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44 rader
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<title>June 9: Help deliver final blow to ACTA</title>
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<h1>June 9: Help deliver final blow to ACTA</h1>
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On Saturday June 9, activists across Europe are taking to the streets to
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protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). They
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demand that the European Parliament should finally reject this
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controversial treaty, which would greatly harm citizens' rights. The
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Parliament will hold a plenary vote on ACTA in July.
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A wave of popular protests in February showed policymakers that endorsing
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the treaty was risky. Several EU member states are wavering in their
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support. The Dutch parliament has even voted to prevent the government
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from signing the treaty. However, ACTA is not dead yet. Those in favour
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of a free information society need to keep up the pressure until the
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European Parliament finally rejects the treaty.
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Please join a protest event near you
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(<a href="http://goo.gl/maps/dsjW">Google map of protests</a>) on June 9,
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and help us keep the information society free.
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ACTA is merely one building block in a wall that is intended to lock us
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in and take away our freedom to share and create knowledge. Other
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building blocks of this wall are the recently revived IPRED2 Directive in
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the EU (<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/governance/impact/planned_ia/docs/2011_markt_006_review_enforcement_directive_ipr_en.pdf">PDF of the European Commission's roadmap)</a>)
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and the <a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/whats-actually-tpp">Transpacific Partnership Agreement</a>
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(TPP).
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