[PiN-diskusjon] [Doctorow] Tomorrow is Britain's Convention on Modern Liberty, panel with Billy Bragg in London (fwd)

[Thomas Gramstad]

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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:54:45 +0000
From: Cory Doctorow <doctorow at craphound.com>
To: Thomas Gramstad <thomas at gramstad.no>
Cc: doctorow at ctyme.com
Subject: [Doctorow] Tomorrow is Britain's Convention on Modern Liberty,
    panel with Billy Bragg in London

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Tomorrow marks the first ever British Convention on Modern Liberty,
co-sponsored by The Guardian, OpenDemocracy, and Liberty. It's a
daylong, nationwide forum on the erosion of liberty, privacy and civil
rights in Britain. Boing Boing is a proud sponsor of the event, and I'll
be speaking at the closing plenary with Billy Bragg tomorrow afternoon
in London.

> We are entering a dangerous period in our country. Economic turmoil threatens profound hardship and disharmony. Disenchantment with politics is growing and even legitimate protest is threatened by an unprecedented programme of challenges to our rights, freedoms and democracy. Sixty years ago Britain was a proud co-author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Now it is increasingly centralized, abandoning its historic principles some of which date back to the Magna Carta.
> 
> The Governmentÿÿs continued stated determination to extend detention without charge in terrorism cases to 42 days is one symbol of the damage done to our hard-won rights and freedoms. The Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA), which gives hundreds of agencies access to peopleÿÿs records without their knowing, is another. The collection of all available records on a huge central database for the use of the authorities is a third.
> 
> We believe that such threats can be overcome but only if the public is woken to the dangers. While we may be impatient for action, the issues must be addressed in an open-minded way with as thorough and accessible public debate as possible.

The Convention on Modern Liberty:
http://www.modernliberty.net/

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