Tag: 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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Join the Impact: taking social network activism (and LGBTQ rights) to the next level
Kate X Messer’s Young gay marriage activist leads national protests on 365 Gay profiles Seattle Amy Balliett, who started up the Join the Impact web site after a blog post and email by her friend Willow Witte. Amy’s 26, and her day job is as a search engine optimizer. It’s also an excellent history of…
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Voter Suppression Wiki: Introductions, Help Wanted, and Strategy
Cross-posted on Oxdown Gazette and Pam’s House Blend The Voter Suppression Wiki is a non-partisan hub of information and action around efforts to suppress votes in the 2008 U.S. elections. For more information, please see our strategy and talking points, Baratunde Thurston’s launch post on Jack and Jill Politics, and my series of posts on…