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| Anonymous | fashion edhardy caps | JimB's blog post as a potential source for a blog template | 0 | Thursday, 3:03 AM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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| jayskew | ACTA is a privacy concern, and a big one | Discussion Forum | 0 | Nov 25 2009, 10:25 AM EST by jayskew | ||||
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What is ACTA? An international intellectual property trade agreement,
being negotiated in secret by U.S., EU, Japan, et al. Leaked proposed wording indicates it may require ISPs not only to tell law enforcement who is doing what but to disconnect customers for *suspicion* of intellectual property violations: http://www.eff.org/issues/acta Who's against it? Bernie Sanders and Sherrod Brown, for two, and notice their Cc: to Joe Biden: http://keionline.org/sites/default/files/sanders_brown_acta.pdf Should Get FISA Right include ACTA in its campaigns? |
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| jayskew | What about Joe Biden? | Discussion Forum | 0 | Nov 25 2009, 10:23 AM EST by jayskew | ||||
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July 9: Obama voted for FISAA. August 23: Obama announced Joe
Biden as his VP. http://bit.ly/4yvVat 'In the 1990s, Biden was chairman of the Judiciary Committee and introduced a bill called the Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act, which the EFF says he was "persuaded" to do by the FBI. A second Biden bill was called the Violent Crime Control Act. Both were staunchly anti-encryption, with this identical language: "It is the sense of Congress that providers of electronic communications services and manufacturers of electronic communications service equipment shall ensure that communications systems permit the government to obtain the plain text contents of voice, data, and other communications when appropriately authorised by law." That was the proposed legislation that caused Phil Zimmermann to invent PGP, free public key encryption. Zimmermann in August of last year said he never specifically named Biden and Biden has probably changed his tune by now: http://bit.ly/8epAXb Has anybody asked Joe Biden what his current opinion is on wiretapping and privacy issues in general? Biden voted against FISAA, as did Hillary, Chris Dodd, Reid, Schumer, Kerry, etc. http://bit.ly/4s75zo Maybe Biden has changed his tune. Maybe he could help persuade Obama to do the same. Maybe Hillary could help. She's Sec. of State now, after all. Instead of lobbying only Obama, why not also lobby people who can lobby him? Just a thought. |
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| Anonymous | Get FISA Righton Change.Org | November 23 open letter launch call | 1 | Nov 23 2009, 11:21 PM EST by Sallijane | ||||
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Okay, we have a new kind of account at Change.Org, and I have the bare bones presence set up for it. Under its auspices, we've posted a petition using their new petition tool. Here are the things we still need to do:
1. Publicize the petition * The URL is: http://www.change.org/get_fisa_right/actions/view/get_fisa_rights_open_letter_to_president_obama 2. Post a blog on Change.org point to the petition and everything else 3. Those of us who have change.org accounts should join the new non-profit * The URL is: http://www.change.org/get_fisa_right 4. Someone (me at least) needs to buff up our about/mission/history statements * For this you need an account at bloggers.change.org, I believe For those who are confused about our new account and our existing presence on Change.org, here's what Robin at Change.org wrote to me: "creating a nonprofit profile on the site is different from having an Ideas for Change presence. Ideas for change is an annual event and soon we will be launching a new version of the site where people will submit all new ideas. A nonprofit profile is for an organization to use that is going to regularly run campaigns on the site so they can all be housed somewhere." Hope his explanation helps.
