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<html newsdate="2012-02-10">
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<head>
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<title>Join the protest against ACTA</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>Join the protest against ACTA</h1>
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<p newsteaser="yes">
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ACTA, a multi-national treaty to enforce copyright and patents, is
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threatening Free Software and freedom in the information society. It
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endangers people's access to essential medicines. The treaty creates a
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culture of surveillance and suspicion, and the way in which it was
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negotiated is a mockery of proper democratic process.
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</p>
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<p>
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On Saturday February 11, please join those of us across Europe and the
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world who want to live in freedom, and protest against ACTA. There are
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various ways to find out about a protest near you.
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<p>
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<ul>
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<li> Check the <a href="http://wiki.stoppacta-protest.info/Main_Page">Stop ACTA wiki site</a>.</li>
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<li> A <a href="http://ur1.ca/82gvc">Google map</a> of planned protests</li>
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<li>ACTA group on <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/acta">Reddit</a></li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>
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Read about how ACTA threatens Free Software on FSF
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US's <a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta">ACTA page</a>, and
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please consider signing
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the <a href="http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/acta/acta-declaration">ACTA
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declaration</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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ACTA is not the only threat. It is merely one building block in a wall
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that is intended to lock us in and take away our freedom to share and
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create knowledge. Other building blocks of this wall are the recently
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revived IPRED2 Directive in the EU
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(<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/governance/impact/planned_ia/docs/2011_markt_006_review_enforcement_directive_ipr_en.pdf">PDF
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of the European Commission's roadmap</a>), the SOPA/PIPA proposals in the
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US, and
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the <a href="http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/whats-actually-tpp">Transpacific
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Partnership Agreement</a> (TPP).
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</p>
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</body>
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<tags>
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<tag>en</tag>
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<tag>front-page</tag>
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<tag>ACTA</tag>
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<tag>policy</tag>
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</tags>
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</html>
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