[free-sklyarov] Re: [nylug-talk] New York rally a success!!

[Leonid Gorkin]

Just an idea -- why don't we organize a rally close to the stock exchange, 
under the slogan:

"ADBE -- sell, sell, sell!!!"

Hit it where it hurts, huh?


On Monday 23 July 2001 04:22 pm, Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO wrote:
> I could use a report on the protest for www.nyfairuse.org, if someone wants
> to write it.  Images are at
>
> http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/protest_images/
>
>
> Next week I call a meeting to organize a lobby to repeal the DMCA.
>
> Ruben
>
> > At 03:36 PM 7/23/01 -0400, Leonid Gorkin wrote:
> > >We had about 30 people in front of New York Public Library. Rally
> > > continued for about 2 1/2 hours. We had several signs, and distributed
> > > about 2000 flyers. Some people stopped to discuss the issue with us. 
> > > New York Times reporters were there and talked with several protesters.
> > > Unfortunatelly, we were completely ignored by all TV media. I guess
> > > they had more interesting things to report
> >
> > Congrats, and sorry I couldn't make it.
> > The public library makes a great backdrop for a protest against those who
> > would keep us from reading its books.
> >
> > On that note, has anyone contacted the American Library Association?  The
> > librarians have been on the right side in fighting the DMCA, giving good
> > amicus briefs in Universal v. Reimerdes and comments in the Register of
> > Copyright's rulemaking.  They realize their custody of public knowledge
> > is threatened when owning a copy of a work doesn't give you an unfettered
> > right to read it.
> >
> >  From time to time, I get updates from their Washington office with the
> > following contact info:
> >
> > ALA Washington Office, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Suite 403,
> > Washington, D.C. 20004-1701; phone: 202.628.8410 or 800.941.8478
> > toll-free; fax: 202.628.8419; e-mail: alawash at alawash.org; Web
> > site: http://www.ala.org/washoff.
> >
> > --Wendy
> >
> > >You can see the pictures from the protest, fresh and completely
> > > unedited, at:
> > >
> > >http://umklaydet.com/nyc
> > >
> > >Thanks to everybody who came to the rally and all people who supported
> > > us! This is just a first step!
> > >
> > >-- Leonid
> >
> > --
> > Wendy Seltzer -- wendy at seltzer.com
> > Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
> > http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/seltzer.html