Get FISA Right: dailyish update
Published February 05, 2009 @ 12:05PM PT
Note: see the Communications Channels post and the Next dailyish update page on the wiki for more on the "daily update" process. There's plenty of room for improvement; feedback welcome. If anybody would like to volunteer to do the next daily update, please leave a comment!
Next conference call
Saturday February 7, 2 p.m. Pacific/5 PM eastern. Topics: communications, change.org, ad.
Draft agenda and dialin information at http://tinyurl.com/ccxedh
Facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122117005117
MyBO event: http://my.barackobama.com/page/event/detail/gpt2dy
change.org update
First post up at http://www.change.org/ideas/28/view_blog/greetings_to_the_changeorg_community -- please stop by and introduce yourself! I'll also post the dailyish update there.
Volunteers Needed
- Wiki help wanted! There's a list of to-dos at http://get-fisa-right.wetpaint.com/todos/updated
- bloggers wanted! http://getfisaright.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/bloggers-wanted/
FISA In the news
of interest: the PBS show “NOVA” is broadcasting “The Spy Factory” this week. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spyfactory/
Please leave links to other FISA stories in the comments!
Comments
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Author
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Jon Pincus
- Bellevue, WA
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Jon is a strategist, writer, and activist living in the Seattle area, currently working on Tales from the Net (a book on social networks co-authored with Deborah Pierce and his brother Greg). As well as being an organizer for Get FISA Right, he's vice-chair for online visibility for the 2009 ACM Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference. He blogs about these and other topics at Liminal States and elsewhere.
Boy, this was an ugly post. It's probably worth taking more time to format the next one.
Posted by Jon Pincus on 02/11/2009 @ 12:15PM PT
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I'm not sure what the messag3e is here, but I hope people realize that this issue (ie.- The Bill of Rights) is the key to all of the others that have been raised. If the government can spy on you at will, and violate your rights (as they have in recent years) the time will come when a government will use those powerds to manipulate public policy in ways that will deprive you of all control.
I'm deeply disapointed that this issue didn't end up on the top ten list.
Posted by Elton Carey on 02/23/2009 @ 10:21AM PT
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