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Guys, ACTA does not go into effect tomorrow, nor is a vote happening tomorrow. While the petition on AccessNow is, I’m sure, an extremely impressive benchmark (100,000, guys, we did it!) we don’t need 100,000 signatures or 150,000 or whatever number they’ll adjust it to when they hit 150,000 (as they should, because they’re trying to drum up support, and numbers breed urgency.)
On Thursday, January 26th, 2012, the Polish government is planning to ratify ACTA. There were, as you might expect, protests—intense ones—and you should definitely contact your government if you are Polish. According to a member of the European Parliament, discussions on ACTA in the EU will start on the first of March, and while the EU did initially promise to ratify ACTA, severe doubts have been raised by EU committees. Continuing to quote Marietje Schaake, member of the European Parliament:
TL;DR: Important dates for ACTA in the European Parliament:
- 29 February/1 March: Discussion in international trade committee,
- April or May: Vote in international trade committee,
- 12, 13 or 14 June: Final vote in plenary (most important vote).Okay, that’s it! Please do consider signing the petition as this is still super important!
(via anygoddamnedcolleen)
Son Of ACTA (But Worse): Meet TPP, The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement→
Apparently, the US government has already indicated that it will not allow any form of weakening of intellectual property law for any reason whatsoever in this agreement. In fact, the USTR has directly said that it will only allow for “harmonizing” intellectual property regulations “strictly upwards,” meaning greater protectionism. Given the mounds of evidence suggesting that over protection via such laws is damaging to the economy, this is immensely troubling, and once again shows how the USTR is making policy by ignoring data. This is scary.
Excellent article on ACTA→
A lot of countries have already signed on. Many of the worst provisions were removed in the negotiation process - text is publicly available. Has NOT been submitted to US Senate for ratification, but is only (at least in the US) a nonbinding “executive agreement” - Europeans, however, can and should fight back. Canada apparently passed it already, as did Singapore, South Korea, Japan and Morocco.
BEFORE WE ALL FREAK OUT: A detailed explanation of the final ACTA via Reddit→
Things to note:
The United States has reportedly ALREADY SIGNED ACTA. According to this person’s interpretation of ACTA, the treaty does not create law; it only creates the opportunity to pass laws that will support it (which is still dangerous). Keep reading about ACTA and educating yourself with updated information. I’m not saying this piece from Reddit is absolutely correct, but I AM saying that we should read moar before we sign the multitude of online petitions demanding that the U.S. NOT sign the treaty (because it has apparently already happened). We shouldn’t immediately believe everything we read on the internet.
(Source: maybejustified, via fiddleyoumust)
Tesseral Harmonics: “Bisexual” is not oppressive, can we talk about biphobia and straight privilege? and other thoughts on bisexuality→
This topic has been discussed to death, and yet it continually comes up in tumblr discussion. So let me establish once and for all (I swear, I will never discuss this again) that “bisexual” is not an oppressive identity.
Bisexual is not binarist.
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This is LONG but worth the read.
-Jess
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