[Free-sklyarov-uk] Protests

[Julian T. J. Midgley]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Dan Ackroyd wrote:

> Yes I will be there, for either Friday or Saturday.
>
> As for drumming up more support I guess we ought to tell as many people as
> possible that the protest is going ahead on Friday.
>
> The Register mentioned Dmitry the other day in a story they ran:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20716.html

Ok, we'll go ahead with Friday (kicking off at 1pm).  I'm going to
announce the protests to the Register this afternoon.

I will also speak to Wendy McAuliffe (sp?) from ZDnet.

> so perhaps they would be interested telling everyone what we've got planned.
> Julian I suggest you contact them first as they are read by many UK based IT
> people who might care to join us.
>
> Also we need to add our event to the calender of events on freeSklyarov.org.
> Does anyone have any objections if I do that in an hour or two ?

No problem at all, go ahead.

> >Conservatively, that's 4 people, which does not much of a protest make ;-)
> Hey its a start, and its five people almost 6000 miles away from where the
> arrest took place which makes it more significant.

This is true, and I've feeling if we get a bit of press coverage from the
Register and others before the event we will be able to make that into a
much more respectable 20 or so without much difficulty.

All the best,

Julian

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