[Free-sklyarov-uk] Protests

[Dan Ackroyd]

I'm not sure that broadening the issues too far would be the best way to go,
even though it might make more people come along to any demonstrations.

The issue as it stands at the moment is very simple to explain: a Russian
programmer has been arrested and charged for actions he took in Russia, and
which he talked about in the U.S.

Including talking about the anti-WTO would include many other issues which
are more difficult to explain, and would not necessarily garner support from
everyone (I, myself, am pro-trade but understand some of the things that
people don't like about the WTO, but wouldn't personally go on a
demonstration against it.)

I suggest contacting other groups to see if they wish to support the 'Free
Dmitry' campaign, but I think any protests we undertake should have a simple
a message as possible. 

It might also get this campaign 'lumped' together with the other protests,
at least in the eyes of the media, who always seems to like pigeonholeing
people.

Having said all that though, it probably would be a good idea to include
anti-DMCA people or any anti-"European Union Copyright Directive" people,(
sorry can't lookup the links right now, I have deadline in 3 hours)...


Just my 2p.

cheers
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Julian T J Midgley [mailto:jtjm at xenoclast.org]
Sent: 30 July 2001 13:57
To: Richard Kay
Cc: free-sklyarov-uk at xenoclast.org
Subject: Re: [Free-sklyarov-uk] Protests


On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Richard Kay wrote:

> I think the best way to get the possibility of decent numbers on
> this protest by Saturday is to broaden the issue so that those involved
> in anti WTO activities generally are willing to adopt
> Free-Sklyarov and anti-DMCA as a cause directly connected with theirs,
> rather than this being an issue understood only by a very narrow and
> specialised group of hacktivists. I think some research into UK based
> anti-WTO lists and education there about the WTO extension of
> corporate intellectual property rights might enable a fairly quick
> escalation of support.

This seems emminently sensible - do any of you have contact details for
appropriate organisations.  I'm going to do a web search, and prepare a
letter explaining our position and the purpose of the protests.

Julian

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