Subject: THE TPP AGAIN, SUDDENLY: ACTION PLEASE, AND MAKE VIRAL: They'll go to any length to keep you out
We didn't win win with the action from October 2013 through January 2014, but we DID win a lull. They ducked their heads to wait awhile after what we all had gotten going. WE DID KNOW that we would want to stay ready for their next shot. PLEASE, LET US ALL HELP DISCOURAGE THEM AGAIN!
This is a chance for you to speak and be heard (link repeated below). Suddenly there is something going on again with that atrocity, the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. (Wikipedia link). A new round of negotiations is to take place in Ottowa from July 3 to 12, 2014 (WSJ link). Please keep reading.
This below arrived today from OpenMedia.org. They are well worth looking at and possibly going in different directions from there. I got on their list at some point and have not been sorry.*
Again I have cleaned up the links and have made them safe for you. Clicking the original complicated ones in my email would have identified me, I think, which is fine by me, since I'm signed up, but not for you. Again, they are fixed now and are ok and fine for you to click on.
SO PLEASE ACT (link repeated below) AND THEN TAKE THIS VIRAL OR VICE VERSA. THANKS!!
For links to some of my previous messages with resource information about the Trans ("TPP") please go down to the bottom of this. They are rather extensive. Larry
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Revealed: New Trans-Pacific Partnership Internet censorship meetings are taking place in the coming days. We
need your voices in our new easy-to-use ‘Internet Voice’ tool. We’ll
take the best comments to decision-makers when they meet in Ottawa,
Canada.
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Your OpenMedia team has just confirmed the location of a new ultra-secretive meeting to finalize the Trans Pacific Partnership’s (TPP) Internet censorship plan.
It’s taking place in just a few days in Ottawa, Canada.
In response: OpenMedia is launching a new easy-to-use Internet Voice tool that will get your voice directly to those behind the TPP’s Internet censorship plan. Add your voice now >>>
We’ve seen industry lobbyists and bureaucrats go to extreme lengths to keep their plans secret before.1 But this time really takes the cake.
We’ve kept on top of these TPP developments and we found out about the Ottawa meeting to finalize the censorship plans with just a few days left. We’re ready for them despite the short notice.
If signed, the TPP will mean the end of free expression online as we know it. It would force service providers to censor the Internet – removing content, and even blocking websites outright.2 The expense will be passed on to you.
Under pressure from over 3.1 million people around the world,3 key negotiators have agreed to meet with us.
What concern would you raise with a TPP decision-maker if they were standing in front of you? Internet censorship? Privacy? New Internet costs? Lack of democracy?
Those involved in TPP censorship plans will be meeting us soon and we want to have your comments in hand. We’ll make sure your voice is heard if you join in now.
Powerful interests are going to great lengths to keep secrets from you, so they can sign an agreement that gives outdated media conglomerates the power to control how you share, collaborate, and express yourself online.
They hope to finalize an agreement that will globalize Internet censorship in the coming days -- This could be our last chance to reach them face-to-face. We hope you’ll take this opportunity.
Thank you for being a part of this -- our tools and strategies are effective because of you.
Josh, Meghan, and Steve, on behalf of your OpenMedia team.
P.S., We’re a small and nimble team, but we’re going up against some big players. Donations from our supporters fuel our work and make a huge impact on our ability to win. Please, consider chipping in today.
Footnotes
[1] If the TPP is so wonderful, why keep it secret?. Source: iPolitics.
[2] Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). Source: WikiLeaks.
[3] Huge international campaign beams 3.1 million signature petition count on prominent buildings in Washington, D.C. Source: OpenMedia.org.
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Related previous email messages from me (Larry A. Scott):
another BIG worry for ya--the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) 10/5/13
TIME TO ACT and make this viral Re: another BIG worry for ya--the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) 10/19/13
Mark Weisbrot on the TPP Re: "America's Little Spy Helpers Down Under Create an Uproar"--guess where my sympathies are 11/24/13
Ellen Brown (Web of Debt) "Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance" 11/29/13
"Trans-Pacific Partnership" (TPP) opposition news update 12/21/13
from 350.org and RTNews WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, PLEASE HELP KEEP UP THE PRESSURE AGAINST THE TPP ALSO 1/18/14
JANUARY 31ST DAY OF TPP ACTION; Obama and Michelle Bachmann Re: TPP Please Act and Take This Viral: actually got off my butt today...mission accomplished? no, not quite yet, please help 1/25/14
the TPP negotiations include SOPA; CLICK THE FACE Re: Another entry connection for January 31st action Re: JANUARY 31ST DAY OF TPP ACTION; Obama and..... 1/26/14
Pitting Fear of Our Complicity Against the Fear to Resist the TPP 1/26/14
FREEPRESS.NET STOP THE TPP Re: Pitting Fear ..... 1/29/14
Robert Reich: "Why There’s No Outcry": [there have been some outcries] 1/30/14
we might be winning; text of my letter just now to my House representative 1/31/14
Well we didn't win win, but we did win a lull. They ducked their heads to wait awhile after what we all had gotten going. WE DID KNOW that we would want to stay ready for their next shot. PLEASE, LET US ALL HELP DISCOURAGE THEM AGAIN!
love,
Larry
* OpenMedia.org's server is located in Canada, by the way, according to my little
notification from Flagfox. And the location of the Wikipedia server for
the secret document referenced in footnote 2 shows up as being in
Norway. Hmmm. It seems there is worldwide interest in this TPP thing, surprise surprise. :-7
