Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
I got between 30 and 50 calls per hour yesterday, from those who wanted interviews. There was not a chance to respond to all. Sorry primarily to Swedish media.
During the day today, I will give priority, in addition to Swedish media, to answering and calling back the BBC, CNN, al-Jazeera, ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Friends,
Sunday, we won an incredibly important partial victory. All of us who fought hard with these questions were finally given political vindication. Christian Engström goes to Brussels. And if the Lisbon Treaty is approved in Ireland in the autumn—as we are against the thing, in and of itself—so Amelia Andersdotter ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Right now, there’s a bit of confusion about exactly what happens to the mandatory number 19 and 20. We know that we have 19 seats, with full qualification if and when the Lisbon Treaty enters into force.
But the question is what happens before then. Until yesterday, it was crystal clear—it ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Friends, brothers and sisters all over the besieged free world:
Today, we have won our first crucial battle for the future of civil liberties. The right to be a free citizen. The right to privacy as a concept. Indeed, the freedom to voice one's opinions at all.
These are freedoms that our ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
As I sit here and prepare to go to the voting booths, a couple of things strike me.
It strikes me what a fantastic organization of activists we have which allow us to build this together. It has not happened in living memory, that ordinary people without a community have managed ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
It’s half-past ten in the evening before election day. Ballot coverage on election day is a little over 97%. Everything is out there. Opinion polls are holding steady at over 8%.
It’s now real.
This is what we’ve worked for for three-and-a-half years. Several of us have worked far longer than that.
I ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Friends:
As this letter goes out, it’s 36 hours until the polls open. I thought now is the time to swarm with the strength of a tornado just before the election itself.
For we are many. We are fifty thousand members and fifteen thousand activists.
So many people making a difference
Now we have—after ...
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
Now we must finish.
Do not miss the giant giant report on Piratpartiet and my background in Fokus, published today.
Tomorrow, Saturday, I am on Sergelstory at 12 to hand out flyers and leaflets for the Stockholm area.
Furthermore, I’ve worked on a newsbrief in swarm work for 20 of the past 36 ...
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Friday, June 5th, 2009
I wake up with the sun at 11. The alarm clock was needless today.
I remember a time when everyone had to work simultaneously. So… unnecessary. But this was before the swarm work model. What a waste! How could people work so stifled? Without creativity and innovation? And so… limited by ...
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