How to Act against the Council's Fishy Patent Tactics

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The FFII is trying to mobilise its supporters to contact politicians and media to prevent the Council decision and/or get the Parliament's Restart project on track. Supporters are also asked to support the campaign by web banners and/or strike pages. This is being organised by the Webdemo Team (fish0501-help at ffii org). In case you want to help, here are some entry points. By its surprise tactic of inserting an A-item in the last minute, the Council/Commission of course makes this difficult.

Addresses to Write To

• Ministers of Agriculture & Fishery

• Search for german national MP

• For Holland: procedure seemingly was pushed by Economic Affairs, direct phone number

• List of Members of the European Parliament. Includes email address for some.

(add more stuff here, it's a wiki)

Translations

• Spanish translation of letter

• German texts and background

• French texts and background

• Spoedactie landbouwraad Dutch press release

(add more stuff here, it's a wiki)

Webdemo Organisation

• The procedure for organizing this web demo/banner campaign:

• The FFII has covered its front page with a letter to EU ministers of agriculture and is relaunching a webdemo and banner campaign of last December, in which it called on its supporters to help draw attention to the matter.

Find the latest banners at:

• The ffii main webdemo banner page

• Some more images and additional stuff at the kwiki WebDemo page

If you like to create a banner yourself:

• You can use the fish images created by Anja Gerwinski:

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• Or the Harmonization sxd picture. You can just copy the object pieces.

• Take fish pix from xfishtank

To Do

• blasum: write to all our supporters (not only german ones, but the german template can be used)

• list pointers to people to whom supporters could write, with explanations. These pointers should be listed on this page (FishDemo0501En). Many already exist.

• translate/update the frontpage letters for various languages. Do this by downloading the source from http://www.ffii.org/index.en.html or another language, editing it and sending it to fish0501-help at ffii org (installed in /var/www/adm/etc/aliases.src/)