STOP ACTA: things you can do right now
This document and video presentation outlines steps you can take right now to help put a stop to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which poses a serious threat to our freedom and national sovereignty. For additional information and links on ACTA, please click here.
We need a new approach, whereby we take back government from the elite’s stooges and appointees – grassroots campaigns whereby we go to visit our Local Members with a carefully prepared plan, limited to a maximum of ten point plan to tell them why we find something unacceptable. What I mean is don’t go in with voluminous documents except as reference documents. Let the politicians know that this reference material is not part of the presentation.
The Most Effective Strategy is to actually visit your Local MP in person to make representations as to why we should not ratify ACTA.
How to find your Local Federal MP
If you are unsure in which electorate you reside, then, try visiting the Australian Electoral Commission Website at http://apps.aec.gov.au/esearch/.
in order to ascertain this information.
What to Do About Getting an Appointment
Ring your Local Federal MP’s office and make an appointment to see them. Suppose that you are told that they are unable to see you, then, don’t be deterred, ask to see the appropriate member of their staff.
Prepare a Ten Point Plan
Do not go into visit your Local MP with a voluminous document complaining about ACTA because it will not be read! Instead prepare a careful ten point plan that sets out the problems with ACTA in summary but do make sure that you reference every point and do take in the reference material with you. If your MP, or their staff member asks for a copy of this or access to this reference material, then, give them a copy.
Do be polite but let your Local Member know that you are very concerned about the impact that ACTA will have on our society and that you are only prepared to support a candidate who will vote against ACTA being implemented.
Politics is a numbers’ game!
If every electorate in Australia receives ten visits, then, that will be sufficient to let our politicians know that we don’t want ACTA ratified. Not many politicians have a death wish and visits of this magnitude will convince them that the policy is not only unpopular but that supporting it is political suicide. Get your friends to do likewise. Make this information go viral! Urge everyone on your email contacts’ list to do the same.
ACTA 10 Point Plan – Point Form Only
Download the FULL 10 POINT PLAN: click here
- The Stated Aims of ACTA do not stand up to scrutiny
- There is no necessity for ACTA as there are already remedies available for breach of copyright and Trade Mark violations
- ACTA makes it possible to bypass the judicial system of this country
- If a warrant is issued against someone in your household then every computer in your place will be seized
- ACTA provides for a custodial sentence for the unauthorized copying of cinematographic films: This is manifestly excessive!
- ACTA necessitates the Principle of Excessive Surveillance
- ACTA will make criminals out of an estimated 25% of Net users
- The Claims about Net Piracy Are Flawed
- We do not know how foreign law is to apply as regards extradition?
- ACTA was negotiated in secret with public consultation
- The Dirty Secret of the Copyright Lobby is that is that the very people who are trying to make criminals of those who upload or download copyright material are the very same people who have made a fortune out of file sharing software!
- ACTA may well prevent you getting the vitamins, minerals and alternative medicine you want
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ACTA may well prevent you watching sport when you want to watch sport
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By Hereward Fenton on 2012 03 10 - 07:55:16
Excellent work and thanks for the point form summary!
Occupy Hobart has been campaigning against the TPPA since January and ACTA for over a month now.
http://www.occupy-hobart.org
So far we have been in contact with the Federal MPs Andrew Wilkie and Christine Milne. We have documented their responses on our Wiki :-
http://www.occupy-hobart.org/wiki/doku.php?id=tppa_responses
Andrew Wilkie’s responce includes a report from the parliamentary library (Attached to the Wiki)
Our plan is to keep contacting more MPs and to document their responses to the public.
Also Christine Milne is running an on-line petition to make the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement text public.
http://christine-milne.greensmps.org.au/content/petition/make-trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-text-public
They need another 400 signatures to reach the target at the time of writing.
Keep up the good work!
By Mike on 2012 03 10 - 14:38:23
National standard legislation introduction soon.
By OZE on 2015 05 13 - 15:46:03
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