ACTA opts for plastic surgery *Petitions updated*

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We beat it up and left it for dead, but it didn't learn. And now it's opting for a different tactic. It's sporting a full facelift, and hair dye to change its appearance. Yeah, we may have beaten it in the European Parliament, but now its supporters have worked a good part of ACTA into another document. The Canadian-EU Trade Agreement, or CETA, is the identity that ACTA wants to pass itself off as. Those in favor of ACTA are looking to use Canada as a back door to implement ACTA. Here's some info I found about the identity change.
"Never one to take the word "No" at face value, the European Commission (EC) has tried various tactics to ease ACTA through the European Parliament, including an attempt to delay the last week's vote until the European Court of Justice had ruled on it's compatibility with EU law.
According to Geist, "The European Commission strategy appears to be to use CETA as the new ACTA, burying its provisions in a broader Canadian trade agreement with the hope that the European Parliament accepts the same provisions it just rejected with the ACTA framework. If successful, it would likely then argue that ACTA poses no new concerns since the same rules were approved within the Canadian trade deal.""
Here's the article if you want to read more: www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2…
and here's a web blog containing a side-by-side comparison of ACTA with its CETA counterparts. www.michaelgeist.ca/content/vi…

ACTA may try to hide, but it can't fool us with a cosmetic change. We're smart enough to see that this wanna-be chameleon is actually a leopard incapable of changing its spots. The EC sounds to me like a spoiled child, upset and always wanting its way. When one 'parent' told the child no, it tries to make another 'parent' say yes. Well we beat ACTA once, and we can beat it again. And this time let's make sure we spank the EC for being a spoiled brat, so that it can walk away from this understanding that no means "NO!!!"
I have yet to find many petitions against CETA, but if I come across any more, I will add them to this group and this journal. For now, I have at least managed to find these, but I think they're Canadian only....
www.canadians.org/action/2011/…
stopceta.ca/
www.cfne.org/modules/news/arti…
From what I can tell, CETA is a much broader trade agreement than ACTA. But personally, I don't care what part of CETA a petition is playing up. If it will still get the result of stopping the ACTA-like parts of CETA, I'm all for it.

If anyone else knows or finds any CETA petitions, please share them so everyone can sign for maximum impact.

Update: Here's another petition: www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Tell…
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