Drambuster
I am sorry to learn of your experiences in Denmark and Sweden.
The LAA (formerly the PFA) represents a great many pilots. I suspect their representation will grow as the aircraft owners that they in particular represent grow in numbers.
The General Aviation Alliance are very active in this arena.
The PPL/IR org are most certainly concerned with GAs right to roam in Europe.
There are others.
There are some powerful alliances to be forged here. I cannot help think such alliances are even more important than AOPA bating their own wicket - a wicket on which they cannot claim to even represent a majority of UK pilots.
It is all to easy to appear to be be "doing something" and yet to completely miss the wider picture. Politicians are very good at side stepping anyone who is not representative or where the representation is fragmented. I therefore agree that on issues of this type it is vital that the GA fraternity is united - I guess that is my point - asking pilots to unite behind AOPA will just increase the divisions that already exist between an already fragmented representation which historically is clearly unable to work together. Moreover AOPA has proven singularly unable to increase its membership so (sadly) one has to doubt that unless they adopt a new (and better initiative) they are unlikely to make the progress that we would all wish for.