Freedom Not Fear 2011/Brussels

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Idea

The following text is part of an internal AK-Vorrat-annonuncement from June 19th, 2011. Please note: this is just the state of discussion and nothing fixed. Things have to be discussed - feel free to join our vision and participate!

There's a couple of people who'd like to organise a small demonstration in Brussels against data retention.

On our yearly summer meeting in Germany we had some (also controversial) discussion that led to this text.

We would like to give it a try: We want to support groups in Brussels and its surroundings who are willing to organise demonstrations. In addition, we are looking forward to gathering international experience in campaigning.

Please note that it is of big importance to us that by no means we want to compete with "Freedom not Fear" on September 10th in Berlin. Furthermore, we don't want to evoke great expectations that we won't be able to meet.

However, we want to offer more than a demonstration: It might for example be nice to stay in Brussels for two or three days in order to combine our protest with networking, becoming acquainted with other activists and having a lobbying day. That's what we have in mind and what might provide an incentive for some people to set out for Brussels.

For these reasons – no competition and the chance for people to join both the Berlin demonstration and the Brussels demonstration - we aim for Saturday, September 17th.

There are some other things we would like to point out:

  • Everyone is invited to participate in this wiki and on the international mailing list.
  • It is generally agreed that "Freedom not Fear" is no suitable slogan for September 17th because it can be mixed up with the demonstration on September 10th. Therefore, we're searching for a different slogan. Has anybody got an idea?
  • We will have a meeting on July 30th and 31st in Stade (Germany) in order to see how far we will have progressed and what the further devolopment should look like. Everyone who's interested in this project is invited to participate.
  • This is a very basic wiki page covering our attempt.
  • A lot of our ideas can be found on our summer meeting etherpad. Look for Saturday evening's and Sunday's entries (unfortunately it's only in German - we will transfer it to this wiki page soon).

Any support and every helpful idea/participation is welcome!

Status

We had this idea with a few people since spring 2011. After contacting nurpa.be and having the AK Vorrat summer meeting we encouraged ourselves to fix the idea.

What?

We would like to offer something more than only have a from-the-heart-coming protest march around Brussels-highscrapers.

If anyhow possible we are looking for combining the protest-day with a kind of discussion- or lobby-day with politicians and bureaucrats responsible for the rules and directives, we're complaining on.

That should give us a chance to change thoughts and concerns in direct communication. And it could open minds and horizons about what happens in Brussels at all.

Let's see if that will work ...

When?

First thoughts of combining this with the demonstration in Berlin on September 10 had been dropped because we don't like to compete against that and some people liked to join both dates.

Therefore we chose the weekend afterwards around September 17 (Saturday).

Where? - protest-routes/proposals

Use the blanket map to develop your own idea of a good way for the protest march and load it up here as a proposal.

Communication

We chose the international AK Vorrat mailinglist to talk about everything that needs to be discussed. The list is open to everyone, the mailinglist-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.

Side-Ideas

  • inviting politicians to join the protest march?
  • open microphone: giving the people opportunity not for a long speech but for one or two sentences of their concers, why they are upset on data retention etc.

Whom? - proposals for people to meet on lobby-day

From the commission:

  • Cecilia Malmström
  • Reinhard Priebe
  • Cecilia Verkleij
  • Christian D'Cunha

From the parliament:

  • Alexander Alvaro
  • Jan Philipp Albrecht
  • Birgit Sippel
  • Martin Schulz
  • Axel Voss
  • Monika Hohlmeier
  • Sophie In't Veld

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