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Dear Jon Davies,
We're running a free workshop near you on Wednesday June 20th to help you
learn about two key digital rights issues and practice lobbying your MP.
Join us and become a digital rights champion!
*Venue*: Resource for London, 356 Holloway Rd, London, N7 6PA
*Date and time*: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Find out more and sign up at the
Eventbrite<http://orglondontraining.eventbrite.com/>paget;page.
*What's happening?*
Open Rights Group needs your help to defeat the latest attacks on internet
freedom! We need to convince MPs that they should oppose new proposals for
more surveillance and censorship.
These training sessions will help you learn about two of the biggest
current digital rights issues. And we'll help you practice how to discuss
them with your MP. The training will last for around four hours. First we
will give you a good background briefing on the issues and an overview of
the campaigns. Then we will do some practical training on how to speak to
your MP, and cover other campaigning ideas too.
We'll be covering two big topics:
1. *The “Snoopers’ Charter”* - aka the Communications Data Bill - was
announced in the Queen's speech and is about to be published by the
government. The bill will create new powers to intercept and collect
information about who you talk to online. Your communications via Google,
Facebook or Skype will now be open to what may be a large number of
government officials. We want to see the powers to collect and access
communications data tightened up, not extended ever further.
2. *Internet censorship*. The government is considering whether Internet
Service Providers should have to block websites that contain 'adult
content' by default, with an 'opt out' for uncensored access. That would
mean an infrastructure of censorship that could, through mistakes, abuse or
mission creep, lead to more and more content being blocked for people in
the UK. Our
research<http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ourwork/reports/mobile-internet-…
mobile Internet censorship recently showed how often the wrong
websites
can be filtered, for example. We want to prevent this further move towards
private policing of the internet and free speech, and recommend better ways
to help parents manage their children's Internet access.
You can help stop these proposals. And we are here to help you! You don't
need any previous knowledge of the issues or experience talking with your
MP.
Find out more and sign up at the Eventbrite
page.<http://orglondontraining.eventbrite.com/>
We're also running similar events around the country. Tell your friends!
- Edinburgh <http://orgedinburghtraining.eventbrite.com>, Saturday, 23
June
- Manchester <http://orgmanchestertraining.eventbrite.com/>, Wednesday,
27 June
- Sheffield <http://bit.ly/orgshefcst>, Thursday, 28 June
- Birmingham <http://orgbirminghamtraining.eventbrite.com/>, Wednesday,
4 July
- Bristol <http://orgbristoltraining.eventbrite.com/>, Saturday, 7 July
Thank you,
Jim Killock
Executive Director
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