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| BleuZ00m | Open Letter update | Discussion Forum | 0 | Nov 16 2009, 1:20 AM EST by BleuZ00m | ||||
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Harry and Mark,
Please share with me Mark's insights on the Open Letter via email in prep for revisions Monday, 11AM EST. Send them to bleuz00m@gmail.com Thanks, Amy Ringenbach Additional links, info to share: Here's that Orwellian-tone LAPD ad touting 'IWatch' in Los Anggles that Jon mentioned: http://trueslant.com/allisonkilkenny/2009/10/24/lapd-freaks-out-america-with-new-orewellian-ad/ from June '09, just how much of our emails ARE being read? http://trueslant.com/level/2009/06/21/why-cant-obama-promise-us-he-isnt-reading-our-e-mails/ Within this piece is a link to a NYT piece that bears a telling quote from 'anonymous' : 'E-Mail Surveillance Renews Concerns in Congress' http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/us/17nsa.html "But after closed-door hearings by three Congressional panels, some lawmakers are asking what the tolerable limits are for such incidental collection and whether the privacy of Americans is being adequately protected. “For the Hill, the issue is a sense of scale, about how much domestic e-mail collection is acceptable,” a former intelligence official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because N.S.A. operations are classified. “It’s a question of how many mistakes they can allow.” *A choice vid clip of Grayson spanking Broun on the Constitution re: bills of attainder.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKz5ZHM8kFM *Why is there such a large installation of surveillance is Lancaster PA.. ' http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/09/10-1 Feingold's press release, 9/17/09: http://feingold.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=317927 |
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| Anonymous | Nice job yall | Fall 2009 open letter to Obama | 0 | Nov 13 2009, 5:48 AM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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Please keep it up. Don't have the energy to participate more actively atm, but I've been lurking and following.
I really think this issue is a good acid test for people of our outlook. |
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| Anonymous | Remembering prior to the election | Fall 2009 open letter to Obama | 0 | Nov 13 2009, 1:52 AM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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I remember hearing you talk about bringing the troops home and also of doing something about the job lossess to our people, now both are very important especially the jobs. Instead of removing jobs over seas, etc., it is time to put our people back to work, there is nothing better than a well paid job for everybody that will put good will out there. All people need to be self supporting and definitely includes the down and outers, the people who are suffering from lack of jobs and still trying very hard to support their families. It is time to end this mirage of war which only benefits the well to do and that eventually will come to an end when we nialate all countries. It is time to take care of our own country, first. The American people when you were running really thought that this was the change you were talking about and I would love to believe that it truly was. Bringing jobs to every community in the USA is definitely a priority and of course bringing our troops home is up there. We need to gather ourselves together and take back our Constitution as it was written for our country. It is the greatest way to go, it helps every person in the USA to know their President wants their constitutional rights restored in total. I am pretty old and have watched this country since the thirties, watched and wondered why. I ask you to not be for war anymore, we don't need it, we all need truth and honest all the way, thankyou very much - I know you understand.
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| BleuZ00m | Followup on IndyMedia | November 10 Organizing Call | 0 | Nov 11 2009, 12:03 AM EST by BleuZ00m | ||||
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| BleuZ00m | Here's the jump from Cenk's 'The Young Turks' page on FB | November 10 Organizing Call | 0 | Nov 10 2009, 7:08 PM EST by BleuZ00m | ||||
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Mind you, this is from last week, inviting TYT fans to step up, step out against the teabaggers last week:
http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2009/11/4/163627/306/Diary/11-5-09-12pm-3-Ways-To-Help-From-Home-TYT-CNN-Update- |
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| Anonymous | send me more on channels of communication | 2009 Communication channels | 2 | Nov 9 2009, 1:57 AM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 16 2009, 12:27 PM EDT
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please help me out
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| MichaelGill | The thing about free advice, you get what you pay for... | Fall 2009 open letter to Obama | 1 | Nov 5 2009, 10:51 AM EST by JonPincus | ||||
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I've missed or missed out on the conference calls so if this been there, done that please ignore. These are the questions I would ask myself: Who can we working with on the committee staff? What is the Chairman's position? If he's anti-, do we have a member who can be our champion? Who do we know at JoD? Do we know who is staffing this at DoJ? Do we know who the WH's point person is for this? Is it Legislative Affairs? NSC? CoS? Do we have the names of the reporters working this story? Are there advocacy groups who's collective brain we can pick? Is there anyone group/org/PAC that has the exact same goal? If they are better funded can we leverage our effort by offering our help in addition to doing what we are doing? That's off the top so If all these are obvious, then chalk it up to great minds thinking alike. I hope I'm wrong but I don't think any progress is going to come from the WH until they get HCR through. But hitting those congressmen on the committee with phone calls to their office is still the best way to ring their bell. Maybe you've already contacted the hometown papers editorial board in their districts to see how many we can get to write an editorial. "It will take an act of patriotism to fix the problems with the Patriot Act" Good Luck! I'm keeping my fingers crossed. @mgill006
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| ddearborn | More thoughts | Fall 2009 open letter to Obama | 1 | Nov 5 2009, 5:58 AM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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I agree that the NPP paragraph should be scrapped. However, if it is decided that we should reference the NPP, the intro should be short and to the point. Perhaps something like...
