[Peace] Fwd: Promoting civil liberties during the congressional recess

[C. G. Estabrook]

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> With the recent controversy surrounding NSA surveillance, a congressional vote from which the NSA narrowly escaped being defunded by a margin of under 2%, and the August congressional recess, this month offers a profound opportunity to focus your federal representatives on the need to reign in the surveillance state. 
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> To help you raise your voice most effectively, BORDC created an August Toolkit to guide your engagement with federal policymakers while in their home districts, where you live, this month. Download it and contact the BORDC organizing team if you have any questions or take action on its recommendations.
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> The toolkit includes:
> - Talking points on NSA surveillance, descriptions of all twelve proposed bills to curtail NSA spying, and how some could lend themselves to further surveillance
> - Background and updates on legislation related to indefinite detention under the NDAA
> - Organizing tactics to use based on capacity and available resources
> - Suggestions or demands tailored to House Representatives and Senators based on NSA dragnet surveillance, indefinite detention and immigration reform
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> The August Toolkit is comprehensive and easy to implement. It outlines a four-tier engagement strategy to help inform and compel your federal representatives to support four key bills that, if passed, would significantly shrink the reach of NSA surveillance. It also provides language that can be adapted to tell your representatives to introduce amendments for more meaningful immigration reform, and to put an end to the use of indefinite detention.
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> With only 17 days left in the calendar month, we are certain the resources availed in BORDC’s August Toolkit can bolster any current organizing activities on this issue or serve as a fertile input for short term strategic engagement. We strongly encourage this resource be distributed among your organizing collective. Seldom is there a more opportune time to engage your Senators and federal representatives. 
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> To address your questions, BORDC will host two conference calls today August 14 2013.
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> The first call is at 3pm EDT, 1pm PDT
> Number: (415) 854-0547
> Open PIN: 04952
> Conference URL: http://www.uberconference.com/u/sinak
> Etherpad: https://prism.etherpad.mozilla.org/16
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> The second call is at 9pm EDT, 6pm PDT  
> Number: (415) 854-0547
> Open PIN: 04952
> Conference URL: http://www.uberconference.com/u/sinak
> Etherpad: https://prism.etherpad.mozilla.org/16
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> We hope you can make the call!
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> If you have any questions about the information found in the August Toolkit or about the organizer calls, please email organizing at bordc.org.
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> In Solidarity,
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> Shahid Buttar
> Executive Director
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> Bill of Rights Defense Committee
> 8 Bridge Street, Suite A, Northampton, MA 01060
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> www.bordc.org
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> info at bordc.org
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> Telephone: 413-582-0110
> Fax: 413-582-0116
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