Alejandro:<div><br></div><div>This is a great video. Thanks for the link. I am planning to share it with our chapter members.</div><div><br></div><div>-ed</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:17 AM, Dr. Alejandro Pisanty Baruch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:apisan@unam.mx">apisan@unam.mx</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Narelle,<br>
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this may sound unpleasant to you but... you are a Tustee, we are humble volunteers disconnected from the general strategy of ISOC.<br>
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Many of us are under pressure from Chapter members and others in our local communities to join the protest and are seen as sitting on our hands upon a block of dry ice because we are waiting for guidance from HQ.<br>
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IF the Board of Trustees is not discussing the matter as urgent - and being a former Trustee I know this can happen - and IF nobody else at "the top" has a word about the general strategy of ISOC for these fast-happening reactions, can we understand that each chapter is free to react, and will not cause even a frown from the PR apparatus of ISOC?<br>
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You may find further guidance in the word of our Chair, Raul Echeberria, in <a href="http://mexico.cnn.com/videos/2012/01/13/el-contenido-de-la-ley-sopa" target="_blank">http://mexico.cnn.com/videos/2012/01/13/el-contenido-de-la-ley-sopa</a>. No mention of ISOC is made, though, and he appears only as CEO of LACNIC (in Spanish).<br>
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I'm really really sorry if I appear as a nuisance. There's just an urgency to make decisions - joining the blackout is less than 24 hours away for some like... you!<br>
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Yours,<br>
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Alejandro Pisanty<br>
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Dr. Alejandro Pisanty<br>
UNAM, Av. Universidad 3000, 04510 Mexico DF Mexico<br>
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*Mi blog/My blog: <a href="http://pisanty.blogspot.com" target="_blank">http://pisanty.blogspot.com</a><br>
*LinkedIn profile: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/pisanty</a><br>
*Unete al grupo UNAM en LinkedIn, <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/22285/4A106C0C8614</a><br>
*Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/apisanty" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/apisanty</a><br>
---->> Unete a ISOC Mexico, <a href="http://www.isoc.org" target="_blank">http://www.isoc.org</a><br>
Participa en ICANN, <a href="http://www.icann.org" target="_blank">http://www.icann.org</a><br>
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Enviado el: lunes, 16 de enero de 2012 23:56<br>
Hasta: ISOC Chapter Delegates<br>
Asunto: [Chapter-delegates] English Wikipedia going dark tomorrow!<br>
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This looks like a strong protest!<br>
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Thoughts anyone?<br>
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To: English Wikipedia Readers and Community<br>
From: Sue Gardner, Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director<br>
Date: January 16, 2012<br>
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the<br>
English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC<br>
on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia<br>
Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation<br>
in the United States—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House<br>
of Representatives, and the PROTECTIP Act (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate—that,<br>
if passed, would seriously damage the free and open Internet, including<br>
Wikipedia.<br>
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This will be the first time the English Wikipedia has ever staged a public<br>
protest of this nature, and it’s a decision that wasn’t lightly made.<br>
etc at<br>
<a href="http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout" target="_blank">http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_anti-SOPA_blackout</a><br>
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More info on SOPA:<br>
Try our Harvard colleague (Jonathan Zittrain and BoT member) who is<br>
actively working on this topic:<br>
<a href="http://futureoftheinternet.org/sopa-compromise" target="_blank">http://futureoftheinternet.org/sopa-compromise</a><br>
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and him on Colbert talking about it:<br>
<a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111202/09361816954/colbert-takes-sopa.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111202/09361816954/colbert-takes-sopa.shtml</a><br>
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Cheers<br>
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N<br>
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Narelle Clark<br>
President<br>
Internet Society of Australia<br>
ph: 0412 297 043<br>
int ph: <a href="tel:%2B61%20412%20297%20043" value="+61412297043">+61 412 297 043</a><br>
<a href="mailto:president@isoc-au.org.au">president@isoc-au.org.au</a><br>
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