A Great Day For Civil Liberties
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Harry Waisbren
Nov 5, 2009, 6:23:45 PM11/5/09
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Today has been a great one for the fight for civil liberties! The House
Judiciary Committee met to finish their markup of the USA Patriot
Amendments Act of 2009, and low and behold, we receive a big win as the HJC voted 16-10 to send the bill to the floor with most of the major reforms left intact.
However, with the victory in hand, we need to ensure that momentum does not wane as we gear up for the fight ahead. We are already planning for our next organizing call for this upcoming Tuesday, so please let us know what times you can make it. In the meantime, our suggested tweets provide a variety of options to send. We are also pushing forward on our Open Letter to President Obama in a big way, and are striving for as much input as we can get for this crowdsourced effort.
Lastly, the two days largely spent tweetchatting away in the Patriot Act Action Hub have been an enormous success. Rounding thank yous to Amy, Kevin, Julian, Jim, Brandon, Rebecca, Jon, Korkie, Jeff, and Brishen for chiming in the chat log, to the myriad of tweeters whose tweets were aggregated in the feed, and to anyone else who followed along!
---Harry
However, with the victory in hand, we need to ensure that momentum does not wane as we gear up for the fight ahead. We are already planning for our next organizing call for this upcoming Tuesday, so please let us know what times you can make it. In the meantime, our suggested tweets provide a variety of options to send. We are also pushing forward on our Open Letter to President Obama in a big way, and are striving for as much input as we can get for this crowdsourced effort.
Lastly, the two days largely spent tweetchatting away in the Patriot Act Action Hub have been an enormous success. Rounding thank yous to Amy, Kevin, Julian, Jim, Brandon, Rebecca, Jon, Korkie, Jeff, and Brishen for chiming in the chat log, to the myriad of tweeters whose tweets were aggregated in the feed, and to anyone else who followed along!
---Harry
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