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4:52 | HarryWaisbren: Hey there Mark |
4:56 | HarryWaisbren: Any final comments on the goals or agenda pre-call? |
4:59 | HarryWaisbren: Mark on upcoming legislative update, spent a while today searching: HJC staffer told him best source they have is Fox News. Bottom line is no one knows what is going on. Reid has not released new incarnation of the bill. |
5:00 | HarryWaisbren: Korkie, Mark, Harry on the call. Korkie has a cough so may be taking part exclusively in the chat.Connie, James fromDownsizedc.org |
5:02 | HarryWaisbren: Sally, Dave from BORDC joining us now. |
5:03 | HarryWaisbren: Connie: haven't done this before, not real internet savvy, should I be at a certain locatin on the website?Harry: meeting page open? Connie: something live, seems blocked. |
5:04 | HarryWaisbren: Explaining how to use the chat, Mark relaying the meeting page link. |
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5:06 | HarryWaisbren: Hey Jon |
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5:07 | HarryWaisbren: emailed meeting page to Sally |
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5:08 | HarryWaisbren: Bob Jacobson and Jon Pincus just joined as well. |
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5:09 | HarryWaisbren: Mark giving his updateMark: spent time on phone with hill staffers. Bottom line, ended up with someone on SJC committee, asking for status on Patriot Act. Reported Reid included it in now revised revised jobs bill. |
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5:10 | HarryWaisbren: Mark: bottom line, nobody has any authoritative information. All kinds of speculation. 2. Most authorative source that the guy I ended up talking with says he had is a Fox News page on the internet that reported hte one year extension.Mark: until we get some releaes from Reid, can see legislative language, really are flying blind. |
5:11 | HarryWaisbren: Mark: assume one year extension of current law is what is going to be enacted. Have to do something, otherwise sunsets. |
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5:11 | HarryWaisbren: Seems like that was fixed, Dave.Jon: caught something from Shahid, in huffington post piece talked about 1 year extenson, but as far as he knew wasn't in latest craft of jobs bill, doesn't know what's up. |
5:12 | HarryWaisbren: Sally: don't want this thing extended, period the end. |
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5:12 | HarryWaisbren: James: dont' think anyone knows until congress gets back from recess, Monday. |
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5:13 | HarryWaisbren: James: anger about the jobs bill.Mark: that is an understatement. Sally: do they think they can get a jobs bill passed by 28th at this late date? Mark: don't ahve to pass one by the 28th |
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5:15 | HarryWaisbren: Mark: if taking action on patriot act, ahve to by 28thSally: another reason where Reid wouldn't attach it to jobs bill, wouldn't pass soon enough anyways. Mark: makes sense to me, however, apparently have attached it to the jobs bill. Sources saying don't have it in legislative langugae, issued from leaders office, or on calendar. Common inside wisdom is it has been put on the jobs bill. |
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5:15 | HarryWaisbren: Mark: Reid could take it off, pass it separately, or attach to something else. what I get is leadership decision has been made, they don't want to discuss it, they don't want to debate it, not going to separate it. |
5:16 | HarryWaisbren: Sally: don't come up wtih something they can attach it to, don't want to talk about it, don't want to bring it to floor on its own. Wouldn't that be one way of killing it? Could it be intentional? |
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5:17 | HarryWaisbren: oh no! Sorry, lot of new voices |
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5:19 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: I think people loathe the patriot act, don't want to be seen publicly saying how wonderful it is. Progressive dems don't like it, lot of fear of dems of alienating hte base. |
5:20 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: in a jam, don't want to look weak on securtiy. Don't want to speak for it to alienate base, do something behind scenes to make it go away. |
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5:21 | HarryWaisbren: Mark: house has passed fairly decent changes in patriot act law. Senate was in a wrangle btw Dianne Feinstein primarily and the rest of the judiciary committee. Committee voted out bill much less progressive version. |
5:22 | HarryWaisbren: Mark: set to be resolved before end of year, with two month extension, then bomb underwear bomber. Not progrssives they are worrying about alienating, don't care about them. Don't want discussion of substance of what is wrong with patriot act inf ront of mass of angry voters and being cast in terms of "dems don't care about national securtiy". |
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5:23 | HarryWaisbren: Mark: year extension maybe lets it cool down, current law continues, not so great, but can take it up after the election/early in next congress. |
5:24 | HarryWaisbren: Connie: didn't this happen 2 years ago in Februrary, same thing? |
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5:26 | HarryWaisbren: What can we do for short term?Mark: my read is there is nothing we can do. Taken into leadership's hands. |
