[GTALUG] Fwd: Your chance to speak out against the TPP in person

[David Collier-Brown]

I'm on the mailing list for openmedia, and they posted this invitation 
to the first-come-first-served petitioning period at the Toronto 
consultation.

I'm going to go over my old submissions about DRM schemes harming the 
book business and make a written submission.

--dave


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Subject: 	Your chance to speak out against the TPP in person
Date: 	Wed, 11 May 2016 08:15:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	Soledad Vega <contact at openmedia.org>
Reply-To: 	contact at openmedia.org
To: 	davecb at spamcop.net



OpenMedia

Hi David,

I’m Soledad, OpenMedia’s Community Engagement Specialist, and I wanted 
to update you about an important development that will give you the 
opportunity to take part in Parliament’s consultations about the 
Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in Toronto.

As you may know, Parliament’s trade committee has been travelling across 
the country holding in-person hearings on the TPP.^1 ^2 In response to 
the limited public participation seen at the first few hearings,^3 the 
committee will now include one hour for public comment in each meeting. 
*This is your chance to participate.*

We know the TPP will strip us of our democratic rights and threaten the 
open Internet. That’s why *it’s so important that Canadians like 
yourself turn up in numbers at the trade committee’s upcoming hearings.*

This Friday May 13 (that’s right, two days from now), the committee will 
be in Toronto, and we need to show decision-makers Canadians don’t want 
this deal.

*Our friends at Unifor are organizing a protest for 10am, right outside 
the hearings at the Carlton Ritz Hotel.* If you can show up on 
Friday,**you will also be able to use the public engagement hour to tell 
the committee why you oppose the TPP, and give a voice to thousands of 
others like yourself. Here are the details:

*When*: Friday, May 13

*Where:* Carlton Ritz Hotel, 181 Wellington Street West, Toronto,

*Protest:* Be there for 10am!

*Public engagement hour: *11:45am-12:45pm

*Facebook event* 
<http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=D52i764Tf2%2F7nKeLqB2gmFibB%2Fll5DIu>

Speaking slots for the public engagement hour will be handed out on a 
first-come-first-served basis, *so be sure to arrive early to ensure 
you’ll be enabled to speak.*

If you are planning to attend and/or you want to stay in the loop, use 
this Facebook event 
<http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zXRMEXuTfrcbFlAd1yXWtlibB%2Fll5DIu> 
to RSVP and stay in touch with others planning to come.

These consultations are our last best chance to force our elected 
representatives to listen. If you can, make sure you attend. You’ll be 
doing the Internet a huge favour.

With gratitude,

–Soledad, on behalf of your OpenMedia team

/P.S: If you’ve yet to do so, don’t forget to send your message about 
the TPP directly to Parliament’s trade committee, your MP, and Trade 
Minister Chrystia Freeland using our tool at //https://LetsTalkTPP.ca/ 
<http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kO4rrKxdMpGhmtJul431HaGDv%2BUeJaT9>/./

*Footnotes*

[1] Consulting Canadians on the Trans-Pacific Partnership 
<http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Fyo8j7I3kYCVh%2FVWVHO2yFibB%2Fll5DIu>. 
Source: Government of Canada

[2] We Made it Happen: Your Voices on a Jumbotron outside the TPP 
Hearings 
<http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FW%2BDT0eZeOBEzDnRjWFkwVibB%2Fll5DIu>. 
Source: OpenMedia

[3] I went. I saw. I cried for what counts as ‘public consultation’. 
<http://qb.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4mF4HfvCDw9BZHu%2BoPZ5C6GDv%2BUeJaT9> 
Source: OpenMedia

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