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Hi--
<p class="p1"> Together, we beat SOPA in a huge victory for internet
freedom. But this Saturday, internet freedom protests are
breaking out in over 200 cities across Europe<span class="s1">.</span>
Why? </p>
<p class="p2"> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fe3/3425153949/VEsH/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>Because the companies behind SOPA are
using international trade agreements as a backdoor to pass
SOPA-style laws</b></a></p>
<p class="p2"> SOPA's supporters are pushing two agreements: ACTA
and TPP<sup>1</sup>. ACTA would criminalize users, encourage
internet providers to spy on you, and make it easier for media
companies to sue sites out of existence and jail their founders.
Sound familiar?<b> </b>That's right, ACTA is from the same
playbook as SOPA, but global. Plus it didn't even have to pass
through Congress<sup>2</sup>.</p>
<p class="p2"> TPP goes even farther than ACTA, and the process has
been even more secretive and corrupt. Last weekend (we wish this
was a joke) <b>trade negotiators partied with MPAA (pro-SOPA)
lobbyists before secret negotiations in a Hollywood hotel, while
public interest groups were barred from meeting in the same
building.</b><sup>3</sup></p>
<p class="p2"> Trade agreements are a gaping loophole, a secretive
backdoor track that--even though it creates new laws--is miles
removed from democracy. Trade negotiators are unelected and
unaccountable, so these agreements have been <i>very</i> hard for
internet rights groups to stop.</p>
<p> But now the tide is turning. Fueled by the movement to stop
SOPA, anti-ACTA protests are breaking out across the EU, which
hasn't ratified ACTA. <b>The protests are having an
impact: leaders in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia have
backtracked on ACTA.</b><sup>4</sup> <u><span class="s1"><b>Now
a massive round of street protests in over 200 cities is
planned for this Saturday February 11th.</b></span></u></p>
<p class="p2"> We're planning an online protest this Saturday to
support the protests in the streets. Why? Because together we
can drive millions of emails to key decision makers--and start
tipping the scales like we did on SOPA.</p>
<p class="p2"> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fe0/3425153949/VEsE/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><span style="color:#1c73fc;"><b>Can you
take part? Click here to get the code to run on your site!</b></span></a></p>
<p class="p2"> We just built an ACTA & TPP contact tool, <span
class="s1">and it's not just a petition.</span> It's code for
your site that figures out the visitor's country and lets them
email all their Members of European Parliament--the politicians
who will be voting on ACTA in June--or the trade negotiators
behind TPP. <b>This direct contact between voters and their
officials, driven by websites of all sizes, was instrumental in
the fight against SOPA. </b><span class="s1"><b> </b></span></p>
<p class="p2"> We can use the same tactics to defeat ACTA & TPP,
but we need your help!</p>
<p class="p2" style="color: #1c73fc;"> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fe0/3425153949/VEsF/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>Support the street protests with a
flood of emails to the officials responsible for ACTA &
TPP. Get the code for your website!</b></a></p>
<p class="p2" style="color: #1c73fc;"> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fe3/3425153949/VEsC/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>Don't have a website? Tell officials
in your country to scrap ACTA & TPP! And spread the word
about Saturday's protests! </b></a></p>
<p class="p2"> This is going to be tough fight. But we need to make
secretive trade agreements harder to pass than US law. If we
don't, our internet's future belongs to the lobbyists behind SOPA.
</p>
<p class="p2"> This is just the beginning,</p>
<p class="p2"> --Holmes Wilson, Tiffiniy Cheng, Joshua Blount &
the whole Fight for the Future team.</p>
<p class="p2"> P.S. This <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fe1/3425153949/VEsD/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><span class="s2"><b style="color:
#1c73fc;">map of ACTA street protests in Europe</b></span></a>
is amazing. The largest has almost 50,000 RSVP's!</p>
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<p class="p2"> Sources:</p>
<p> 1. For more information on ACTA, read these excellent articles
from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fec/3425153949/VEsO/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>Techdirt</b></a> and <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fed/3425153949/VEsP/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>La Quadrature du Net</b></a>. For
information on TPP, read this <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fea/3425153949/VEsHBQ/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>Ars Technica</b></a> piece. For
video, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863feb/3425153949/VEsHBA/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>watch this</b></a>.</p>
<p> 2. Obama's signing of ACTA may have been unconstitutional. See <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fe8/3425153949/VEsHBw/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>Anti-counterfeiting agreement raises
constitutional concerns</b></a> and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fe9/3425153949/VEsHBg/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>Techdirt</b></a>.</p>
<p> 3. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fd6/3425153949/VEsHAQ/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>Hollywood gets to party with TPP
negotiators, public interest groups get thrown out of the
hotel.</b></a></p>
<p> 4. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://act.fightforthefuture.org/page/m/2e1f20ae/1d182024/706ab818/f863fd7/3425153949/VEsHAA/"
style="color: #1c73fc;"><b>Ars Technica: Czech, Slovak
governments backing away from ACTA, too.</b></a></p>
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