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Published on Thursday, 06 August 2015 10:00
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Hi Paov, I want to make sure you had a chance to read about OpenMedia’s plan to fight for the Internet and defend your digital rights during Canada’s upcoming election. We urgently need your help now to launch our action platform.

This is a crucial chance to fight back against:

  • Reckless government surveillance of your online life authorized by laws like C-51
  • Secret “trade” deals like the TPP that would criminalize your everyday Internet use
  • Price-gouging Big Telecom giants that block you from independent choices and lower prices

We can only launch our brand-new online action platform if you pitch in. Please donate today so we can hit the ground running.

Thanks for all you do,

Steve Anderson, on behalf of your OpenMedia team

PS: I’ve attached my original message below in case you missed it.

The upcoming election will decide the next five years of digital policy in Canada

The upcoming election will decide the next five years of digital policy in Canada, and an early campaign start means we urgently need your help to hit the ground running.

If you contribute today, we’ll have the resources we need to launch our brand-new election web action kit and make sure politicians of all stripes know they’ll be held accountable by the Internet.

Donate Now!

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From: Steve Anderson

Date: Tues, Aug 4, 2015 at 11:02 AM

Paov, it’s official. Prime Minister Harper has just announced the the start of the 2015 election campaign, weeks earlier than expected.1

Media reports have said that the Conservative government wants to limit the influence of groups like us on the issues that matter.2 Luckily, we have the largest digital rights community in the country—500,000 strong to speak out together.

We need your help NOW to build and run our biggest election strategy ever and put digital issues like C-51 and the TPP’s Internet censorship at the top of every candidate’s mind. Will you donate today to make sure we can hit the ground running?

Your support will power our brand new election web portal to unite, educate, and empower our massive digital community to:

  • Turn out the pro-Internet vote with a vote-pledge and online organizing;
  • Evaluate parties on their platforms and promises to inform Canadians;
  • Give Canadians the tools and information needed to pressure candidates and promote our common-sense, crowdsourced policies for Canada’s digital future.

The campaign won’t wait. We urgently need resources to put our plan into action, get our portal up and running, and follow through right up to election day. Even a $10 gift will get us closer to launching this important platform.

This election is one of our best chances to repeal C-51, reject the TPP’s secret plan to criminalize everyday Internet use, and win more choice and affordability for our Internet.

We can make sure our political leaders know exactly what Canadians want by creating a post-partisan action platform to power up your voices and put our issues on the agenda.

We’re a small team but together we’ve moved mountains. Time after time, we’ve turned your crowdsourced ideas into real policy.3, 4 With your help, we will do it again this time.

Please, Paov, chip in today so we can seize this unique opportunity to decide the next 5 years of digital policy in Canada.

For a brighter digital future,

Steve Anderson, on behalf of your OpenMedia team

PS: The Government has a huge war chest and the power to shape the national agenda. If we don’t fight back, our issues will be debated on their terms, not ours. We can’t let that happen—donate today to make sure the Internet gets heard.

Footnotes

[1] Canada election 2015: Stephen Harper confirms start of 11-week federal campaign. Source: r32 If you no longer wish to receive our r46 to unsubscribe.