Dear all, let me forward this important invitation to you with a recommendation for support and to join the Day We Fight Back on February 11th -- as some of our member ALSes did already. I would like to put this appeal on the agenda of our next monthly call on Tuesday 28 January to discuss and decide whether we should support and sign this action day as EURALO. Thanks for your consideration and kind regards, Wolf Katitza Rodriguez sent Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:54:
Dear IRP Coalition,
Here is an invitation to join the international action on February 11th, the day we fight back against mass surveillance.
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Dear Friends of the Internet:
The Snowden revelations have provided us with disturbing details and confirmation of some of our worst fears about the NSA and its partners’ spying practices. Indeed, the NSA and its allies in five English-speaking countries have been building a global surveillance infrastructure to “master the internet” and spy on the world’s communications[1]. They are undermining basic encryption standards, the very backbone of the Internet. They have collected the phone records of hundreds of millions of people who are not suspected of any crime. They has swept up the electronic communications of millions of people at home and abroad indiscriminately, exploiting the digital technologies we use to connect and inform. They have secretive data sharing agreements operating outside the rule of law.
But we aren’t going to let the NSA and its five allies ruin the Internet. Inspired by the memory of Aaron Swartz, fueled by our victory against SOPA and ACTA, we are joining the DayWeFightBack campaign to demand an end to mass surveillance at home and abroad.
The SOPA and ACTA protests were successful because we all took part, as a community. As Aaron Swartz put it, everybody "made themselves the hero of their own story." We can set a date, but we need all of you, the users of the Internet, to make it a movement.
When: The Day We Fight Back has been set for February 11th.
Here's how you can join the effort:
1. Send an email to rights@eff.org confirming your interest in participating in this action and receiving updates. Let us know what you would like to do in your own country so we can send you more information and amplify your voice.
2. Visit TheDayWeFightBack.org.
The organizers in the United States of the DayWeFightBack are: Demand Progress, Access, EFF, Internet Taskforce, FFTF, Free Press, Mozilla, Reddit, ThoughtWorks, BoingBoing
3. If you are a citizen of the world, sign the 13 Necessary and Proportionate Principles here: https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/take-action #privacyisaright
The organizers of the international action of the DayWeFightBack are named below at the end of this email [2]
4. Use social media tools to announce your participation.
5. Develop memes, tools, websites, and do whatever else you can to encourage others to participate.
6. Be creative -- plan your own action. Go to the streets. Promote the Principles. Then, let us know so we can broadcast your efforts.
[2] The current organizers of the international action of the Day We Fight Back are:
Amnesty International USA Access (International) Anti-vigilancia (Brasil) Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (Argentina) Asociacion de Internautas - Spain (Spain) CCC (Germany) ContingenteMX (Mexico) CIPPIC (Canada) Digitale Gesellschaft (Germany) Digital Courage (Germany) EFF (International) Electronic Frontiers Australia (Australia)” Hiperderecho (Peru) ICT Consumers Association of Kenya Open Rights Group (UK) OpenMedia.org (Canada/International) OpenNet Korea (South Korea) Panoptykon Foundation (Poland) Privacy International (International) PEN International (International) TEDIC (Paraguay) RedPaTodos (Colombia) ShareDefense (Balkans)
We are from the Internet and we are here to help.
[1] Learn more: Eyes Wide Open https://www.privacyinternational.org/projects/eyes-wide-open
Katitza Rodriguez EFF International Rights Director - @Txitua
EuroDIG Secretariat http://www.eurodig.org/ mobile +41 79 204 83 87 Skype: Wolf-Ludwig EURALO - ICANN's Regional At-Large Organisation http://euralo.org Profile on LinkedIn http://ch.linkedin.com/in/wolfludwig