Stop ACTA!!! Find A Protest In Your Area for Saturday

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One of these days, I will post something that is not fanfic or a signal boost: I've just been tired and busy lately, it seems...

Originally posted by haruka89 at Stop ACTA!!! Find A Protest In Your Area for Saturday
From Accessnow.org:

On Saturday, the world will be out in an unprecedented showing of solidarity against ACTA. Here are some of the ways you can join online and offline: PROTEST

• If you want to attend one of the events below, find your country and city below and RSVP
• If you know of another protest that is not listed, please let us know at info@accessnow.org
• If you want to start your own protest, especially if you live outside of Europe, create an Event on Facebook and then send us the link to the event at info@accessnow.org.

PETITION

• Sign the petition calling on the EP to vote NO on ACTA: https://www.accessnow.org/acta

INFORMATION

• Read our booklet on why it's so controversial (in 12 different languages).
• One-page fact sheets to hand out on Saturday: English, French, German, Polish, and Romanian.

USTREAM Before you go to one of the events, make sure you download the USTREAM app to stream Saturday's protest through your mobile phone! Here's how:

• Go to: http://www.ustream.tv/revolutionaryjournalism
• Download Ustream Mobile App and Create Your Account
• Fill out the form called "Feature Your Coverage on Ustream" (left box)
• Include "ACTA" in "Short description of content"

If you can't make it, come back here on Saturday to watch the USTREAM.
RSVP BELOW TO AN EVENT NEAR YOU

From Fight For The Future:

6 Reasons to oppose ACTA

1. ACTA locks countries into obsolete copyright and patent laws. If a democracy decides on less restrictive laws that reflect the reality of the internet, ACTA will prevent that.
2. ACTA criminalizes users by making noncommercial, harmless remixes into crimes if "on a commercial scale" (art 2.14.1). Many amateur works achieve a commercial scale on sites like Youtube. ACTA, like SOPA, could mean jail time for the Justin Biebers of the world.
3. ACTA Criminalizes legitimate websites, making them responsible for user behavior by "aiding and abetting". (art 2.14.4). Like SOPA, the founders of your favorite sites could be sued or (worse) thrown in jail for copyright infringement by their users.
4. ACTA will let rightsholders use laughably inflated claims of damages (based on the disproven idea that every download or stream is a lost sale) to sue people. As if suing amazing artists, video makers and websites for millions wasn't hard enough!
5. ACTA Permanently bypasses democracy by giving the "ACTA Committee" the power to "propose amendments to [ACTA]" (art 6.4). In other words, voting for ACTA writes a blank check to an unelected committee. These closed-door proceedings will be a playground for SOPA-supporters like the MPAA.
6. Trade agreements are a gaping loophole, a backdoor track that, even though it creates new law, is miles removed from democracy. It's a secretive process that's tailor-made to serve politically connected companies. And the movie studios behind SOPA? They're experts at it. If we can't make secretive trade agreements harder to pass than US law, our internet's future belongs to the lobbyists behind SOPA.

From La Quadrature du Net
And here a map with many protest on the 11. Feb. (if you can't see the map, go visit the first accessnow.org link):

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