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Re: [LUG] Fwd: [UKUUG-Announce] [Fwd: Update on pledge - 'create a standing order of 5 pounds per month to support an organisation that will campaign for digital rights in the UK' at PledgeBank.com]

 

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 10:29 am, Neil Williams wrote:
> On the subject of donations to protect our freedoms:

If you've got questions about the campaign and how it fits with other 
organisations see these sites:

http://flatline.org.uk/archives/000022.html
"You have to fight these issues in the press. There is no other way to do 
politics these days. It has to be done in soundbites. There has to be a 
counter to the "piracy" rhetoric. That counter-rhetoric has to get 
everywhere. The pro-lockdown side can afford to have someone in every public 
policy consultation, someone lobbying on every bill. We can do that but it's 
easier to coordinate one person working 40 hours a week than 100 people 
working 5 minutes a week. So therefore we should use the magic of money to 
consolidate that time into one person."

http://openrightsgroup.org/

They do now have the 1,000 but there's plenty of room for more.
(So that's a slush fund of at least £60,000pa.)

I think that is a significant achievement.

-- 

Neil Williams
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