Monday, March 30, 2015
"A pair of House
lawmakers wants to completely repeal the Patriot Act and other legal
provisions to dramatically rein in American spying." — The Hill, 3/24/15
Since 2001, the government has used the Patriot Act to claim enormous, terrifying new powers to spy on Americans.
And with some of the Patriot Act's most controversial provisions set to expire this spring — including one that the NSA claims lets it collect private data about all of our phone calls — we have a big opportunity to put a stop to widespread, indiscriminate surveillance.
Many of these provisions were only supposed to be authorized for a number of years. Unfortunately, Congress has allowed itself to be backed into a corner on rubberstamping reauthorization of the law year after year.
We can't let that happen again. Click here and tell Congress we need to repeal the Patriot Act, not rubberstamp its reauthorization.
After the leaks by Edward Snowden, even the original Patriot Act author Rep. James Sensenbrenner has said that the authority claimed by the government to spy on Americans far exceeds the intent of the law.
Good news: last week, Representatives Mark Pocan and Thomas Massie introduced the Surveillance State Repeal Act, which would repeal the Patriot Act and restore our constitutionally protected civil liberties.
This is big. Demand Progress is joining with CREDO Action to gather signatures in support of SSRA — can you add your name to our petition?
Sure, getting a full repeal of the Patriot Act will be an uphill battle. But Congress won’t move to restore our civil liberties unless we demand it.
Ask Congress to support the Surveillance State Repeal Act — it takes just a second.
Let’s make the Patriot Act history.
—Demand Progress
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#TTP Why not Call Senator Wyden tomorrow and ask him to oppose Fast Track for the TPP! (202) 224-5244 and (503) 326-7525
Huge
news. WikiLeaks just released the full text of the secret Trans-Pacific
Partnership (TPP) chapter on “Investor State Dispute Settlement.”1
It’s terrifying. The TPP is even worse than we thought. The leaked
chapter shows how the TPP would set up a shadowy international “court
system” that would have no accountability to the public.2
This
is exactly the type of system that the forces pushing for Internet
censorship and extremist copyright provisions want to have in place so
they can push their unpopular agenda in secret. We have to stop it.
Right
now, all of this is in the hands of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden. What he
does in the coming days will affect the future of the Internet for
generations to come. We need to pull out all the stops to make sure he
hears us.
We need to flood Senator Wyden's office with phone calls TODAY, before it's too late. Can
you call both his offices right now and ask his staff directly if
they've read the latest leaked TPP text? Then ask him to be a hero for
the Internet and oppose Fast Track!
Here's the numbers: (202) 224-5244 and (503) 326-7525
Can't call? Click here to tweet directly at Senator Wyden and ask if he's seen the latest TPP text! Here's the numbers: (202) 224-5244 and (503) 326-7525
The
same lobbyists that brought us bills like SOPA have been using this
backroom trade negotiation process to advance their extremist copyright
policy agenda for years.3 The USTR, who are responsible for
negotiating these agreements, are one of the worst examples of a
“revolving door” agency, where bureaucrats who used to be lobbyists get
to set policy that benefits their own industries and lines their own
pockets, all at the expense of the general public.
It’s
time we put an end to this secretive abuse of our democratic process.
Senator Ron Wyden claims to be a proponent of government transparency.
He’s never had a better chance to prove it.
Call Senator Wyden right now and ask him to oppose Fast Track for the TPP! (202) 224-5244 and (503) 326-7525
Can't
call? Click here to tweet Senator Ron Wyden a question about the latest
TPP text and ask him to oppose Fast Track and stop Internet censorship!Call Senator Wyden right now and ask him to oppose Fast Track for the TPP! (202) 224-5244 and (503) 326-7525
Feel
free to use our pre-filled tweet, or write your own. Whether you call
or tweet, be polite, but firm. We need to convince Senator Wyden to do
the right thing.
More on this soon. This fight is heating up and we’re glad to have you on the team.
-Evan at Fight for the Future
P.S. On Monday,
we’re bringing our message straight to Capitol Hill when we play our
viral #WydenBlimp video on a giant Jumbotron! We want to play 30-second
webcam videos from supporters too asking Senator Wyden to oppose Fast
Track for the TPP. Submit a video to be played on the jumbotron here!
SOURCES:
[1] WikiLeaks, “Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Investment Chapter.”
[2] New York Times, “Trans-Pacific Partnership seen as door for foreign suits against US.”
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Selma, Obama and the Colonization of Black Resistance » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
Selma, Obama and the Colonization of Black Resistance by AJAMU BARAKA Even before reading this article. The pictures of obummer and little bush there "milking it'' made me a little sick to my stomach.