20110527-30-Work-and-lobby-weekend-pnr

Work-and-lobby-weekend on PNR

The idea behind this is to get people from europe together to talk, (net)work and lobby against the planed Passenger-Name-Record-Directive (PNR-DR).

Structure

The idea behind this model of "work-and-lobby-weekend" ist as following:

• friday evening - saturday morning: arrival, get together
• saturday morning - sunday evening: meeting, talking, discussing
• sunday afternoon: finding "common sense", compiling "common paper", preparing for monday
• monday: common lobbying in Altiero-Spinelli
• monday afternoon/evening: saying good-bye

Everybody should feel free to use the time on monday or further on for his own lobbying-campaign. Once you're inside of Altiero Spinelli it is very easy to get in contact with MEP's or their right hands.

When?

2011, May 27 to 30 (friday til monday)

Where?

Brussels, Belgium.

For the weekend we will spend the day-time at the small conference room at mundo.

Here is a map of that location - it is quite near to the metro-station porte de namur, even very near to the mep's houses, which doesn't matter.

On monday we'll have a conference room in Altiero Spinelli (Parliaments house).

Lobbying to whom?

Proposals

• Timothy Kirkhope (ECR, UK)
• Jan-Philipp Albrecht (Greens, DE)
• Axel Voss / Monika Hohlmeier (EPP, DE / DE)
• Birgit Sippel (S&D, DE)
• Sophie In't Veld / Alexander Alvaro (ALDE, NL / DE)
• Rui Tavares / Cornelia Ernst (GUE, PT / DE)
• Reinhard Priebe, Director - Internal Security, DG HOME Job description: To provide overall strategic orientation and management of Directorate A "Internal Security", within the framework set by the Directorate's-General mission statement and annual work programme. The Directorate operates under the direct supervision of the Director-General.
• Despina Vassiliadou, Policy Officer - Access to information, DG HOME Job description: Contribute to EU policy regarding access to information, in particular access to Passenger Name Record data (PNR).
• Peter Csonka, JHA Coodinator, Hungarian Council Presidency
• Stavros Lambrinidis (S&D, ESP) Vice President of Parliament, Involved in new Data Protection Directive
• maybe we should try to invite some media/press as well: i.e. Claus Hecking (FTD), Valentina Popp (euobserver)

Requested

• Axel Voss
• Timothy Kirkhope
• Sophie In't Veld
• German Permanent Representation

Confirmed

• Jan-Philipp Albrecht

Who is joining?

• michael - DE, from "AK Vorrat", micha_ebeling (edd) mail36 (dot) net
• Alex - AT, from NoPNR, info (edd) nopnr (dot) org
• Ralf Bendrath, AK Vorrat / netzpolitik.org / EDRi, bendrath (at) zedat (dot) fu-berlin (dot) de
• Hauke, Liberal, Green and Radical, EU-Privacy Issues (privacydirective.eu) and Critical Infrastructure, activism[äätt]gierow[bunkt]eu
• Marius - DE, AK Vorrat, maurice (äth) prodlab (dot) net
• Gero - AK Vorrat (Freiburg) gero-nagel (ätt) web [dot] de
• Joe - joe.mcnamee (at) EDRi.org
• Wouter (Greens in the EP)

Accomodation

We were looking for different solutions but didn't catch any real good solution. We would like to recommend to get to the 2go4-hostel because the prices are okay there, there is free wifi and a public kitchen and it's no problem to stay there even if you're older than 40 summers (even though that those guys didn't like to help us in reserving a 8-bed-room for ourselves ...).

If you like to stay anywhere else - no problem. There is a little overview of some cheap hostels on the german wiki page "brussels travel guide for privacy-activists".

Questions?

Don't hesitate to ask Michael, Marius or Ralf.

What do we need on-site?

• very important: printer (?)
• printer-paper (michael)
• WIFI-router (michael)
• beamer incl. long vga-cable (michael)
• belgium umts-stick (ryo via michael)
• some power extension cables (?)
• some pencils, glue, scissors (michael)
• anything else?

Financial support

Is unfortunately not available. We have to finance and work on ourselves.

But: If any big trouble in this, then please dont hesitate to contact us. There may be support in single cases!

Pictures

Some images of our friday-to-sunday-home Mundo (stolen from here).

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Some images from the 2go4-hostel (stolen from here).

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  community-room including open kitchen

Links

• How we started to fix our idea: former wiki-site (see also its history!)
• Brussels-travel-guide for privacy activists (unfortunately only in german language)
• EU-lobbying on data retention (english)
• How-to-EU-lobby (german)