[spectre] Today - Berlin Demo Against Data Retention ... and Pirate "party" ...

[stephen kovats]

Dear Spectrites,

for anybody who happens be in Berlin today, (Saturday September 22)  
you may want to join the protest against government efforts to retain  
and network personal telecommunications data. Under the motto  
"Liberty instead of Fear" (Freiheit statt Angst) the protest  
organisers (the German Working Group on Data Retention) also hope to  
illustrate the growing problematic of 'data abuse' and legitimate  
concerns about the erosion of basic democratic and constitutional  
rights to individual privacy and freedom of movement.

http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/content/view/125/116/lang,en/

"Protest march in Berlin on Saturday, 22 September at 2.30 pm
Civil rights groups are calling on citizens to join in a protest  
march against excessive surveillance by businesses and governments.  
On 22 September 2007 concerned citizens will take to the streets, the  
motto being "Liberty instead of fear - Stop the surveillance mania!".  
We will meet at Pariser Platz (Brandenburger Tor) at 2.30 pm."


After the march, the German Pirate Party (www.pirantenpartei.de) will  
be celebrating its 1st anniversary, and invites anybody interested in  
their activities, which include securing privacy and data protection,  
government transparency, open access and non-commercial use and  
reproduction of digital material:

"Piratenpartei Birthday Celebration and 'Freiheit statt Angst' Demo  
Afterparty at C-Base Berlin beginning at 19.00"
with: djs alex, b1&doppel s (zwieback), pirat

location: C-Base, Rungestr. 20, Janowitzbrücke, Berlin

http://www.c-base.org/

http://www.piratenpartei.de/

http://berlin.piratenpartei.de/



cheers,

stephen


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