[free-sklyarov] A humble telephone protest suggestion

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Would calling the US embassy for those out of US help?

TAA

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Tony Abou-Assaleh                           
Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G1
Office:  DC2503
Phone:   (519) 888-4567 Ext. 3399
Email:   taa at acm.org
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Benjamin Krueger wrote:

> Telephone Protest Proposal
> July 27th, 2001
> 
> 	This is a really easy, yet effective protest, and even folks at work can
> manage to participate. Essentially, we should choose one day and time
> designated for calling your 2 congressional representatives, and the US
> Attorney's Office.
> 
> 	The really important part here is voicing your concern to your
> representatives in as visible a way as possible, and large numbers of voting 
> constituants taking the time to make a telephone call will rouse their
> attention. Under 18 folks should call too. Just because you can't vote right
> now doesn't mean you won't be able to vote in a couple years. (You are going
> to register to vote when you turn 18, right?)
> 
> 	I would suggest starting such a protest at 10am your local time. Your
> representatives' offices will just be starting their day, and a large call
> volume will turn a lot of heads. I'd suggest the same time (10am PST) for 
> calls to the US Attorney's office in San Fransisco. If the line is busy, hang
> up and try again until you get a person! Obviously if you can't call at
> exactly the designated time, try and call sometime that day. Any phone call is
> better than no phone call at all.
> 
> 	Somebody may also want to write some scripts (the acting kind, not the
> perl kind!) that folks can use when they call. For your representatives, I 
> would suggest stressing your concern over the DMCA, and the fact that it is 
> now being used to repress valid research and violates citizen's rights. For 
> the US Attorney, I would suggest a script that emphasizes your concern that 
> they are acting in an innappropriate manner, that they are violating Dmitry's 
> rights by not providing due process in an expediant manner according to the 
> law, and possibly that they are violating international treaties on the 
> handling of foreign citizens accused of crimes. I don't know if the last is 
> true, although I suspect as much. As far as I've been able to read, the 
> Russian consolate has not been able to visit Dmitry. It is definately 
> something that warrents further research.
> 
> 	Of course, as always, be polite on the phone. You will be talking to an
> operator who likely has no clue about these issues, and you want to leave as
> good an impression as possible. Threats and cursing don't win followers. Make
> sure you mention that you are a constituent of the representative; they will
> probably ask for your name and address, or at least your address, to make
> sure. Don't call representatives who don't represent you. It won't help, and
> will only make the entire cause look bad.
> 
> 	A protest like this should be able to rally thousands of people per
> representative. The turnouts for the in person picketting protests were great,
> but we should be able to get a far greater number when all thats involved are
> 3 simple phone calls. 
> 
> 
> House of Representatives lookup. This has a link to your Representative's
> homepage, which should have the phone numbers of their home and DC offices.
> http://www.house.gov/writerep/
> 
> Senators of the 107th Congress. This has links to your Senator's homepage.
> http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm
> 
> The US Attorney's office should be able to be found on:
> http://www.usdoj.gov or http://www.usdoj.gov/cgi-bin/phonebook/db.cgi
> 
> 
> Benjamin Krueger
> roo at ufies.org
> Seattle, Wa
> 
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