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Tomorrow is the new Europe-wide day of action against ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement; for a list of events and links to specific protests, see this map. The occasion to stop ACTA is coming up as the European Parliament is likely to vote on it in July.
Α worldwide coalition of numerous organizations, including European Digital Rights (27 European civil rights and privacy NGOs), the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Free Knowledge Institute, the Free Software Foundation, and Consumers International (world federation of 220 consumer groups in 115 countries), has argued that "the current draft of ACTA would profoundly restrict the fundamental rights and freedoms of European citizens, most notably the freedom of expression and communication privacy." In addition, this agreement has been negotiated in secret; and it is characteristic that the rapporteur for ACTA in the European Parliament, Kader Arif, resigned and denounced the entire process for excluding civil society organizations and lacking transparency, as well as for excluding the European Parliament's demands.
What is ACTA and why should you be worried about it?
Olivia Solon, Wired UK
We have every right to be furious about ACTA
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Act on ACTA now if you care about democracy and free speech
David Meyer, The Guardian
Online petitions:
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