Here's how we fought back against the nsa on 11FEB14

DEMOCRACY is not a spectator sport, it requires participation by those living in the democracy. Bold Progressive democratic organizations have joined together to fight the nsa and our government's illegal and immoral spying and surveillance of US! Tuesday, 11FEB14 was a very successful day of action, check out the results. We can end the government's spying and surveillance activities, we just have to keep up the pressure. From Demand Progress.....
Tuesday was amazing.  Working with scores of organizations, and thousands of sites, and hundreds of thousands of activists, we organized the largest online privacy protest ever.  
Nearly 100,000 calls were placed to Congress on that day, melting the phone lines and making it clear that we will persist in the fight to end mass surveillance.
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On Tuesday we sought to make a dent, while laying a foundation for escalation over the months to come:  It was a tremendous success.
We demonstrated that civil society organizations, hundreds of thousands of activists, and major corporations are willing to bring coordinated pressure to bear on lawmakers.
Just a few highlights:

• Scores of organizations from across the political spectrum banded together.
• Thousands of sites urged their visitors to take action.  
• Google formally endorsed the USA FREEDOM Act, which would end bulk data collection.  
• Twitter tweeted to nearly 30 million people in support.  
• Dozens of lawmakers issued statements of support.
• NSA acolyte Senator Dianne Feinstein was on the run from her own constituents.

We will persist, we will escalate, and we will win.
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Onward.
-Demand Progress

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February 11th, 2014 was The Day We Fought Back against mass surveillance

The Day We Fought Back: by the numbers

Thanks to everyone who participated on Tuesday. Together we demonstrated that activists, organizations, and companies can work in unison to fight mass surveillance, and laid a foundation for escalation over months to come.
Below are some numbers that quantify how we did* on Tuesday.

* The figures below represent a lower bound - at least tens of thousands of people took action independently and using tools on other sites. The statistics below do not account for that activity.

• 37,000,000

  People saw the banner

  Over 24 million Americans and 13 million non-Americans saw The Day We Fight Back banner on Tuesday.

• 555,000

  Emails sent

  185,000 Americans registered to send over 555,000 emails, two each to their two Senators and one to their Representative.



• 89,000

  Calls completed

  The total number of completed calls reached 89,000 and another 7,000 calls went uncompleted because some legislators turned off their voicemail inboxes.

• 301,000

  Signatures

  245,000 people internationally signed the necessaryandproportionate.org petition to demand privacy as a human right. Another 56,000 joined petitions on causes.com and change.org.



• 420,000+

  Facebook shares

  This just the number of times the website itself was shared on Facebook.

• 84,000+

  Tweets

  This is just the number of times the thedaywefightback.org was shared on Twitter. #StopSpying and #StopTheNSA were trending on Twitter during the afternoon.



• 1,000,000+

  Homepage visitors

  The banner, social media and at least 6,000 websites drove over 1 million unique visitors to the homepage.

What if slow Gmail is just the start? Tell the FCC: Preserve Net Neutrality! 26JAN14

THE internet shouldn't be for sale to the highest bidder, but right now it is thanks to a recent court ruling in a case started by verizon. Please sign this petition from ACLU Action and share with family, friends and coworkers...

