Freedom Not Fear 2011/Brussels

Introduction

Some people wish to organize an opportunity, to let the responsible people in Brussels know, what kind of concerns we are carrying inside of our heads, as European Parliament and Commission go on with directives on telecommunication data retention and passenger data retention.

Status

We have this idea. Up to now it is not more than that ...

What?

We would like to offer something more than only have a from-the-heart-coming protest march around Brussels-highscrapers.

If anyhow possible we are looking for combining the protest-day with a kind of discussion- or lobby-day with politicians and bureaucrats responsible for the rules and directives, we're complaining on.

That should give us a chance to change thoughts and concerns in direct communication. And it could open minds and horizons about what happens in Brussels at all.

Let's see if that will work ...

When?

First thoughts of combining this with the demonstration in Berlin on September 10 had been dropped because we don't like to compete against that and some people liked to join both dates.

Therefore we chose the weekend afterwards around September 17 (Saturday).

Where? - protest-routes/proposals

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  Blanket map

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  Proposal 1

Use the blanket map to develop your own idea of a good way for the protest march and load it up here as a proposal.

Side-Ideas

• inviting politicians to join the protest march?
• open microphone: giving the people opportunity not for a long speech but for one or two sentences of their concers, why they are upset on data retention etc.

Whom? - proposals for people to meet on lobby-day

From the commission:

• Cecilia Malmström
• Reinhard Priebe
• Cecilia Verkleij
• Christian D'Cunha

From the parliament:

• Alexander Alvaro
• Jan Philipp Albrecht
• Birgit Sippel
• Martin Schulz
• Axel Voss
• Monika Hohlmeier
• Sophie In't Veld

Links

• Small Guide for "Privacy-Travellers" to Brussels (German)
• EU-Lobbying on Data Retention (English)
• How-To EU-Lobby (German)