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Date: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 3:02 PM<br>Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: (The Trans-Pacific Partnership) Urgent: It's happening now behind our back<br>To: <a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a><br>
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Date: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 2:53 PM<br>Subject: (The Trans-Pacific Partnership) Urgent: It's happening now behind our back<br>To: <br><br><br><div dir="ltr">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve Anderson</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@openmedia.org" target="_blank">contact@openmedia.org</a>></span><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">Date: Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:25 AM<br>
Subject: Urgent: It's happening now behind our back<br><br><br>
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<p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:small"><a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YVCXcZkCU7gvtAwI9X2bXZsqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank"><img src="http://action.openmedia.ca/images/StopSecrecy_210x100_150414.png" alt="" align="middle" border="0" width="210"></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:-webkit-auto"><span style="font-size:small"> President Obama is holding secret meetings in Asia to ram through the TPP’s Internet censorship plan, which would force ISPs to <b>monitor our Internet use, censor content, and remove entire websites. </b><a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=crJEWv3rYPpbGJCKTLlpspsqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank"></b><b>To fight back we need your help to project an attention-grabbing message on key buildings in Washington D.C. Tell decision-makers to stop the secretive TPP now so we can deliver the message before it’s too late.</a> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AQ%2BiSRiQPM%2Fzm9hWjVTv0psqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank"></span><span style="font-size:small"><img src="http://action.openmedia.ca/images/TakeAction.png" alt="Take action!" align="middle" border="0" height="50" width="200"></a></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:small">This is urgent. </span></b><span style="font-size:small"><a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7pfe2JxVv5ZkVD%2BnXePEoZsqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank"></b><b>An Internet censorship plan is being finalized in secret meetings right now. We need all hands on deck at this crucial moment. Click HERE to learn more and speak up. </a></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:small">Here’s the situation:</span></b><span style="font-size:small"> Obama himself is in secretive meetings with key political figures and lobbyists in Asia to lock the Trans-Pacific Partnership’s Internet censorship plan into place. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">We know from leaked documents that this secretive plan will censor your use of the Internet and strip away your rights.<sup>1</sup> If finalized, this plan would <b>force ISPs to act as “Internet Police” monitoring our Internet use, censoring content, and removing whole websites.</b><sup>2</sup></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">The TPP is the greatest threat the Internet faces today. Sid, as one of our strongest supporters, we’re relying on you to stand up and help us defend the values of Internet openness, affordability, and accessibility we hold dear. Powerful old media lobbyists are terrified of the transformative potential of the Internet; that’s why they’re using the TPP to drag us backward. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">It will give media conglomerates centralized control over what you can watch and share online. </span></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:small"><a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UCHwsU68my%2FJvEzVXuKoOPpGxDO5gAKu" target="_blank">We urgently need your help to fight back. Add your voice right now and we’ll project a Stop the Secrecy message on key buildings in Washington D.C. to ensure Obama, the media, and everyone else knows this censorship plan must be stopped. </a></span></b><span style="font-size:small"><a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=n2rZPEbB29s8TYqSQHSbYJsqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank"></a></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:small">This is huge:</span></b><span style="font-size:small"> covering 40% of the global economy, the TPP is being called a legal “blueprint” for the rest of the world.[3] Once key leaders finalize TPP Internet censorship plans today it will be used to globalize censorship across the world. <a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FAS0DkW8Jbvn8%2BIRENLCs5sqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank">You will be affected and this may be our only chance to stop it. </a></span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:small">Our attention-grabbing message will shine a light on their secret plan and will make clear to Washington lobbyists that the Internet community will never accept the TPP’s secrecy or censorship. The more who speak out, the larger our projection will become, and the more people we can reach. </span></b></p>
<p style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:small"><a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JE88wrLQkVvvu4v75WIx4psqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank">This is a decisive moment: we need to act right now. Join with hundreds of thousands of people all over the world to shine a light on the TPP’s job-killing Internet censorship plan. Let’s send decision-makers and the lobbyists pulling the strings a message they can’t ignore: "Stop the secrecy now."</a></span></b><span style="font-size:small"><a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=61Hn7sUMN5HfkF1IF6QKZ5sqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank"> </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">With every voice that is added to our call, a donor will contribute to <b>make Stop The Secrecy projection in Washington bigger and brighter.</b> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">We’ve stalled them before and we can kill this censorship plan if we act together at this critical moment. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">The bureaucrats and lobbyists think they can ram through this damaging binding plan behind your back and without your consent. <a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=P1BHddzI3ZI0kiJb4HiPrJsqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank"></b><b>Will you let them get away with it, Sid? </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">Thank you for being a part of history, </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">Steve, Josh, Eva, and David, on behalf of your OpenMedia.org team </span></p>
<p><i><span style="font-size:small">P.S., If the TPP censorship plan goes through, the Internet as we know it will change forever. We’d be left with an Internet that’s far more expensive, censored, and policed. We know we can stop this - but we need to act right now. </span></i><span style="font-size:small"><a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=z9q1A5pKsLaekLedwzMzY5sqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank"></i><i>Can we count on you to stand with us, Sid? </a></span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:small">Footnotes</span></b><span style="font-size:small"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">[1] “Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).” Source: <a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rXdF1FveW0vQ4WXW7D8JnpsqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank">WikiLeaks</a>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">[2] TPP Creates Legal Incentives For ISPs To Police The Internet. What Is At Risk? Your Rights. Source: <a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=P5vhGY7iAA7T3hA41u08NpsqhQBLlsmu" target="_blank">Electronic Frontier Foundation </a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:small">[3] U.S. “Bullying” TPP Negotiators Amid Failure to Agree. Source: <a href="http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1pXZyOvAcZ7TtxcKKMKT8fpGxDO5gAKu" target="_blank">Inter Press Service News Agency</a>. *Note: The U.S. and the E.U. are already discussing a similar secretive agreement called "Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)". Once the TPP is finalized there will be pressure to harmonize and extend its provisions to TTIP -- meaning the E.U. There are also reports of several others countries being added to the TPP once it is finalized.</span></p>
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