5:26 | HarryWaisbren: Comment: worry about a year from now, extend only one year |
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5:29 | HarryWaisbren: Jon onchange.org:deadline from fax is the 18thSally: email I got said 25th. Jon: things we did best last year that made the most impact, did a guest blog post somehwere onchange.org, hit FB group as well as email group quite a lot. Btw various groups, have more than 2,3000 people. |
5:29 | HarryWaisbren: Here is the link to Jon's post onchange.orgstrategy:http://getfisaright.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/ideas-for-change-2010-how-you-can-help/ |
5:30 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: shooting for 1,000 is probably reasonable thing to do. by whatever mechanism, spread. |
5:30 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: may have to coach peple into signing up tochange.org, last year was real pain to people. Friends say they will do it, but need to check back, ask if they need help. |
5:31 | HarryWaisbren: Connie: if you place in top 5 of that, what do we win?Jon: two stage process. 1st, you get to finals. Buys you a little attention, not much. top 10 in finals get publicity, have press event. Get follow on support from them. Last year didn't do a great job, got email from Ben Rattray who ran it, sent to last year's winners syaing they didn't do as good a job out of the box supporting the winners, what can they do more effective? |
5:32 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: reason I think it's potentially useful is it's not just for winning, but within the competition, last year got 1,300, that's a chunk. Lot of visibility.Jon: didn't succeed at leveraging them becaue teh stuff we were trying to do didn't take off. Some kind of activism timed, during or right after the competittion, reachign all these people stillf ersh with it, interesting launching point. |
5:32 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: can also askdemocrats.comto endorse us, do a blog post, include us in the mailings.Jon: BORDC said depending on the timing they coudl include us in a mailing |
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5:35 | HarryWaisbren: Voted for idea yet? Can sign on here:http://www.change.org/ideas/view/take_back_our_rights_repeal_the_patriot_act |
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5:35 | HarryWaisbren: BORDC's idea is here as well:http://www.change.org/ideas/view/enact_local_ordinances_to_restore_the_rule_of_law_and_protect_civil_liberties |
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5:38 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: is a socia lnewrok site, can friend people on it, can invite to calls as well |
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5:38 | HarryWaisbren: Sure korkie!Connie: public awareness aspect important. Teaming up with Ron Paul's org? Ones with this in common, regardless of ideology. |
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5:39 | HarryWaisbren: Sally: putting comments on other posts also useful |
5:40 | HarryWaisbren: Connie: education, aside from in depth constitutional study issue, see examples like underpants/christmas bomber being used, really mkaes my blood boil. Obama himself came out, said they had info, didn't put it together right. Same old problems, really ones that existed before DHS was created. |
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5:42 | HarryWaisbren: --comments: lot of examples out there like that. educate the public about why those are not good examples of why patriot act should be renewed.---people use too much data argument when it's not in your favor, I don't buy it. have numbers to dispute that. Education I'm thinking of too. |
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5:45 | HarryWaisbren: ---broach issues, identify groups going to be approachable. Not need so much education. Find way to support eachotehr. |
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5:46 | HarryWaisbren: downsizedc.orghas been campaigning on these issues for 5-6 |
5:48 | HarryWaisbren: practically, how do we do this engagement?James asks about ACLU involvement Jon: yes, have to treat us gingerly, not a non-partisan group. |
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5:49 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: reaching out to more state supportesr of ACLU. More likely to be willing to wrok with us as a natioanl oragnizationahh, my phone is cutting out |
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5:52 | HarryWaisbren: everyone is certainly for privacy. Key is making lack of privacy resonate for poeple---they don't see gov spying on them, so don't think it's an issue. Why we have been searchign for personal stories. |
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5:54 | HarryWaisbren: correct, including our soldiers (military officers had private, explicit phone calls tapped to their loved ones and shared/mocked around hte office) |
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5:55 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: BORDC one of our closest allies. Discussing local ordinances, what else we can do for them. |
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5:55 | HarryWaisbren: Is Dave from BORDC still on the call/in the chat? |
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5:57 | HarryWaisbren: Dave: i'm here to answer question, help bring up to speed on the kind of stuff we have been engaged with.Dave: Shahid hopeful they wouldn't slip it in, looks like they have. Actiism has been over the mock, released model legislation, with networks we have warmed up from previous contacts we have made a "best practices" model legislation adn talking points. In the middle of circulating ot local civil right groups. |
