[Int-koordination] Stop TTIP/CETA/TPP/NAFTA Protests – worldwide – update (10.04.2014)

[Oliver Hinck <oliver.hinck AT piratenpartei-nrw.de>]

Stop TTIP/CETA/TPP/NAFTA Protests – worldwide – update (10.04.2014)

Useful links:
- the protestmap:
https://mapsengine.google.com/map/viewer?mid=z2_7kVjvOAF0.kJGmGBbsABbM
- the neutral protestwiki – pretty well developped:
https://stopttipprotest.wikia.com/
- the wiki page for making a demo location entry on the map:
https://stopttipprotest.wikia.com/wiki/Demo_location_entries_in_protestmap

First of all,

sry for not reacting so fast; I'm pretty busy. Just to end the delay:

- Zby, your suggestion for the “why we protest” clearly improved; now I don't
see any problems with it.

- Stuttgart is put on the protestmap 4 hours ago; thx 4 the advice...

- the doodle ended, the international demo day is fix since last weekend –
http://doodle.com/yx9zvpn767cvbtfz?locale=en : The international demo day
against TTIP & Co. will be on 15.05.2014, so in approximately 5 weeks, if you
didn't notice, yet...

- Brussels also is put on the protestmap, as they've planned to do a stopTTIP
demo on the 15.05., anyway (meaning the PAFTA group among Ben Borges –
http://www.pafta.eu/ ), so nice doodle result ^^ ...

- Düsseldorf will follow within the next days; on Friday I'm going to visit a 
RL
meeting of the pirates in Düsseldorf to make sure, that they will participate
-- the demo route in Düsseldorf will end at the NRW parliament; on the 15.05.
the NRW parliament has a big meeting; so we make use of it by making one of 
our
pirates in the NRW parliament come out then and hold a speech; probably from
every parliamentary group then someone will come outside to talk to the
demonstrants – so good timing regarding the date result also from this
perspective ^^

- going to RL meetings of local pirates and motivate them to start a stopTTIP
demo on the international demo day against TTIP & Co. is a very effective
approach, btw...

- So, currently we have 12 demo locations, spread across 5 countries; another
location clearly following by the end of this weekend.

- As we had to learn, making an international demo day by going to all groups
across the world at the same time is too optimistically planned nowadays;
so now we're doing it step by step: First making everything clear in one's
respective own country; as soon as all looks decent in one's own country, one
can switch into turning to the public stronger and hint them on the
map (so, message boards, twitter, Youtube-Videos, google+, RL, and so on =>
promises rising) hoping that this will motivate other countries to join or – 
the
ones, which are reserved right now – participate stronger; and then, as soon 
as
we finally have such an international network of demo locations, approaching
NGOs once again and ask them to participate... if we do it like this, the NGOs
won't have fear that the protest will be too small and
we focus our ressources where it makes sence...

- But you all don't need to wait on anyone, pirate movement, if you want to 
see
stopTTIP demos on the 15.05.2014 – just 7 to 10 days before EU elections 2014
(!) - well, then simply do so; noone is prohibiting you to do so ;) ...
-- and if you're not from the EU, don't feel not concerned; this day is not 
only
to demonstrate against TTIP, but also CETA, TPP, NAFTA, TRIPS etc. ; and if 
you
are not concerned by any of those international agreements,
then do solidarity demos for the people, who are concerned by those trade
agreements; you have to keep in mind: Making this international demo day BIG
probably is the biggest election help you can do for the EU pirate parties 
right
before the EU elections; and you know how crucial it is for all of us to enter
EU parliament with pirates ! This is our grande final !

- if you already have started a Facebook event page with promise opportunity 
to
your local demo, you can set the page open; no need to make it closed, so that
people outside of Facebook can't see what's going on inside ;) ...

- I'm going to work off the demo overview wiki pages for all countries now;
that's where anyone can entry details of the respective demo. I'm going to do
this by using templates, which result in yellow boxes on the wiki page;
if you want, you can edit the template of the respective country to translate 
it
– then the yellow boxes will be in the official language of your country. All
demos on the protestmap will get a link to their respective sections on the 
demo
overview pages.


