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[Katitza Rodriguez]

It is important that international civil society speaks up! The more the 
merrier.

On 6/10/13 4:02 AM, Norbert Bollow wrote:
> McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
>> <suresh at hserus.net> wrote:
>>> Not you perhaps. As a us citizen and through his congressman and
>>> senator mctim is entitled to ask that anything at all be repealed.
>>> Of course whether or not it will be is another story
>>>
>>> The caucus doesn't have any locus standi in this
>> Agreed, and as CS there are US folks who work in this area (EFF, EPIC,
>> etc) who can carry the ball for CS.
> While of course in any effective campaign on this issue, those US CS
> orgs will likely have a pivotal role, OF COURSE international civil
> society has every moral right (and IMO even a moral duty) to speak up.
>
> What this Caucus needs to do is to get organized in a way that empowers
> international civil society to speak up effectively and legitimately
> even while there are those who are seeking to prevent that from
> happening.
>
> Greetings,
> Norbert
>


-- 
Katitza Rodriguez
International Rights Director
Electronic Frontier Foundation
katitza at eff.org
katitza at datos-personales.org (personal email)

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