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5:58 | HarryWaisbren: Dave: idea is it's a resource for everybody, their connections with local legislators are going to be a lot more robust than ours. Let grassroots people do their thing. |
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5:59 | HarryWaisbren: Talat: when do you expect to mail out?Dave: on our website. If not on email that has been spread around, can emaildavemitchell@riseup.net. Be happy to get you the legislation and talking points. Use as much as you want, can get it to you as soon as I hang up. |
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6:00 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: BORDC so well positioned to reach out across the spectrum. As these things get billing, we can be a big asset in online social network aspect to itDave: trying to grow that, launcehd a campaign slowly getting more and more hits. |
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6:01 | HarryWaisbren: Dave: don't know waht got me into defending civil rights, but when I read the talking points, realized there were a lot of great arguments that had never crossed my mind. Cehck them out, very very powerful. |
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6:02 | HarryWaisbren: Dave: lobby day, talking to reps. Pushign middle class sensibiliteis really important in all this with reps. |
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6:03 | HarryWaisbren: Soren:charityandsecurity.orghas a great article on this. |
6:05 | HarryWaisbren: Soren: PDF that talks about counter terrorism methods, way treasury uses various databases as beneficiary and staff for aid agencies and NGOs. Handicaps charities from addressing route causes of terorirsm, spectacularly low perecentage who have aided terror.Soren: NDOs comitted to practicing non-violence, not aiding hte bad actors. |
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6:07 | HarryWaisbren: Mark: infinite volume of materials and potentail allies. Need a concrete mission statement, objectives, with some clarity even if very broad. What input we need and what we want to tie into, and what we want to do when we get everything together. |
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6:08 | HarryWaisbren: But we are not non-partisan. Originally a group of obama supporters who organized on his own social network. :) |
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6:09 | HarryWaisbren: We have manifested into something differnet, but the core that we have hope that Obama can "Get FISA Right" still continues. We have never abdicated that original relationship, though it's certainly a worthy debate of whether we should move in a non-partisan, direction. |
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6:13 | HarryWaisbren: Talat: going there, collaboration of 6 orgs. Arab American Institute, arab American coaliton of NY, Muslim American coalition, couple of other Arab organizations dealing iwth civil liberties.Talat: asking a few questions from my perspective, how life has changed as Arab Americans. When 9/11 happened htings were not as bad, but not, thigns are getting worse by the day. |
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6:14 | HarryWaisbren: Talat: I was pulled over hte other day, was asked if I was from this countr, where I was born.Talat: cahnging legislation, extending by a year, center for constitutional rights had a panel discussion in manhatten...how to make new rules regarding terrorism at home. More and more about targeting muslim americans than ever before. |
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6:15 | HarryWaisbren: Talat to send email about meeting tomorrow. |
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6:16 | HarryWaisbren: Increasingly emphasize hte racial components to these policies? Clearly are abhorrent.... |
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6:17 | HarryWaisbren: Good question about tea parties contributing to racial element. Need to be conscious of such dynamics, or the perception of htem even at the least, in our engagement.... |
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6:21 | HarryWaisbren: hwaisbren@gmail.com |
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6:22 | HarryWaisbren: Jon: great conversation. Pointing ot a different way of looking at this coalition tahn we ahd in the past.Jon: great discussion in chat room about looking at mission statement, maybe for next phone call |
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6:22 | HarryWaisbren: Just happen to have that link open Korkie:http://firedoglake.com/2010/02/16/early-morning-swim-keith-olbermanns-special-comment-on-racism-and-the-tea-party-movement/Not sure if I entirely agree, as Ron Paulian libertarian elements aren't as racialized, but I don't believe we can afford to be naive to the motivations of certain aspects of the teabaggers. |
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6:24 | HarryWaisbren: The tea party is splitting along libertarian vs. socail conservative/neocon lines. Many are very uncomfortable with Sarah Palin especially. |
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6:28 | HarryWaisbren: take care Korkie! Thanks for joining us. |
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6:34 | HarryWaisbren: Fantastic call everyone! |
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