[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:16908] Fwd: [MEMBER-FORUM:614] Support the Freedom to Read Amendment

[Al Kagan]

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> From: Mark Rosenzweig <iskra at earthlink.net>
> Date: June 13, 2005 2:50:07 PM CDT
> To: SRRT Action Council <srrtac-l at ala.org>
> Subject: [SRRTAC-L:16908] Fwd: [MEMBER-FORUM:614] Support the Freedom 
> to Read Amendment
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>> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 14:38:37 -0500
>> From: "Don Wood" <dwood at ala.org>
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>> Subject: [MEMBER-FORUM:614] Support the Freedom to Read Amendment
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>> Support the Freedom to Read Amendment
>> http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=17226
>>
>> Contributed by Working Assets
>>
>> Within the next few days, Congress will vote on a bipartisan proposal 
>> to protect the freedom to read threatened by the USA PATRIOT Act.
>>
>> When the PATRIOT Act was rushed through Congress soon after 9/11, one 
>> of the little noticed provisions was Section 215 which severely 
>> expands the scope of materials the FBI can access with a warrant from 
>> the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court. In short, the FBI 
>> can demand that bookstores and libraries hand over lists of all of 
>> their patrons and what books they've purchased or borrowed. Adding 
>> insult to injury, it also prevents bookstore owners and librarians 
>> from telling patrons they're being watched or searched.
>>
>> The proposed amendment would prohibit the Department of Justice from 
>> using any money in its budget to search a library or bookseller using 
>> the wide-sweeping powers granted under Section 215 of the PATRIOT 
>> Act. The amendment would restore and protect the privacy and First 
>> Amendment rights of library and bookstore patrons which were in place 
>> before the USA PATRIOT Act.
>>
>> Call to action
>>
>> The vote on the Freedom to Read Amendment will happen as early as the 
>> afternoon of Tuesday, June 14th. Please contact your representative 
>> immediately and ask him or her to support the Freedom to Read 
>> Amendment to protect American's civil rights and freedom to read.
>
>
> -- 
> MARK C ROSENZWEIG
>
>

Al Kagan
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61820
USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax 217-333-2214
akagan at uiuc.edu
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