrote:
>
>> Someone interested in translation of
>> http://www.edri.org/edrigram/**number10.1/whats-wrong-with-**ACTA<http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number10.1/whats-wrong-with-ACTA>
>> ?
>>
>> If yes it would be nice if this person could make 5 pads with the text
>> and I will move it to the translation task force.
>>
>> I will make a german translation anyway, but no time today.
>>
>
> I've created the pad
>
> http://piratepad.net/wwwacta-1
>
> I'll create in a while the other four (just copy-pasting gives a nasty
> text) and they will have the same name as this one with the finishing
> number increasing until 5 as the original documents:
>
> http://piratepad.net/wwwacta-2
> http://piratepad.net/wwwacta-3
> http://piratepad.net/wwwacta-4
> http://piratepad.net/wwwacta-5
>
> Cheers.
>
>
>
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