Greetings,
/ aka Oliver



> "oliver.hinck" <oliver.hinck AT piratenpartei-nrw.de> hat am 31. März 2014 um
> 02:14 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> 3 very important things/news:
> 
> 1. Because a lot of people considered the 19th of april ("holy
> saturday/Easter")
> to be a bad date for the international demo day against TTIP & Co. the main
> active pirates of this initiative decided to postpone the demo day; the demo
> day
> will be within the timespan between end of april and mid of may; you decide 
> on
> what day exactly the demo day will be, and that by doodle. The pool will be
> open
> for 7 days. Please, please only do your entry shortly before the pool is
> closed
> (so, from sunday noon to sunday evening [06.04.2014]). The reason for this 
> is,
> that we don't want to scare NGOs away; we want to avoid, that an NGO goes 
> into
> the doodle and then sees that the doodle is flooded with pirate parties.
> Here's the link to the doodle; participate as an organization (example: 
> Pirate
> Party UK, Pirate Party Estonia, etc.):
> http://doodle.com/yx9zvpn767cvbtfz?locale=en .
> 
> 2. This is really a key moment of this initiative: Please as fast as 
> possible
> get in contact with all thinkable NGOs and bring them to vote on this pool, 
> as
> well. The more organizations get incorporated this way, the more 
> organizations
> will bear the initiative right from the beginning, and the stronger the
> initiative will be ! The very beginning of an initiative the chances are the
> best that an NGO is willing to participate.
> - For getting into contact with NGOs use a neutral e-mail account or twitter
> account, which doesn't make it obvious that you're pirates
> - prioritize NGOs, which are likely to participate at the international demo
> day
> against TTIP & Co. although in 2 months there will be elections in the EU - 
> so
> first of all head for NGOs, which are easy-going or beyond the EU.
> - You will find text templates for this networking task in the pad. They're
> individualized for each respective recipient; example: Regarding Occupy the
> addition in the title is "fight the back door deal of the 1 %" instead of
> "fight
> the ACTA zombies! (which is good for net politics NGOs)". In addition the
> explanation section of the cover letter offers space for individualizing:
> example: regarding the organization "March against Monsanto", last point,
> "The confrontation line is not USA VS EU, but the people VS major 
> corporations
> LIKE MONSANTO"
> For the link to the spread pad, go in our wiki and click on "getting
> connected":
> https://stopttipprotest.wikia.com
> 
> 3. Plz entry more demo locations of your place in the protestmap; for this 
> go
> to
> this page here -
> http://stopttipprotest.wikia.com/wiki/Demo_location_entries_in_protestmap -
> and
> entry 2 informaion:
> 1. Say where you're going to plan a demo (what city)
> 2. Additionally give a neutral link for further informations about the local
> demo; this can be a sub page of the wiki or a neutral facebook event page 
> with
> promise option (we can count all FB promises worldwide together by a 
> statistic
> web site)
> To do this third point is VERY IMPORTANT and VERY EASY - everyone can do it
> NOW
> - and it JUST TAKES LESS THAN 10 MINUTES.
> You don't need any concrete planning or exchange with other groups before
> doing
> this entry.
> The thing is this: What we're aiming at is, that by entries like the ones
> you're
> doing right after this e-mail, a rudimentary, international demo network is
> materializing on the protestmap; if we have this, ANYONE can start promoting
> the
> protestmap in all thinkable ways and so will lead masses of people to say 
> "oh
> cool ! Is something happening at my home town ? Oh, yeah ! Cool, there's a
> Facebook event page to the local demo at my home town, I will join it and
> promise to participate !" - but that only works like that, if YOU do your 
> bit
> to
> create this rudimentary international demo network. Right now there are 4
> countries participating and overall 7 demos - we can do better !
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> / aka Oliver