[no2id-supporters] NO2ID Newsletter No.87

Fri Dec 21 12:09:16 GMT 2007

    NO2ID Supporters' Newsletter No. 87 - 20th December 2007

*Contacting us:* Call or email the office - 020-7793-4005 or 
(office at no2id.net). Please do not reply to this email. (The from address 
is not a working email address)

** Please note: We will be sending a separate Review of the Year e-mail, 
for you to enjoy/digest over the holidays. **

      Message from NO2ID's National Coordinator

"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear."  How many 
times have you heard that tired old phrase trotted out by ID card 
proponents over the past few years ...but how many times in the last 
month? 

Independent polls regularly now show that more people don't want ID 
cards than do.  The 'Data-gate' scandal and subsequent breaches have 
finally woken the nation to what NO2ID has been saying for years.

More than ever, we must keep the pressure on.  The government will not 
relinquish the ID scheme without a fight.

Ministers are still hell-bent on implementing the 'Transformational 
Government' agenda - yet more of your personal information, shared by 
even more people and organisations without your knowledge or consent - 
and plans for alternative ID infrastructures, e.g. based on 
concessionary travel schemes, are already well advanced.

We can win.  We must win.  And with your help, we will.

I wish you and your families a peaceful and ID-free Christmas, and look 
forward to campaigning with you for freedom, privacy and personal 
security in 2008.

Phil Booth
National Coordinator, NO2ID

      Make the NO2ID Pledge your New Year's Resolution

NO2ID's new Pledge is a new form of non-violent direct action: 
pre-emptive resistance.  You *can* do something positive now.  Something 
totally legal, that has its own life, not determined by us, but by YOU.  
If enough people publicly declare they will not cooperate, government 
seizure of personal identity will become impossible.

Anyone can do it.  Anyone can help others do it.  The more who do, the 
easier it is.

The government cannot now be trusted.  People across the country are 
deciding they can choose for themselves who they are and who they 
trust.  The NO2ID Pledge - http://www.no2id.net/pledge/ - is a way of 
declaring to your friends and neighbours (tell everyone!) that you will 
not cooperate with any further government seizure of your personal 
information.

      Data sharing - Have your say

A 'Data Sharing Review', launched by the Ministry of Justice last week, 
is inviting submissions from the public.  Please take some time over the 
holiday period to tell them what you think: 
(http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/data-sharing-review-consultation.htm). 
The review closes 15th February.

And please also send NO2ID details (with evidence) of occasions where 
public authorities or others are demanding more information than 
necessary for the purpose. Our address is NO2ID, Box 412, 19-21 Crawford 
Street, London W1H 1PJ or send by e-mail to office at no2id.net
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      What's next?

        Local groups news

A full list of local groups can be found at www.no2id.net/localGroups

        _Bradford_

*19th January - Bradford NO2ID meeting*
Saturday, 19th January at The Old Dolphin, Clayton Heights, Bradford. 
Contact Jason Smith at bradford at no2id.net for more details.

        _Cambridge_

*2nd January - Cambridge NO2ID pub meeting*
Wednesday, 2nd January 7.30pm at the Salisbury Arms, 76 Tenison Rd, 
Cambridge CB1 2DW (http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=cb1+2dw). Cambridge 
NO2ID's informal pub meetings are on the first Wednesday of each month. 
For more details contact cambridge at no2id.net, or text/call Andrew on 
07710 469624.

*5th January - NO2ID Cambridge Stall*
Saturday, 5th January 10am in the usual spot outside Cambridge 
Guildhall. Location Map: http://tinyurl.com/eo42r. As ever, volunteers 
to help very welcome - please email cambridge at no2id.net, or text/call 
Andrew on 07710 469624 if you can make it.

        _Dorking_

*8th January - Dorking NO2ID meeting*
Tuesday, 8th January 7.30pm at the Surrey Oaks pub, Parkgate Road, 
Newdigate.

        _Lowerstoft_

*10th January - Lowerstoft NO2ID meeting*
Thursday, 10th January 7.30pm at The Hotel Victoria, Kirkley Cliff, 
Lowestoft, Suffolk (http://www.thehotelvictoria.co.uk).

        _Newcastle/Gateshead_

*8th January - Newcastle NO2ID meeting*
Tuesday, 8th January at 7.00pm at the Bridge Hotel in Newcastle. All 
welcome.

*12th January - Newcastle NO2ID stall*
Saturday, 12th January from 11.00am to 1.00pm at the monument in 
Newcastle.  All welcome.

        _Oxford_

*3rd January  - Oxford NO2ID meeting*
Thursday, 3rd January at 8pm in the Mitre, High Street, Oxford 
(http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=the+mitre+oxford). With the 
Interrogation Centre due to open on the Botley Road in January we'll be 
discussing how we can mark this event with some media attention.  We'll 
also talk about our recent leafletting of Christmas shoppers, the series 
of letters we have been sending to local papers, our response to the 
ongoing public sector data losses and more. See you there!
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