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Summary and notes from Tuesday's phone call


With the Senate Judciary Committee due to mark up the Leahy-Cardin PATRIOT Act reauthorization on Thursday, this call will be an update on the legislative situation and activism around the JUSTICE Act (S. 1686).
  • Representatives from EFF, ACLU, and Cato Institute will give a legislative update
  • Organizers from Get FISA Right, CREDO Action, and other campaigns will provide the activist perspective
  • We'll end with a quick survey of resources available for bloggers, and leave plenty of time for Q&A


Summary


Another excellent call! Thanks to Cynthia from Momocrats; Mandy from ACLU; Marcy and Bill rom Emptywheel; Matt from CREDO; Jim Babka from Downsize dc; Kevin from EFF; Julian from Cato; James Cook; and Manny, Korkie, Mark, Sally, and Harry from Get FISA Right. Detailed notes at http://bit.ly/sep29notes thanks to Harry’s transcription magic. Here’s the highlights.
  • The Senate Judiciary Committee markup on Thursday is our best chance yet for significant reform to the PATRIOT Act and FISA. Conversely, if a weak bill comes out of the SJC, the path forward in the Senate is much more difficult. So over the next 48 hours, we need to put pressure on Senators Whitehouse, Specter, Schumer, and all the other SJC Dems.
  • The “ask” continues to be “support the JUSTICE act”: add provisions to the Leahy Bill on Thursday’s markup, and co-sponsor S. 1682.
  • Numbers so far are decent — 50,000 between CREDO Action/Democrats.com, EFF, Downsize DC. Participation on social networks is small but increasing steadily. Of the email campaigns, CREDO Action/Democrats.com seems to have the best viral spread on social networks; if you want to adapt “share with your friends” mechanism they’re using, get in touch with Matt Lockshin.
  • We need a landing page: short summary of the issue and what’s at stake, links to take action, a couple of quotes from the coalition letter, where to find out more, and AV. Getting something up quickly is more important than polishing it. Once it’s in decent shape, we’ll start getting the link out by Twitter — and hopefully any blog posts and emails. Action: Harry to do a first draft.
  • With a compelling call to action, we may have a shot at getting 10% of bloggers to do one post or repost. This is certainly enough to reinforce social network activism campaigns; it may or may not be enough to kick things into overdrive. More details on blogging in a comment.
The hearing on Thursday will be webcast. An ideal time for Twitter and Facebook activism :-) Thanks once again to everybody for participating … more soon! If you get a second to fill out our poll on whether people will have time to help, that’d be great … and as always, if you’re on Twitter, there’s something to retweet:
RT @getfisaright: #patriotact bloggers call: summary and next steps http://is.gd/3NbgI
jon

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Action items from last meeting
  • ACLU to forward on side-by-side info once its available
  • Julian to ask Ron Paul's LA what (if anything) RP's going to do
  • Mark to follow up with ALA
  • John Q to approach OFA folks
  • Manny to send additional OFA contacts
  • done Jon to set up followon phone call
  • Cyn (with help from Jim and Chip) to think about blog post about overseas phone calls
  • done! Jon to send out notes









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