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<strong>Oliver Stone, stars push for Snowden asylum</strong><br>
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<span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial"><p>Director
Oliver Stone is joining with such notables as Noam Chomsky, Daniel
Ellsberg, former Ambassador Joe Wilson and Tom Hayden to encourage
Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa to grant Edward Snowden’s asylum
request.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/1421" target="_blank">letter</a>
posted on the Just Foreign Policy website, the signatories pen a letter
to Correa and write, “Snowden’s disclosures have already done much to
unveil the alarming scale of U.S. government spying on its own citizens
and on people around the world.”</p>
<p>“They have revealed severe overreach by the U.S.’ National Security
Agency (NSA), which seeks to gather an overwhelming and invasive amount
of information on people within the United States. Snowden has also
revealed that the constant NSA surveillance also applies to millions of
people outside the U.S., whose phone calls, emails and other
communications are also indiscriminately targeted.”</p>
<p>The letter is also signed by some actors, including Danny Glover, Amber Heard, Shia LaBeouf, John Cusack and Roseanne Barr.</p>
<p>The letter concludes by saying that “rather than pursue reforms that
would protect the rights of people in the U.S. and around the world, the
Obama administration again seeks to silence those who have brought
these abuses to light. These are actions of political repression, and
you would be right to grant Snowden political asylum.”</p>
<p>Just Foreign Policy describes itself as “an independent and
nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to reforming U.S. foreign
policy by mobilizing and organizing the broad majority of Americans who
want a foreign policy based on diplomacy, law and cooperation.”</p></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>-- <br>Robert Naiman<br>
Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br>
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