[Chapter-delegates] Tomorrow Hearing on SOPA in U.S. House of Representatives

[Eric Burger]

Welcome to America!

On Nov 15, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Veni Markovski wrote:

> Eric,
> in many European countries, you can't just "show up" for a hearing at the Parliament. In Bulgaria you need to be "invited", only by a member of the parliament (MP). You need to give an ID, they will photograph you, and take any personal data they consider "important". You will have a pass to enter and exit the parliament. In other parliaments, you might even have an escort. You won't be able to go and "see" your representative, unless you have scheduled appointment with him/her. You won't be able to see their staffers, as their staff is never at the office of the MP.
> In some countries, they may consider you crazy, and put you in a hospital, if you insist to see your MP.
> What exists in the US Congress, is far, far away from the rest of the world.
> 
> Marcin,
> you might be able to watch this online. Also - connect with Mike Nelson, who is organizing an event with ISOC-DC on that subject (SOPA; btw, sopa in Bulgarian, and may be Turkish, means a bludgeon - I find this quite amusing).
> 
> veni
> 
> On 11/15/2011 15:40, Eric Burger wrote:
>> Invited as in be a witness? You need to get connected to one of the committee member's legislative assistants.
>> 
>> Invited to watch? Just show up. Show up and make sure to tweet & blog about it. Make sure you let your Representative know how you feel about SOPA. E-mail is now the best way to communicate with them. See http://www.house.gov/representatives/ to find yours.
>> 
>> If we are lucky, the hearing will be on C-SPAN radio (90.1MHz in DC; Listen to C-SPAN Radio <javascript:void(window.open('http://den-a.plr.liquidcompass.net/player/flash/audio_player.php?id=WCSPFM&uid=346',%20'WCSPFM',%20'width=680,height=511,%20status=no,resizable=no,scrollbars=no'));> on the web).
>> 
>> On Nov 15, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
>> 
>>> http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_11162011.html
>>> 
>>> Witness List
>>> Maria Pallante
>>> Register of Copyrights
>>> U.S. Library of Congress
>>> 
>>> John Clark
>>> Chief Security Officer and VP of Global Security
>>> Pfizer
>>> 
>>> Michael O'Leary
>>> Senior Executive Vice President
>>> Global Policy and External Affairs
>>> MPAA
>>> 
>>> Linda Kirkpatrick
>>> Group Head
>>> Customer Performance Integrity
>>> MasterCard
>>> 
>>> Katherine Oyama
>>> Policy Counsel
>>> Google
>>> 
>>> Paul Almeida
>>> President
>>> Dept. of Professional Employees
>>> AFL-CIO
>>> 
>>> What's ISOC position in this?
>>> What does it take to be invited to a hearing?
>>> 
>>> //Marcin
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