"Congratulations on winning the highly esteemed NPP; we proudly believe that you are a man on the cusp of greatness." Also, imho, the second paragraph should be scrapped and it's points should be inserted into other sentences as needed. Perhaps the first paragraph in this open letter should be like the third paragraph in the current draft... try something direct to the purpose of this letter... without a long rambling preamble... perhaps... "Patriot Act and FISA reform are once again before Congress; now is the perfect time to follow through on your commitment to preserve American civil liberties and to curb executive branch abuses against the US Constitution." Once the first sentence is settled, it will set the pace and tone of the remaining letter.
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| Anonymous | Betray Our Trust??? | Discussion Forum | 0 | Nov 5 2009, 5:55 AM EST by Anonymous | ||||
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In actuality I feel just that way, betrayed. But to put it in a letter seems nasty - remember General Betrayus? That's a mighty strong word - suggest changing it to "disappoint us".
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| eggy1943 | comtent | Fall 2009 open letter to Obama | 1 | Nov 5 2009, 2:27 AM EST by Hwaisbren | ||||
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I agree with ddearborn and suggest adopting her suggestions.
The tone of the letter seems derogatory to the President. We should be able to site concerns than suggest changes politely.
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| Anonymous | A few suggestions | Fall 2009 open letter to Obama | 1 | Oct 27 2009, 3:06 PM EDT by JonPincus | ||||
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Lose the Nobel Peace Prize line, it adds nothing to the discussion, and it takes up valuable space. The second paragraph that references the response to the first open letter is a much stronger beginning.
Lose the word "horrific" - we don't want to come across as melodramatic. The part about having a hard time seeing behind the scenes work... please. Of course you have a hard time seeing behind the scenes work. That sentence just made me laugh out loud. We urge you to live up to the "morals" of this campaign? Please. We're not talking to the Bush administration here. He made campaign pledges, not "morals." Overall, this letter just needs to be tightened up. Really tightened up.
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| Anonymous | Thoughts Continuedorning to think about the wording of this letter and | Fall 2009 open letter to Obama | 1 | Oct 26 2009, 10:55 PM EDT by JonPincus | ||||
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Dear President Obama, I've taken a few minutes this morning to think about the wording of this letter and offer my suggestions with openness and kindness. The opening of this letter could work, but it feels as if it is a bit dismissive in tone. "Certainly puts you in good company" seems to border on flippancy if read from that angle. "Certainly" creates this tone here. I've reworked the letter and hope that others will continue to shape and direct this important communication. The recent announcement of your Nobel Peace Prize was a reassuring gesture from the world that the global community is listening, hoping, and caring about the future of America again. Today, we write to urge you to honor the spirit of peace and democracy by changing your stance on FISA. With FISA reform in Congress once more, the time is right for change. "Yes we can" protect civil liberties and restore Americans' faith in a government that supports rather than surveils. We understand why your administration worked behind the scenes with Senator Sessions to weaken privacy and civil liberties protections during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Patriot Act reform, but we feel that this issue is more important than reaching across partisan lines, more important than appeasement. When you are weak on civil liberties, the bedrock upon which our democracy is built, you let down the public that worked hard for your election. We expect such practices from the previous administration. Your oath to protect the Constitution is important to the American people. Please follow through on your promises. From here, the letter should detail the past history of the FISA discussions, the Justice Act results, and what we hope Obama will do in the future. Does anyone have these as talking points? Overall, our letter's tone should match Obama's. Best wishes all, Linda
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| ddearborn | Some thought so far... | Fall 2009 open letter to Obama | 1 | Oct 26 2009, 10:53 PM EDT by JonPincus | ||||
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"Congratulations on your Nobel Peace Prize," sounds too flat and like Obama owns the NPP. Perhaps, "Congratulation for winning the NPP", might sound better... emphasizing the contest and being victorious.
