[Netreach-L] Staying connected by being green

Wed May 13 05:10:06 BST 2009

Dear Jean

Many thanks indeed for your thoughtful and encouraging response! I Cc people
who will take heart!

In these times of 'crisis
<http://forumforstablecurrencies.wordpress.com/hit-by-the-crisis/the-crisis-
in-a-nutshell/> ', it's hard to know what remains worth doing, except
raising awareness about the various ways of systemic oppression, which means
understanding systems, rather than get stuck on content and definitions. 

For in the end, words such as in The Law don't even get respected any more:
the outcome of court cases is decided ahead of time, and lawyers have become
unethical.  

The only thing that counts is brute force, i.e. people who are 'just doing
their job': military, police, sheriffs. 

But information and virtual relationships will prevail! For 'they' who
control the systems, are only 1.7% of humanity. That's what I was told in
1981 by the late Bernard Benson who had contributed to Trident, but later in
life wrote The Peace Book which brought me to London. It comprises the
military, arms producers, politicians, scientists and financiers.

The net with 'virtual money' continues to be our only hope in these
'interesting' times.

With 'globally warm' regards,

Best wishes for your activities in spreading 'greenness'!

Sabine

 <http://3d-metrics.com/> 3D Metrics, Director

 <http://forumforstablecurrencies.info/> Forum for Stable Currencies,
Organiser and Promoter

21a Goldhurst Terrace

London NW6 3HB

T: 020 7328 3701

M: 07968 039 141

From: JeanLambert Office [mailto:office at jeanlambertmep.org.uk] 
Sent: 12 May 2009 18:36
To: sabine at 3d-metrics.com
Subject: Re: Letter from your constituent Sabine K McNeill

Dear Sabine,

Many thanks for your recent email expressing your concerns about the
Telecoms Package. 

As you may know, the Telecoms Package was voted on in the European
Parliament on 6 May 2009. I and my Green party colleagues are very strongly
committed to protecting the rights of internet users, and believe that
unrestricted access to the internet is an essential right for a functioning
information society, which should not be curbed simply at the whim of large
media firms. 

For this reason, the Greens re-tabled an amendment (originally amendment
138) to protect citizens' rights and prevent the arbitrary restriction of
internet access. We were delighted that this amendment was adopted in
plenary, which is a victory for citizens' rights. I, along with my Green
colleagues, have been very committed to this dossier, and requested a
re-ordering of the votes in plenary which led to the amendment, originally
tabled by German Green MEP, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, being adopted. For more
information please see the Greens press release:
http://www.greens-efa.org/cms/pressreleases/dok/284/284020.telecom_package@e
n.htm

Unfortunately, in another section of the Telecoms Package, the Harbour
report, the adopted definition of net neutrality was not good enough to
ensure that traffic Management Policies cannot be used for anti-competitive
purposes. Greens are committed to working hard on this issue in the next
legislature. All the amendments tabled by the Greens for the vote on the
Harbour report concerned citizens' rights. 

I would like to draw you attention to a public survey on the internet that
the European Commission DG Information Society
(http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/index_en.htm) will be launching in
the coming weeks. I encourage you to express your views there, because that
will be important in influencing future legislation in the field of online
content. 

If you have additional questions, please contact the Green group advisor in
charge of this dossier: laurence.vandewalle at europarl.europa.eu.

Yours sincerely,

Jean Lambert MEP

Green Party Member of the European Parliament for London

-----Original Message-----
From: Sabine K McNeill [mailto:sabine at 3d-metrics.com]
Sent: Wed 29/04/2009 6:19 PM
To: Jean Lambert
Subject: Letter from your constituent Sabine K McNeill

This message was also sent to: Robert Evans MEP, John Bowis OBE MEP,
Charles Tannock MEP, Claude Moraes MEP, Baroness Sarah Ludford MEP,
Gerard Batten MEP, Mary Honeyball MEP, Syed Kamall MEP

                                            Sabine K McNeill
                                            21a Goldhurst Terrace
                                            London
                                            NW6 3HB

                                            Email: sabine at 3d-metrics.com

                                            Wednesday 29 April 2009

Dear Robert Evans, Syed Kamall, Mary Honeyball, John Bowis OBE,
Baroness Sarah Ludford, Claude Moraes, Charles Tannock, Jean Lambert
and Gerard Batten,

If the following excerpt from the link given below is accurate, please
encourage all your MEP colleagues to vote against these rules.

The internet as we know it is at risk because of proposed new EU rules
going through at the end of April. Under the proposed new rules,
broadband providers will be legally able to limit the number of
websites you can look at, and to tell you whether or not you are
allowed to use particular services. It will be dressed up as 'new
consumer options' which people can choose from. People will be offered
TV-like packages - with a limited number of options for you to access.

It means that the Internet will be packaged up and your ability to
access and to put up content could be severely restricted. It will
create boxes of Internet accessibility, which don't fit with the way we
use it today. This is because internet is now permitting exchanges
between persons which cannot be controlled or "facilitated" by any
middlemen (the state or a corporation) and this possibility improves
the citizen's life but force the industry to lose power and control.
that's why they are pushing governments to act those changes.

Sharing your passion for the net,

Sabine

3D Metrics, Director
Forum for Stable Currencies, Organiser and Promoter

21a Goldhurst Terrace
London NW6 3HB

T: 020 7328 3701
M: 07968 039 141

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fundacja ICPPC"  <mailto:biuro at icppc.pl> <biuro at icppc.pl>
To:  <mailto:bapanvel at gmail.com> <bapanvel at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:08 PM
Subject: Don't let the EU parliament lock up the Internet!

> URGENT - VOTING IN EU PARLIAMENT 5th of MAY 2009
> >
http://www.wykop.pl/ramka/172206/warunkowy-dostep-do-internetu-glosuj-przeci
wko
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