Dear all,
we have to plan our activities for the rest of the year and the handing over of our petition.
as written in previous mails, we do not expect to get a conference organized as demanded within the period of time as planned.
Therefore, we want to prolong our activities (and adapt our strategies) for around 3 years. However, we should not forget to organise handovers of our petition before the end of the year!
currently, and with support from WeMove (also additional funding might be possible, if needed; they also may take videos from our actions), we are planning for some activities:
* hand over of the petition in Berlin. We are just about to await a report on patents prepared by German government and then will try to fix a date in Berlin. It is likely that we (again) will only be outside in the street, but we think this activity will help to push the German government ahead.
* go to the EPO on 13 December for the last meeting of the Admin council. We propose this is the final end of the petition.
* in addition, we discuss to visit the KWS at their annual meeting in Einbeck on 6 December.
further activities are the appeal against Carlsberg, the opposition against the patent of KWS and a workshop with EU Parliament on 16 November.
To prepare our public actvities, we could organise some new visuals: It is time, to have a 'screaming maize' with us (same feature as the screaming veggies). Further, for the hand over at the EPO, we need some additional elements, to look fresh and innovative. We could use the 'screaming maize' to be printed on packages with organic maize seeds. The overall number of kernels may be the same as the number of signatures. we could organise 38 packages for symbolic hand over of the petition.
If everything works out as planned, we will have an additional campaigner with us to drive the transporter with the 'screaming elements' and to help us to prepare and de-roll our actions.
So for the moment please send back your comments. Please also consider if you want to organise a hand over of the petition this year (we hope there will be opportunities for public actions also next year), in case we could try to travel with our 'screaming elements' or provide you with some maize kernel packages.
so let us move ahead and have a nice weekend!
Christoph