The Internet can now be sold to the highest bidder. Tell the FCC to do its job and preserve net neutrality. Have you ever received a notice like this: Dear Broadband Customer, Sorry your requested website is loading slowly—Sony Music Entertainment has purchased today’s hi-speed Comcast bandwidth and it seems you are not within their target demographic. To remedy this, please select a Miley Cyrus video to watch or try loading your New York Times article again tomorrow. Well time is running out—if we don’t act now, we may start seeing this all the time. That’s because a federal appeals court just struck down the FCC’s rules that until now have prevented Internet providers from blocking or slowing down some website content and speeding up other content. In order to boost their profits, Internet Service Providers like Verizon and Comcast can now charge websites extra fees to send us their content at a faster speed. And nothing is stopping them from blocking content they don’t like altogether. In this unregulated environment, the Internet may quickly be sold to the highest bidder, chilling the free speech we now enjoy online. The good news is that the court’s ruling left the door open for the FCC to fix all of this by reclassifying broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service: Sign the petition now telling the FCC to keep the Internet open and defend ‘net neutrality’. This Thursday, we’re going to march down to the FCC office with our friends at Free Press, Demand Progress, and other organizations to deliver hundreds of thousands of petitions calling on the FCC to keep the Internet free from the heavy hand of profits and corporate objectives. Time and again the FCC has given in to furious corporate lobbying and has failed to reclassify broadband Internet as a telecommunications service—the one thing that would ensure our equal access to all that the Internet has to offer. We need to speak louder than corporate interests, and if ACLU supporters join this fight, we can push the FCC to do the right thing. This is a fight to preserve the democratic nature of the Internet itself, let’s make sure we win. Join hundreds of thousands of activists and sign the petition now calling on the FCC to do its job and preserve the openness of the Internet. Thanks for taking action, Anthony for the ACLU Action team

TSUNAMI TO END INDEFINITE DETENTION 29NOV12

THE vote on the NDAA ( see my earlier post at NDAA Vote This Week: Tell Senate to end indefinite detention 28NOV12
   ) will probably happen today and there is an amendment on indefinite detention that must be included. If you haven't contacted your Senators demanding they support amendments eliminating indefinite detention please do so now using the links below....
We just heard from a Senate ally who told us that there's probably a vote TOMORROW (that's Thursday).
Sorry to bombard you with emails tonight, but there's extraordinary urgency now.
Will you help us create a social media tsunami in opposition to indefinite detention?
We built out two social media tools to help us win this fight:

• Please click here to use our fun "detain-a-friend" tool to spread word using FACEBOOK.

• And use our TWITTER tool to tweet directly at your senators -- their Twitter handlers will see it right away.
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• Tell the Senate to end indefinite detention, e mail your Senators 

The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act allowed the United States military to detain civilians indefinitely and without charge or trial -- even American citizens.
The Senate is taking up the 2013 NDAA this week.  Several senators are poised to put forth amendments to revoke or narrow the indefinite detention powers that we've been fighting so hard over the last year.
Moments ago The Huffington Post reported on the amendment that's being offered by a bipartisan group of 11 senators:

"Declaring that a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 put the country on a path to repeat the shame of World War II's internment camps, they argued the offending language should be stricken in this year's defense bill."

We need to get the backs of these courageous senators.
Please use our social media tools to help spread word about indefinite detention and pressure the Senate to reverse it:

• Please click here to use our fun "detain-a-friend" tool to spread word using FACEBOOK.

• And use our TWITTER tool to tweet directly at your senators -- their Twitter handlers will see it right away.
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• E mail your Senators and tell them to end indefinite detention 

This is still a heavy lift, and we need to organize on every front that's available to us.  Please help us bring as much pressure as possible to bear on the Senate.
-Demand Progress.

NDAA Vote This Week: Tell Senate to end indefinite detention 28NOV12

NDAA is still being debated in the Senate and we have a real chance to get amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act eliminating indefinite detention. It is crucial that your Senators hear from you on this issue this week, so please click the link and send your Senators a message demanding they support the amendments to eliminate or at the least severely restrict indefinite detention...

The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act allows the United States military to detain civilians indefinitely and without charge or trial -- even American citizens.
Help us reverse this travesty of justice by clicking here and emailing your senators.
The Senate is taking up the 2013 NDAA this week.  Several senators are poised to put forth amendments to revoke or narrow the indefinite detention powers that we've been fighting so hard over the last year.
Demand Progress members have sent hundreds of thousands of emails to Congress and have helped fund the courageous lawsuit by Chris Hedges et al -- which recently spurred a federal judge to rule that indefinite detention is unconstitutional.
Because there are several amendments in play, our ask is broad and simple: Please urge your Senators to support any and all amendments to revoke or narrow indefinite detention powers.
Earlier this year we helped push an anti-indefinite detention amendment to the House's version of the NDAA to the brink of passage.  The Senate is friendly turf for us: We have a real chance of winning this fight.

Please email the Senate in front of its critical vote -- it could happen this week.

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