Groups in Europe have declared that Saturday, February 11 will be a day of protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
An organisation called Access is organising the protests, posting a map of planned actions across Europe.
It follows more spontaneous protests in Poland in January, when ACTA was signed by its member states in Tokyo.
Since then the EU’s rapporteur for ACTA has resigned in protest and Slovenian minister Helena Drnovsek Zorko has published an extraordinary apology for signing the agreement.
She blamed carelessness and a lack of attention driven by overwork, apologised to her children and concluded: “Let my example be a cautionary tale of how swiftly we can make mistakes if we allow ourselves to slip. And if nothing else, we then sleep very badly.”
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