[Free-sklyarov-uk] Corrupt CD's - Time for another protest/leafleting session?

[Chuck Heffner]

Hallelujah.

> It's got to the point now, though, where it seems that we have taken
> the role of the only people (it seems) standing up for consumer rights
> in this area.  This is crazy !!  What are all those consumer
> organizations doing ?
    Pardon me, but no shit. Like there, no one in the U.S. is doing squat
about this as I'd hoped would happen. I am bordering on burnout on my site,
but I don't want to let down my site visitors, so I keep churning along. I'd
love some help from the some of the consumer groups in my country...so far
zip.

> they've been doing it without announcing it to the list.  (Chuck is
> another case entirely, and he seems to have successfully taken on
> every role in the team with his campaign in the States.)
    True, but it's an illusion. I work 38 hours per week on my site (4.5
hours every night and 8 hours a day on Saturdays and Sundays) to keep up
with site updates, e-mail and planning. Help would be very nice, :-).

> So, the floor's open.  What do you want to do ?
    YMMV, but I've started pointing people to the FTC (Fair Trade
Commission), the U.S. government agency in charge of fair trade practices.
I've asked visitors to spend 6-8 minutes calling the FTC to make a complaint
that's already ready-made for them, with documentation. I am wide open to
any alternate ideas y'all have, because I can probably adapt them to the
U.S.
    Last, one idea - send press clippings and evidence of the CD issue to
affinity groups in the UK? Ask them to get off their arses? We cannot be the
one-man bands...

Chuck

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Peters" <jim at uazu.net>
To: <free-sklyarov-uk at xenoclast.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: [Free-sklyarov-uk] Corrupt CD's - Time for another
protest/leafleting session?


> Simon Wood wrote:
> > (some really good points)
>
> Okay, this is how it seems to me.  My original aim with the CD
> campaign was to make a big splash and get a load of attention in a
> short space of time -- to put the campaign on the map -- based on my
> own preference for short periods of intense activity, rather than long
> drawn-out situations.  That did work to some extent, with plenty of
> internet-based coverage, and quite a few bits elsewhere as well.
>
> Bear in mind that the CD issue wasn't the original target of the CDR.
> Originally it was to campaign on Dmitry's case, and from there the
> natural extension was to the EUCD.  I came along and picked up on the
> CD issue as a way to get a whole load of public attention to the whole
> wider issue of restrictions on media use (legal and otherwise) being
> put in place by the huge media companies -- one of the first
> consumer-visible examples of their unpleasant plans for us.
>
> It's got to the point now, though, where it seems that we have taken
> the role of the only people (it seems) standing up for consumer rights
> in this area.  This is crazy !!  What are all those consumer
> organizations doing ?
>
> I don't have the personal resources/skills to do justice to this as a
> consumer issue all on my own.  Dan had to go away to Canada, Julian is
> in the middle of reorganizing his life to fit more into it (although
> he has kept up with the press contacts), and others somehow haven't
> kept things going on the CD issue -- or at least, if they have,
> they've been doing it without announcing it to the list.  (Chuck is
> another case entirely, and he seems to have successfully taken on
> every role in the team with his campaign in the States.)
>
> Until we get organized and coordinated again, it's hard to see how we
> can support a large-scale campaign on this.
>
> The other thing is inspiration.  The CD campaign so far has been
> driven by inspiration from various people at various times -- mine in
> the initial organization, Phil in the publicity, and so on.
> Inspiration makes it easy to work hard.  Right now, my inspiration is
> in FIR filter design for brain-wave analysis and writing a window
> manager.  (What can you do !?  You have to run with it while you've
> got it.)
>
> Perhaps the inspiration this time will come from different people, and
> if so, I'm happy to support with all the stuff I've built up 'til now
> -- such as leaflets (I can produce nicely-formatted leaflets very
> quickly now), co-ordination support, web-site pages, and so on.  Also,
> I'm continuing to process the bad CD reports that come in, and
> attempting to push things forwards on a subtle level.
>
> So, the floor's open.  What do you want to do ?
>
> Jim
>
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