Freedom Not Fear 2011/Brussels/Invitation
Invitation
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Dear friends,
we have a vision to engage in an event of the Europe-wide "Freedom not Fear action" taking place in Brussels.
After a period of putting our heads together, having some talks and thoughts we are a little bit proud having established this vision into a very first concept:
On September 17th to 19th (Saturday to Monday) we invite you and all of your friends, members and supporters to come to Brussels and join our European "Freedom not Fear weekend" - it is part of an international week of action for freedom of speech and privacy under the same motto. In the last years, it had been supported by a broad alliance of more than 150 organizations including political parties, professional associations, trade unions and freedom activists.
What's going on there?
We would like to start with a demonstration on Saturday: We say "No!" to data retention and PNR, we reject measures that are violating our fundamental democratic right to freedom of expression and we therefore call for immediate measures to protect Net Neutrality on a European level.
The following Sunday shall give us some room and time for networking over all European borders, meeting, making friends, giving and joining workshops, lectures and talks. It's only up to you and us, what we are making out of it.
On Monday, we would like to invite politicians, parlamentarians and representatives from the European Commission to lend us an ear, to hear our concerns and our arguments.
What do we ask for?
1. Please spread this invitation to all members and friends of your group, who are connected to the idea of defending our fundamental rights in a mordern, networked world. Everybody is invited to join us. Additional help in organizing would be great but is definitely not necessary.
2. We also would like to ask you for some support of our idea of an European weekend of protesting, networking and debating. It would be very helpful if we were allowed to feed our supporters-list with your name.
3. Finally, we are still looking for a nice logo/emblem/graphic to brand our "event". Therefore we started a competition (without money or material awards!) and it would be fine if you could spread the invitation to join this competition to all of your members.
More Information
Freedom not Fear 2011 Weekend-experience Brussels
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2011/Brussels
Freedom not Fear
http://www.freedomnotfear.org
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2011
Logo/graphics-competition
http://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Freedom_Not_Fear_2011/Brussels/Logo-Competition
Open Mailinglist for all discussions
https://listen.akvorrat.org/mailman/listinfo/akv-international
Contact
<enkode>bxl@freedomnotfear.org</enkode>
Personal contact
Kirsten: ethnes (at) gmx.de, Twitter: @Kirst3nF, Jabber: kirst3n (at) jabber.ccc.de
Michael: micha_ebeling (at) mail36.net, Mobile (+49) 1577 - 39 19 170
Marius: maurice (at) prodlab (pt) net, GSM +49 176 609 607 88, Jabber: maurice.prodlab (at) draugr (pt) de
Kai-Uwe Steffens: kai-uwe (at) vorratsdatenspeicherung.de, Mobile +49 (0)160 9484 7938
About us
We are a mixed group of NGO's and normal citizens from all over europe.
List of groups to be invited
| Group/addressee | Invited? By whom? | Reply? | Support? (yes/no) |
|---|---|---|---|
| AK Vorrat - vorratsdatenspeicherung.de | yes, by michael | yes | yes |
| Nurpa - nurba.be | yes, by Kirsten | yes | |
| FoeBuD e.V. - foebud.org | yes, by michael | / | / |
| EDRi.org | yes, by Kirsten | / | / |
| LaQuadrature.net | yes, by Kirsten | 1 Jul. | maybe |
| AK Zensus - zensus11.de | yes, by michael | yes | yes |
| AK Zensur - ak-zensur.de | yes, by michael | / | / |
| La Ligue des droits de l'homme .be | yes | 5. Jul. | yes |
| Digitale Gesellschaft | yes, by Kirsten | 15. Jul. | yes |
| Bits of Freedom | yes, by Kirsten | 14. Jul. | |
| EFF | yes, by Kirsten | 14. Jul. | |
| OpenRightsGroup | yes, by Kirsten | 14. Jul. | |
| Hackerspace Brussels | yes, by Kirsten | 14. Jul. | |
| Hackerspaces Benelux | yes, by Kirsten | 14. Jul. | |
| NoPNR! | yes, by Kirsten | 15. Jul. | yes |
| Iuricidum Remedium (CZE) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Metamorphosis Foundation (MK) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Privacy International (UK) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Pangea (ESP) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Digital Rights Ireland (IRE) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Consumers International (UK) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Statewatch (UK) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Association for Technology and Internet (ROM) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Associazione per la Libertà nella Comunicazione Elettronica Interattiva (ITA) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Associação Nacional para o Software Livre (POR) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Electronic Frontier Finland (FIN) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Electronic Frontier Norway (NOR) | yes, by Marius | ||
| FITUG (GER) | yes, by Marius | ||
| FIfF (GER) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Foundation for Information Policy Research (UK) | yes, by Marius | ||
| GreenNet (UK) | yes, by Marius | ||
| IT-Pol (DEN) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Panoptykon Foundation (POL) | yes, by Marius | ||
| quintessenz (AUT) | yes, by Marius | ||
| VIBE!AT (AUT) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Vrijschrift (NED) | yes, by Marius | ||
| Association Européenne pour la Défense des Droits de l’Homme (BEL) | yes, by Marius |
See here the resulting listing of supporting groups.
Former actions
Draft of invitation-letter
Has been edited on etherpad.