Hi folks, If any of you have a 1/2 hour to spare today at 2:30 please meet some CUUG members at Jim Prentice's Open House to present a protest to the proposed new Canadian copyright law.
For details see http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/07/canadians-tomorrow-i.html Open house is at: Jim Prentice Constituency Office Suite 105 1318 Centre St NE Calgary, Alberta T2E 2R7 Greg -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roy Brander Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 10:49 AM To: public Calgary UNIX talk Subject: Re: [CalgaryUNIX] Jim Prentice and proposed new copyright legislation I just saw this on slashdot myself. I have a crowded schedule today (my father's arriving by air ambulance from the states with a collapsed lung at 4) but I'm trying to think how I could squeeze into the 2:30-3:00 period at the end of Prentice's "open house" to go confront him. Can anybody join me? The psychological impact of several people going there, delivering a polite but curt and forceful message and then all walking out together would be much, much larger than one person doing it alone. One person is a crank, several are a political message. Proposed text: "Mr. Prentice, my companions and I are all members of the Calgary Unix Users Group, basically an organization of mostly middle-aged computer professionals that operate and program the kind of servers that run large corporations and the Internet itself. As members of the high-tech industry, we have been monitoring the copyright debate for over a decade now and we are all convinced that most industry-backed copyright legislation is bad for the industry itself. The same kind of people opposed radio 80 years ago because it 'gave away free music' and the VCR 25 years ago when Jack Valenti infamously described it as being to Hollywood what the Boston Strangler was to women. Your proposed legislation could easily damage both hi-tech and artistic content industries alike as much as the proposed laws against VCRs and radio would have if legislators of those times had been foolish enough to enact them. We see it as our duty as citizes, therefore, tto let you know that if anything remotely resembling this legislation is passed by this government that we will have to cast aside all our former political preferences in favour of ending conservative party rule. We are not talking about changing our votes. We are talking about donating to your opponents, fund-raising for your opponents, working for your opponents. Your own seat here in Calgary is no-doubt safe, so we as rational engineers will of course devote our efforts to seats where the conservative party is weakest. We don't have any questions, those are all amply answered by the reading we have already done. We just wanted to let you know." Then we turn and walk out. Come on, can anybody else come? _______________________________________________ CalgaryUNIX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/calgaryunix _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
