I speak only as a resident of Northern California, and a student of American politics.
Regardless of the concern, I suggest urgency. Trump will be quite favorable to corporate interests broadly, and unless a given issue can wait 2-4 years, the window for modest liberal consideration closes upon his inauguration. We tend to respond quickly to charismatic leaders in this country.
However, if you want to reach Mr. Trump, I suppose talking to libertarian or paleoconservative influencers might be useful.
On Friday, November 11, 2016, publicpolicy-request@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Send Publicpolicy mailing list submissions to publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:;
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to publicpolicy-request@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:;
You can reach the person managing the list at publicpolicy-owner@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:;
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Publicpolicy digest..."
Today's Topics:
- Re: Trump (Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov)
- Updating the Public Policy Portal: request for feedback. (Jan Gerlach)
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:16:51 +0100 From: Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov <dimitar.parvanov.dimitrov@gmail.com javascript:;> To: Publicpolicy Group for Wikimedia <publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:;> Subject: Re: [Publicpolicy] Trump Message-ID: <CAK4vM4TWxS+1U2uC5T=RSc7+b6Ud9= EfY8GSG09H+Ao6v8gD1A@mail.gmail.com javascript:;> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hi John,
I have been trying to wrap my head around this as well. From a European perspective I expect the US trade policy to drastically change, so that's one thing. TTIP seems highly unlikely now.
Weren't the republicans somewhat moreopen to copyright changes in general? Anyhow, I am in DC for OpenCon and would be greet to perhaps meet-up and discuss. John & Julia from WMDE are also in town and I know other Wikimedians will also be coming.
Cheers, Dimi
2016-11-10 0:19 GMT+01:00 John Sadowski <johnpsadowski@gmail.com javascript:;>:
Hi all,
I'd like to start a discussion—what implications does Trump's election combined with Republican dominance in Congress have for the movement's public policy efforts?
It would seem that, at the very least, net neutrality, intermediary safe-harbor, and perhaps the 2018 copyright expiration are at risk. I figure a proactive approach would be best—we should move fast to reach
out
to Congresspeople to make the effects of such legislation known to them before it gets introduced.
At Wikimedia DC we've visited Congressional staff in the past, and we could certainly do it again. What else can we do? What current WMF
policy
activities or connections can we extend? What are EFF and the policy
arms
of Google, Facebook, etc. thinking about right now?
Thanks. John
Publicpolicy mailing list Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:; https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy