Freedom Not Fear 2011/Brussels

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Fehler beim Erstellen des Vorschaubildes: Die Miniaturansicht konnte nicht am vorgesehenen Ort gespeichert werden

This is the page to co-ordinate the European Freedom not Fear weekend in Brussels in September 2011.

Join us: Freedom not Fear 2011 in Brussels European policy making is affecting our every day lives and civil liberties more and more. The EU is increasingly imposing unnecessary and disproportionate governmental surveillance measures on us. We will not take this any longer. Let's carry our protest into the capital of the EU! We invite you to join us for three days of: protest (Saturday, 17 September 2011) networking (Sunday, 18 September 2011) and debate with Members of the European Parliament and EU Commission staff (Monday, 19 September 2011). Let us get together, meet friends from other parts of Europe and tell the EU that we won't take that continuous erosion of our fundamental rights any longer. Issues "Freedom not fear 2011 - Defending fundamental rights in our networked world" We say NO to data retention and PNR and we call for immediate measures and regulation of net neutrality. Full list of demands When and where? From 17. - 19. September 2011 (Saturday till Monday) in Brussels, Belgium. Find more detailed informations on the event-pages of each day. Communication/Contact The international mailing list is for those ones, who like to take part on discussions about all topics of "digital rights" all over europe. But you can contact us also via E-mail and Twitter. Mailing list The international AK Vorrat mailing list is being used to talk about everything that needs to be discussed. The list is open to everyone, the list language is English. Please insert the tag [BXL] into the subject-line of any e-mail to make clear that its content belongs to this topic. Email Contact via e-mail: info(at)freedom-not-fear.eu (pgp-key) (Members of this e-mail distribution list are Werner, Kirsten, Marius, Tobias, Katta, Frank, LJ, Marine, Michael.) Twitter Account: fnf11bxl Tags: #fnf #fnf11bxl Press contact Please contact us at info(at)freedom-not-fear.eu Via Phone: Kirsten (fr/en/de) +32.477.51.98.32 Michael (de/en) +49.157.73.91.91.70 Marius (de/en) +32.488.08.66.56 Accomodation - Doodle IMPORTANT note for those registered for free accomodation (registration closed): Please contact us via info(at)freedom-not-fear.eu and give us your exact arrival date & time so we can arrange everything for you! Material The central material site contains: official logo banners flyers graphics posters videos Donations If you would like to support our undertaking, we are happy about every single cent donated. We promise to spend the money very carefully, not for our time and work but only for material and hardware. Information on where and how to donate. Important: If you like to donate especially for this event, please use the keyword "Freedom not Fear Brussels" or shorter "FNF11BXL" in your bank transfer Find an overview what we are expecting to spend here. (You need to register for having a look at that wiki page. Anonymous registration is possible.) Thanks! Supporters Have a look at the detailed list of supporting groups - here is just nothing more than an overview: Fehler beim Erstellen des Vorschaubildes: Die Miniaturansicht konnte nicht am vorgesehenen Ort gespeichert werden Fehler beim Erstellen des Vorschaubildes: Die Miniaturansicht konnte nicht am vorgesehenen Ort gespeichert werden Pictures Some impressions Welcome! Front view of the protest More pictures

Structure We would like to offer something more than only have a from-the-heart-coming protest march around Brussels. We will combine the protest march with a day of networking and a day of lobbying politicians and bureaucrats responsible for the rules and directives we are complaining about. That will give us a chance to exchange thoughts and concerns directly. And it could open our minds and horizons about what is happening in Brussels exactly. We will thus have three days of "Freedom not fear" in Brussels: 17.9.2011: Day of protest 18.9.2011: Day of networking (barcamp) 19.9.2011: Day of discussion Saturday - day of protest We'll have our demonstration as follows: 13h30 Gathering at Place Luxembourg 14h00 Starting with demonstration, speeches, music at Place Luxembourg ca. 14h30 "protest march" to Place Schuman ca. 15h00 Second manifestation at Place Schuman ca. 15h30 Leaving for a "walk of protest" into the city of Brussels ca. 16h30-18h00 Final manifestation at Chapel Madeleine near Place Grasmarkt More information about Saturday, the day of protest press release Sunday - day of networking Call it a barcamp or not - on Sunday we will have space and time for: workshops lectures, speeches meetings on special topics (data retention, pnr, net-neutrality, acta) handicrafs pieces of culture (music, film ...) More information about Sunday, the day of networking/barcamp Monday - day of discussion Meeting and discussing with politicians and bureaucrats in charge. We like to change ideas, concerns and arguments. More information about Monday, the day of discussion/lobbying Side events There are some other things in life beside all protests and discussions about serious topics. Have a look at some sideevents around the Brussels weekend or just enjoy the city itselfs. Saturday evening - Afterhour and party at London Calling Between 18:00 and 23:00, we have the basement in the popular bar "London Calling" at Place du Londres / Rue Dublin for ourselves. Bring music and good vibrations (free entry until 11pm)! At 23:00, they will have a live Reggae band playing there (5 € entry after 11pm). Saturday evening - Software Freedom day and Ubuntu keysigning party Saturday, 17th of September is Software Freedom Day. We are thinking about having a keysigning party at the evening. SFD is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Our goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality FOSS in education, in government, at home, and in business -- in short, everywhere! The non-profit organization Software Freedom International coordinates SFD at a global level, providing support, giveaways and a point of collaboration, but volunteer teams around the world organize the local SFD events to impact their own communities. Monday to Tuesday - Brucon conference There is also the hacker / IT security conference BRUCON ("Hacking for b33r") in BXL on Monday and Tuesday after our weekend. Monday evening - Brucon Party On Monday evening, there will be a party at the Havana Bar in Brussels, from 10pm onwards, and join folks from BruCON. Line-up: - Joernchen of Phonoelit (http://www.phonoelit.org) - Mumpi of Phonoelit (http://www.phonoelit.org) - Keith Myers (http://www.myspace.com/djkeithmyers) Cheers, BruCON crew! Traveling and accomodation We collected some informations to make getting to Brussels easier and to find some cheap accomodations. Please notice that there is a limited space for a very simple, but free accomodation! Therefore please have a look at our special wiki-page. Links Small Guide for "Privacy-Travellers" to Brussels (German) EU-Lobbying on Data Retention (English) How-To EU-Lobby (German) German demo-blog "Freiheit statt Angst" Blog of Brussels activists Legal guide for activists (from NoBorder camp 2010) (English, German, français, italiano, Nederlands, polski) Archive Commitment Inviting Groups Logo-Competition ToDo Preparation-meeting in Stade, july 30/31 2011 Internas Press review Computerworld: Groups to urge abolition of EU data retention directive Gulli:Datenschutz: "Freiheit statt Angst" kommt nach Brüssel Brüssel: Protestwochenende FREEDOM NOT FEAR EFF: Freedom Not Fear: Ending A Decade Long Legacy of International Privacy Erosion vasistas? Un weekend pour la défense des droits fondamentaux sur le Net à Bruxelles Freedom not Fear Demo in Brüssel ein erster Erfolg

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