[Peace-discuss] Jan. 25 PATRIOT Act Call-In Day

[C. G. Estabrook]

Senator Richard Durbin  202.224.2152
Senator Barack Obama  202.224.2854 
Representative Tim Johnson  202.225.2371


>   January 25, National PATRIOT Act Call-In Day!
>
>   Please join the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and
>   tens of thousands of allies throughout the U.S. in
>   an overwhelming grassroots response to the PATRIOT
>   Act and other governmental excesses. Your phone
>   calls to your senators and representative can help
>   end Big Brother run amok.
>
>   The USA PATRIOT Act gave the FBI increased authority
>   to wiretap your phone and monitor your e-mail. It
>   also enabled the government to demand your medical,
>   financial and student records from third-parties
>   such as banks, vendors, doctors’ offices, and
>   libraries, without linking you to a terrorism
>   investigation. Furthermore, it prevents anyone who
>   is required to turn over your records from ever
>   telling you or anyone else, even if the records
>   turned up no wrongdoing.
>
>   Very soon Congress will have a chance to repair some
>   of the PATRIOT Act’s worst excesses. In December
>   2005, a bipartisan group of senators filibustered to
>   stop the passage of a bill to reauthorize the 16
>   PATRIOT Act provisions that would have expired,
>   because the bill did not protect our civil
>   liberties. Congress’s temporary extension of those
>   provisions will run out on February 3, 2006.
>
>   Your phone calls to your senators and representative
>   in support of meaningful reforms can make the
>   difference in restoring our rights to privacy, free
>   speech, and due process.
>
>   Please phone both your Senators and your
>   Representative and urge them to work for a PATRIOT
>   Act reauthorization bill that truly preserves
>   privacy and free speech, and that restores checks
>   and balances, including judicial review and much
>   greater congressional oversight.
>
>     * Click here for talking points and phone numbers,
>       and to let us know how your calls went, OR
>     * Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 (24
>       hours), and ask the operator to connect you.
>
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>
>   Other organizations supporting the call-in day
>   (partial list) include the Alliance for Justice,
>   American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee,
>   American Civil Liberties Union, American Library
>   Association, Amnesty International USA, Campaign for
>   Reader Privacy, Center for Democracy and Technology,
>   Code Pink, Council on American-Islamic Relations,
>   First Amendment Foundation, Friends Committee on
>   National Legislation, Global Exchange, League of
>   United Latin American Citizens, League of Women
>   Voters, Liberty Coalition, MoveOn.org Political
>   Action, National Lawyers Guild, People For the
>   American Way, Rights Working Group, San Francisco
>   Labor Council, True Majority, Unitarian Universalist
>   Association, and United Electrical, Radio and
>   Machine Workers of America.
>