"it certainly puts you in good company," sounds too pals-y to my tin ear. Perhaps try something like, "You are now in the pantheon with Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela {and another that Obama admires}." Remind the President that he has yet to meet his greatness. I think we should treat President Obama and respect President Obama for being a man on the cusp of greatness. Greatness takes work. And Obama is going to need a lot of support to achieve greatness. That includes support from us. Also, the power of democracy is best demonstrated when leaders deny themselves, and the future officeholders, of gaining too much power. For example, President George Washington was offered kingship of the US colonies and he turned it down to become our first president. Washington was also asked what superlative he should go by, "Your Highness" and so forth. Washington said, "Just call me 'Mr. President.'" It's time to give up warrantless wiretaps on American citizens. What do you think?
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| Hwaisbren | Initial thoughts on the letter | Fall 2009 open letter to Obama | 0 | Oct 26 2009, 9:49 PM EDT by Hwaisbren | ||||
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1. If we are going to emphasize his peace prize, we should do more to correlate that award with what he is doing/Bush did. In particular, we could make the argument that his prize was at least partially a repudiation of the surveillance policies under the Bush administration, though we would need to be careful about how we craft this aspect in particular.
2. In the first line, I don't really like pointing out that the peace prize "puts him in good company" unless we are going to expand on that. I also think we need a better transition to discussing FISA/Patriot Act---which we could perhaps do to accomodate the "good company" by citing others who have won the award for promoting civil liberties. 3. When discussing Holder, we could cite the "conversation" he admitted was available on civil liberties concerns. 4. We will need an update on what is happening in the HJC hearings, or at least a recognition that those hearings are ongoing. 5. The discussion of Senator Sessions is overtly negative. Of course there is much reason to be extremely critical of him, but it would be fantastic if we could use more "hopeful" rhetoric at least in addition to this. Personally, I would like to add in a play on words of "audacity of hope" or the line the PCCC has been using: "yes we STILL can". 6. I"m not sure if saying we "urge him to live up to the morals of hte campaign" is the best way to describe it. I like citing his campaign a lot, but am not sure that morals is the right word. 7. I'm not sure if we need to say "please do it" as opposed to "please do" in terms of upholding the constitution. 8. Lastly, I don't think we need to say "reject the policies of fear on national security", we could probably just say "reject the policies of fear". ---Harry |
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| Anonymous | What is the "ask"? | Narrative in progress | 1 | Oct 25 2009, 12:37 PM EDT by Hwaisbren | ||||
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When targeting progressive media outlets, how are we asking them to cover this?
I understand a focus of democrat vs democrat and disillusionment with Obama, but I still feel like we lack a hook for what is so newsworthy. I think Marcy Wheeler's blog posts about Obama hiding under Jeff Sessions' skirts could be considered such a hook, but that might be more negative than we want to go considering we will be coming out with a very polite open letter.
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| Sallijane | my e-mail to the president | Strategy and priorities | 2 | Oct 17 2009, 3:52 PM EDT by Sallijane | ||||
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This is the message I sent to Pres. Obama on the White House contact page:Mr. President, Congratulations on your Nobel Peace Prize—it certainly puts you in good company and gives you greater responsibility. I am curious to see how your status as a war president—they are now your wars, no longer Mr. Bush's—and a supporter of continuing the many provisions of the PATRIOT act that I feel have outlived their emergency usefulness, despite the FBI's claims to the contrary (they have a vested interest in making their work easier; my loyalty is to the Constitutional protection from unreasonable search). Naturally, I cannot as a citizen truly evaluate their claims, but if there is indeed a current TERRORISM-RELATED investigation that could be compromised by a nonrenewal of certain provisions, the renewal could be designed in such a way as to "grandfather in" that particular investigation and the provision in question be terminated upon the conclusion of that specific investigation. I was a supporter during your presidential campaign; I am a member of GetFISARight on Organizing for America and elsewhere, and I hope that the confidence in you that is expressed by the Nobel committee proves to be justified. Please, for our world, our nation, and yourself, make it so!
I offer it as the basis of our group letter, if you so choose, or start new! But please, let's get started!
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