Work-and-lobby-weekend-pnr
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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 PNR-Directive.
The group doesn't have to be big (small can be beautyful) but it should be open for everybody interested or specialised in this topic.
When and how? - Proposal of "timetable"
Could happen in may or june 2011.
First set meant to meet over an weekend (saturday and sunday, maybe arrival already on friday evening) in order to get together, give input to each other, organise and strucutrise the topic and to work out a more or less common line.
Spending time together should - not at last - happen at friendly and easy circumstances. It should not be just a "job" but an opportunity to meet and to change minds and ideas.
The following monday shall be used to meet people from commission and member of parliament, who are busy with this pnr-direction. The idea is to give them as much critical and on-fact based arguments of our opinion. It might be useful to work out some straigt and impressive paper on the day before.
Ralf suggested to organise those monday-lobby-meeting within a conference format. He could help to reserve a conference room within the parliament building.
- Good Idea, because a similar happening on december 2010 was quite productive (says michael).
Everybody is free to use this day to organize other lobby-meetings on his own and on topics that he is interested in, too.
Chosen date
may 27th (friday evening) to may 30th (monday) 2011
Lobbying to whom?
First proposal:
- 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)
Any more proposals?
It will be (probably) the biggest problem to organise the meetings with this people on that one monday.
I (says michael) do need help in doing this job, because I am not in contact with most of that guys.
Ralf offered help to make reservation of the conference room for monday. He will ask for some vip's to come, too. But maybe he could need some help in that ... !?
Where?
Possible Locations
At this moment (says michael) I am looking for a place that fits my idea of an easy and nice atmosphere to get together. I am not a friend of "high-class-suites" but more look forward for a place with sense of well-being.
It should be affordable, too and if anybody prefers to sleep in a better hotel or similar nothing speaks against it.
Of course we will need electrical power :) wifi and at least someting like a good printer or copy-issue for our work.
As soon as I got some facts or response from my requests I will tell here.
We were looking at the following addresses:
Unfortunately we didn't get any 100%-perfect location to live *and* to stay in ...
Chosen Location
Over the day
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).
And the nights?
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".
Who is interested?
- 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
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