Building Effective Alliances around the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

My talk on building activism around the TPP at LinuxConf 2013 is now online - thanks to the AV team for all of their hard work, and for catching me to re-record the talk when they discovered the first recording had gone awry. You can listen to the full talk here [mp4 on the linux … Continue reading Building Effective Alliances around the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Upcoming presentations: Building Effective Alliances around the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Early next year I'll be discussing strategies for opposing the TPPA at Linux Conference Australia, in Perth: This presentation suggests a variety of strategies and tactics that the Linux community might adopt when acting on political issues, with the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) being of particular concern at the moment. The TPPA is a … Continue reading Upcoming presentations: Building Effective Alliances around the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Putting the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement into context

There's been a lot of excitement among digital liberties types about the TPPA recently, as the US IP proposals were leaked last week. There's an excellent analysis by Kim Weatherall over at LawFont, more analysis over at techdirt, and some opposition starting up by groups like the Pirate Party and EFA. Most of these activists … Continue reading Putting the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement into context