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Brighton Pavilion 'Civil Liberties' Hustings - Quiz Your Future MP!

Apr 8, 2015 · 7:00 PM
Friends Meeting House

Brighton residents (and those interested in nearby areas) are invited to attend this free event, giving you the opportunity to ask parliamentary candidates in Brighton Pavilion what they think about Civil Liberties and Human Rights.

Not sure if you live in Brighton Pavilion? Find out here: https://yournextmp.com ;

All of the candidates have been invited and those definitely attending are: Caroline Lucas (Green), Purna Sen (Labour), Clarence Mitchell (Conservative), Chris Bowers (Liberal Democrat), Nigel Carter (UKIP), Howard Pilott (The Socialist Party of Great Britain) and Nick Yeomans (Independent).

There will be prepared questions on the Human Rights Act, Freedom of Speech and Surveillance. The rest will be from the audience on the night.

We will have volunteers passing microphones to audience members to ask their questions!

There will then be 40 minutes of pre-prepared questions and 40 minutes of questions from the audience.

This event is free and open to the public. Please arrive at the Friends Meeting House from 7pm for refreshments in the cafe and a 7.30pm start in the main meeting hall.

Any questions or to RSVP without using MeetUp, please email: [masked]

See you there! :)

Lydia
ORG Brighton Organiser

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ahaxxx

a few words regarding the meetup are on http://aharonic.net/?p=4727
had to place it on blog because here its the 1000chars liberty rule.. ;)
cheers!

0 · April 10, 2015
- Open Rights G.
  
  Hi, have had a look and take your comments on board. It's difficult to please everyone at events like this and it always feels like the audience haven't had enough time to speak. We'll work on that at future events - Lydia, ORG Brighton Organiser
  
  0 · April 13, 2015
samuel

I enjoyed the hustings.
On mass surveillance, I wonder if anyone can comment about its effectiveness. It seems a bit like mass screening in the health sector (e.g. for breast cancer).
With health screening, false positives create unnecessary anxiety and may even lead to spurious treatments. The screening may miss some cases (false negatives). I'd imagine the issues arise with mass surveillance.
Given that the number of bad guys is very small, false positives may be numerous with mass surveillance and it may miss some of the real bad guys.
We don't seem to be able to evaluate how well it works and that itself is a big cause for concern.
I oppose mass surveillance for different reasons, but if it is bad value for money that’s yet another thing against it.

0 · April 9, 2015
Open Rights G.

Hi everyone,

Great that so many of us will be there, just two final reminders about tonight's event:

1) We're expecting 60+ people to be there (lots of RSVPs on other events on various websites) so arrive from 7pm onwards and 7.30pm at the latest to get a good seat.

2) Tonight is about discussing not arguing so please keep your questions friendly! The candidates have given up their Wednesday evening to come speak to us so be respectful when addressing them even if you don't agree with what they or their party stands for. I'm sure everyone will be but have to say that just in case!

See you tonight,
Lydia

1 · April 8, 2015
Open Rights G.

Now Purna Sen, the Labour Candidate will be present! Full house!

0 · March 27, 2015
Open Rights G.

Clarence Mitchell, the Conservative candidate has just confirmed! Get your questions ready as looks like all of the candidates will be there, Labour candidate is the last one!

0 · March 27, 2015
Open Rights G.

Hi everyone!

Great to see so many people attending even though it's only been a few days since we created the event.

Please submit any questions you would like to be asked on the subject of digital rights and more broadly Civil Liberties to me at: [masked]. I can't guarantee that they'll be asked in the prepared section of the debate but I'll see how many the spaces we have. The more on topic and clear and concise they are, the higher chance it'll be asked!

See you soon!

Lydia
ORG Brighton Organiser
and
Local Groups Co-ordinator at Open Rights Group

0 · March 24, 2015