@ Uni

If you’re @uni, @TAFE, @school, motivate your mates to help save the internet from censorship. Here’s some things you could do:

• Hold an Email a Member competition: see who can email most Members of Parliament in your State/Territory in one week, with different messages calling for mandatory internet filtering – internet censorship – to stop. Find the email addresses here: http://www.aph.gov.au/whoswho/index.htm and follow the links to your House of Representatives or Senate members.


• Write letters to the papers: The Australian, your State/Territory’s main paper, and your local town or suburb/area paper.  See how many letters you can get in. Phone a reporter, and tell them how your mates (and maybe your school?) is against the idea of mandatory internet filtering.


• Demonstrate on internet censorship demonstration: black out 20% of the windows (use sticky tape and paper, or something that won’t leave a mess) in one or more buildings – and have a sign that says: Government Internet BLACKOUT demonstration.  Take a photo, send it to the newspapers, to the Minister...and to us.


• Email all your friends, and tell them about internet censorship. Send them this web address: censorfree.com.au


• Contact the Minister (see Letters on the CensorFREE Home page) and get all your classmates to sign it (don’t forget to copy the letter to us).


• Facebook action by starting up a Facebook page opposing the plan. We have two: Censor FREE and Civil Liberties Australia.


• Ideas especially fresh idea that yourself or your friends have to publicise the issues, and make it happen, with photos and video if possible (please tell us all abut it).  Can anyone in your group draw a cartoon, or make a video?