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Early day motion about Indymedia

manos | 21.10.2004 14:22 | FBI Server Seizure | Repression

An early day motion has been submitted to parliament about the Indymedia server seizure.

EDM 1750

FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND INDYMEDIA 15.10.04
Jeremy Corbyn
Peter Bottomley Mr David Drew Mr Mike Hancock
Mr Kelvin Hopkins Lynne Jones Mr Tony Lloyd
Mr Elfyn Llwyd Alice Mahon John McDonnell
Adam Price David Taylor Mr Simon Thomas
Dr Rudi Vis Mr Robert N Wareing
15 signatures
That this House expresses deep concern at the seizing of web servers
belonging to the independent media organisation Indymedia; requests that
the Home Secretary explains under what authority their wholly
independent news service was prevented from functioning; and expresses
its disquiet at this attack on freedom of speech via the internet.

manos

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Great, now we can all ask OUR MPs to sign this! :-)

21.10.2004 19:27

Good to see Jeremy Corbyn has started an Early Day Motion and that he's already got 15 signatures.

Why not ask your MP to sign this. Write to them, reminding them what Indymedia is and what happened to it and urge them to sign EDM 1750.

It's best if you include all the details, eg by pasting from the original text above.

It's easy to do this by fax - just go to www.faxyourmp.com

That's www.faxyourmp.com

Only takes a minute, why not fire off a fax now :-).

Ozymandias
- Homepage: http://www.faxyourmp.com


parliament.uk link

21.10.2004 22:59

This is the official source for this:

1750 FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND INDYMEDIA 15:10:04

Jeremy Corbyn
David Taylor
Mr David Drew
Mr Tony Lloyd
Lynne Jones
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That this House expresses deep concern at the seizing of web servers belonging to the independent media organisation Indymedia; requests that the Home Secretary explains under what authority their wholly independent news service was prevented from functioning; and expresses its disquiet at this attack on freedom of speech via the internet.

 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm/cmedm/41018e01.htm

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