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dear pptn,<br>
<br>
try get a hold of rafik dammak at dynamic youth coalition of the
igf. he's been involved with global internet governance issues for a
number of years, he is supercool, and is currently a phd at tokyo
university.<br>
<br>
he's also been an avid defender of tunisian blogger rights through
global voices, i think.<br>
<br>
he is @rafik at twitter.com if you don't already know him<br>
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/a<br>
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cite="mid:AANLkTi=CGopp5UBjGsZCGe=y5S60xUtksN2+W9XU8rdR@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi Pirates,
<div><br>
</div>
<div>We're the Tunisian Pirate Party, many of us have been
involved for a long time already in net freedom, <span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande';
font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">civil rights and
hacktivism. For years now, we're having this project about
doing an international conference on the subjects with
speakers from countries where internet is censored and
governments/dictatorships are very oppressive against freedom
of speech and civil rights along others from countries were
the political situation permits free speech, political
opposition or some sort of it. </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida
Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"><br>
</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida
Grande'">We've advanced on the content of the conference and
the way it'll include offline and online submission
(broadcasted live hopefully). We did not do alot of promotion
yet as we want this event to be relatively small in
size nevertheless we've planned to launch a website, engage
press relations and build up a buzz online. If you feel to
join, help or have ideas we'd really appreciate that, the
tentative dates are December 31st, Jan 2nd. </font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida
Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"><br>
</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida
Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);">We're
looking for </span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida
Grande'"> + speakers from pirate parties that could contribute
ideas and analysis on the above mentioned topics.</font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida
Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> + an
offline venue with reliable internet connection that fits
around 50 people, accessible by airplane, free or inexpensive
(west or east europe, africa, mediterranean islands). </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida
Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"> + help in
organisation, marketing, housing, connectivity, PR, bringing
local sponsors (some bucks and ingredients to organize a
closing party could be helpful). </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida
Grande'; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85);"><br>
</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida
Grande'">Well I think that's it, we've got many motivated and
talented people that are willing to travel and volunteer.
We've got the slides, talks, translation resources in arabic,
french and english and cheerful ideas to spread. We were
thinking of organizing the event in an african country (with
no cyber censorship) but the travel costs are quiet an issue
for most of us so europe would be fine. Last but not least we
could get some talented artists to join in as special guests
so that we spend a happy new pirate year.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida
Grande'"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida
Grande'">I'm sorry if this email doesn't fit well the list,
but we'd really appreciate it if you can join us, do something
or spread the word.</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida
Grande'"><br>
</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida
Grande'">SuX</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida
Grande'">Parti Pirate Tunisien</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#555555" face="'Lucida
Grande'"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:sux@partipirate-tn.org">sux@partipirate-tn.org</a></font></div>
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