[pp.int.general] Meanwhile…ACTA.

[Brendan Molloy]

Protests are almost entirely ineffective in Australia to the point of
being counter-effective. Every single time a protest is run, no matter
the topic, it is hijacked by "revolutionary Socialists" who raise their
banners and yell "shame" and sell their Marxist propaganda.

This happens in every capital city, so there is no avoiding it. They
even managed to hijack the Occupy movement here and destroy it quickly.
For these reasons, politicians ignore protests, and the people ignore
protests. They are sadly a very ineffective measure for protest here.

The alternative is to get the media talking about it, which is another
challenge within itself. We were recently in a newspaper circulated to
all train-farers recently which highlighted ACTA a bit.

At least when our Treaties Committee looks at the treaty in the coming
weeks, they will have our submission
(http://pirateparty.org.au/media/submissions/ppau-acta-submission.pdf)
which highlights that Europe is currently struggling with the signing of
it, and may actually consider it a bad treaty.

I would hold my breath though, America controls the signing hand here.

Justus Römeth wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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Regards,

Brendan Molloy
Secretary
Pirate Party Australia

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