[Free-sklyarov-uk] Dmitry Released on Bail

[Martin Keegan]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:

> What's the most effective action we can take next?

There are three classes of activity I can see as being beneficial to
undertake:

        Research
        Contacting other people and groups
        Campaigning

Research: 
        someone needs to go away and enumerate what is wrong with
		EUCD/DMCA
        someone else needs to qualify the relative importance of the
                issues identified, wrt to the sorts of people we're trying
                to convince
        someone needs to write this stuff up as webpages, press releases,
                flyers, etc
        someone needs to discover the exact legal position of the EUCD as
                it makes its way through European legislatures

Contact:
        two sorts of targets: those likely to assist with the campaign,
                and those likely just to support the campaign

        find general people interested in joining the campaign,
                the sort who are already on the mailing list
        find contacts in the press who "get" the issues (e.g., Newsnight,
                John Naughton)
        find bodies which are already involved in the issues and identify
                ourselves to them (e.g., FIPR, EFF)
        find bodies whose purpose is not related to the issues but which
                nevertheless have an interest or stake (e.g., IEEE)
        find academics, business leaders
        communicate with general public

Campaigning:
	need to come up with an argument to get more people onto the
                streets. 35 ain't bad, though, but no-one's going to
		protest without a good reason... how many more would
		be interested in joining in future similar actions?
        first protest was unbelievably lucky, and ideas for improving
                effectiveness of future actions were proposed on the day
		

HTH,

Mk