Tag: fisa
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Ideas for Change in America: heading into the homestretch
Executive summary things are still in flux in the change.org/MySpace Ideas for Change in America as we head into the last week of the first round civil liberties (six ideas), drug reform (five ideas), and education (five ideas) dominate the top 30 my idea, Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil…
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“President Obama, please get FISA right” approved by Comcast
Get FISA Right’s cable TV ad for the inauguration has been approved by Comcast — almost two weeks sooner than we had estimated! So now it’s time for grassroots fundraising to put it on the air – in Washington DC, and potentially all around the country. The ad addresses President Obama directly, congratulating him on…
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Photos wanted for the Get FISA Right “inauguration ad”
Were you one of the 23,000 Obama supporters who got together on my.barackobama.com last July to protest his stance on FISA? If so, we’d like to include your photo in a cable TV ad we’re working on with SaysMe.tv that we’ll be broadcasting in Washington DC for the inauguration. Here’s the script: Even though we…
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Turning the Page on FISA (guest-blogging on change.org)
I’ve got a post Turning the Page on FISA on change.org’s Criminal Justice blog today. Here’s the beginning: The coming year will present a unique opportunity for a broad-based activism campaign to restore our civil liberties and begin rolling back key pillars of the national surveillance state institutionalized by the Bush Administration and Congress over…
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Get FISA Right: draft scripts up … feedback please!
First-draft scripts for a few different options for our next round of ads are up on the wiki: Better watch those nuns — and their friends too Obama’s cell-phone records breached Congratulations. Now, get FISA right. Feedback welcome! Discussion thread here … jon PS: in case you missed it, I posted a Get FISA Right…
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Get FISA Right: quick update
Executive Summary Ideas for Change competition: currently #6; please vote for and help promote our idea. Cable TV ads: notes from last conference call are up; next call Saturday; script frozen by Monday. Update, 9:30 pm: draft scripts including “Better watch those nuns — and their friends too” posted. Feedback please! 2009 strategy planning: please…
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Get FISA Right: Proposed 2009 strategy
After discussions with people in Get FISA Right as well as others (including EFF, ACLU, privacy advocates, and journalists), I’ve put together a proposal for a 2009 Strategy. There’s also a Strategy Backgrounder, with a brief history, and a discussion of our strengths and challenges — as well as challenges for the anti-FISA forces in…
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Get FISA Right: Proposed 2009 communication channels
In response to the consistent feedback that we need to simplify our communications mechanisms, there’s a proposal up on the wiki. A summary: to stay informed: check the website/blog at getfisaright.net OR get action alerts and daily(ish) newsletters on any one of the channels listed in the “Broadcasts” section below (email, RSS, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)…
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FISA: How will the Obama administration respond on immunity?
Justice Department attorney Carl Nichols didn’t get through his first full sentence defending the constitutionality of retroactive immunity for spying telecom carriers before U.S. district judge Vaughn Walker interrupted to ask about President-elect Barack Obama. “We are going to have new attorney general,” Walker interjected in Tuesday morning’s hearing in a San Francisco courthouse. “Why…
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change.org/MySpace “Ideas for Change in America” top 20
Updated info available at the top ideas list on the change.org site Ideas for Change in America is a citizen-driven project that aims to identify and create momentum around the best ideas for how the Obama Administration and 111th Congress can turn the broad call for “change” across the country into specific policies…. The top…
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Get FISA Right and Change.org’s Ideas site: Rupert Murdoch as civil rights sugar daddy?
Nancy Scola’s Ideas for Change, and a Roadmap in techPresident’s “Daily Digest†discusses Change.org’s Ideas for Change in America: The social-action hub has just announced that the project now has the backing of MySpace and a broad coalition of supporting partners, including techPresident, the Sunlight Foundation, Netroots Nation, VotoLatino, GOOD Magazine, Change Congress, Campus Progress,…
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Reflections: what I learned during my summer vacation
Apologies to my friends and relatives for being out of touch this summer…. Rather than going to the beach, I instead hung out in a variety of exotic online locales: my.barackobama.com, Wetpaint, Facebook, and the blogosphere (especially OpenLeft, Shakesville, Pam’s House Blend, and Jack and Jill Politics). It was kind of a working vacation, engaging…
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Constitution Day: Can we please talk about it?
Constitution Day has arrived without major statements from Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain on the need to restore this country’s commitment to the rule of law. — John Nichols, Constitution in Crisis, Candidates in Denial, The Nation At the risk of showing my age, I grew up with the impression that the Constitution…
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Get FISA Right gets partisan!
The new ad stars the Constitution as the main player, with the visual featuring a pan over founding documents. One version of the ad takes aim at the Republican Senators, who voted unanimously to extend the powers of government to listen to Americans’ phone calls and read their emails without a warrant; another highlights John…
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Towards a rebirth of freedom: activism on social networks, part 1 (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Revised version posted at Pam’s House Blend and (under a different title, and minus the introduction ) Open Left.
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Get FISA Right: “Don’t let our Constitution die” (DRAFT)
DRAFT! Please see the revised version on OpenLeft. “We’ve got more than a million volunteers on my.barackobama.com. They’ve planned more than 70,000 offline events through the system, made millions of phone calls from home, and formed thousands of grassroots advocacy groups, including one you might have heard about recently.” — Barack Obama, Netroots Nation video…
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Get FISA Right: Paging Clay Shirky
Wow, what a weekend. Friday, the Get FISA Right campaign was on CNN a couple of times (including a brief clip by me on American Morning that also got picked up internationally and a great discussion of Obama & Get FISA Right Activism by Ari Melber on CNN headline news where he challenged the left/right…
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Get FISA Right: A night of Facebook action
It’s been a wild few days with the Get FISA Right activism campaign. Our bare-bones media room is the best place to get a quick summary of all the stuff going on; here are a few hightlights: over 22,000 members in the myBO group, and 1700+ on Facebook; we delivered our response and our asks…
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It’s the Fourth of July, and we’re fighting for our civil liberties
Originally sent to the Senator Obama – Please, No Telecom Immunity and Get FISA Right mailing list. I certainly don’t mean to trivialize the situation. There’s a huge amount at stake and the anger, frustration, and disappointment so many of us (including me) feel comes through in every post. Realistically, the odds are still against…
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The first thing to do: set up a wiki
I remember hearing Zack Rosen of CivicSpace starting his talk about the team that put together the Katrina people finder by saying “one of the first things we did was set up a wiki” and it really struck a chord. As an effort like Senator Obama – Please, No Telecom Immunity and Get FISA Right…