Urgent: Say NO to Big Brother. STOP CISPA, THE ONLINE SPYING BILL from CREDO ACTION 26APR12

THE vote on cispa will happen tomorrow, 27APR12, so we need as many people as possible to call Congress and demand they vote against this law and to protect our civil liberties. Click the link from Credo to participate.....

Click below for a sample script and the number to call: We need to send a clear message to everyone in Congress that we shouldn't sacrifice our civil liberties in the name of national security. With a vote scheduled for Friday, we need you to make a call today. TAKE ACTION NOW Urgent: Stop the online spying bill. We need to speak out today to stop a bill that would greatly expand the power of the federal government and big corporations to spy on us as we use the Internet. The legislation is official named the "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act," but more commonly called by the acronym "CISPA." Supporters of CISPA are cynically using the legitimate need to protect our vital national interests from cyber attacks as an excuse to give the government and private companies the authority to read, watch and listen to everything we do on the Internet. A vote on CISPA will happen tomorrow. So speakout today. Pick up the phone and tell your member of Congressto stop the online spying bill. Click here for a sample script and the number to call. The folks behind CISPA claim that national security interests make this surveillance necessary. But the bill's language is so vague and overreaching that it opens the door for rampant abuse of our online rights: CISPA would allow companies and the government to bypass privacy protections and spy on your email traffic, comb through your text messages, filter your online content and even block access to popular websites. CISPA would permit companies to give the government your Facebook data, Twitter history and cellphone contacts. It would also allow the government to search your email using the vaguest of justifications — and without any real legal oversight. CISPA contains sweeping language that could be used as a blunt weapon to silence whistleblower websites like WikiLeaks and the news organizations that publish their revelations. CISPA would create a culture in which we refrain from speaking freely online for fear that the National Security Agency could come knocking. Make a call and tell your member of Congressto stop the online spying bill. Click here for a sample script and the number to call. This week, in response to concerns from civil liberty and consumer advocates, members of Congress proposed five amendments they said would allay those concerns. But even with these changes, CISPA would still give the NSA — the domestic spying agency — additional power to snoop on our texts, our emails, our web history and everything else we do online. The White House agrees that this is a problem. Yesterday, it made the surprising move to publicly oppose CISPA. While the White House's opposition to CISPA is welcome, CISPA is just the latest in a series of ill-conceived attacks on our online civil liberties. So we need to send a clear message to everyone in Congress that we shouldn't sacrifice our civil liberties in the name of national security. That is why we need you to make a call regardless of where your member of Congress stands on this issue. Members of Congress who are with us, need to know their constituents support them. And members of Congress who aren't with us, need to be put on notice that their constituents don't want them to sell us out. With a vote expected tomorrow, we need you to make a call today. Tell your member of Congress to stop the online spying bill. Click the link below for a sample script and the number to call: http://act.credoaction.com/call/report/signup.html?cp_id=221 Thank you for standing up for our civil liberties. Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager CREDO Action from Working Assets

CISPA & Facebook Spies from SAVE THE INTERNET / FREE PRESS 20APR12

MORE than one million e mails to Congress opposing cispa, that is impressive. The vote is next week, click the link to sign up for alerts so you can call your Representative once the vote schedule is announced.

Dear Craig, This week, more than a million people sent letters urging Congress to say "NO" to CISPA — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (HR 3523) — which could give the government unchecked power to spy on us online. Another 100,000 people tweeted this message to their member of Congress. The sponsors of the bill are feeling the pressure, but our work is far from over. Next week the House of Representatives will vote on CISPA. Once we find out the timing of the vote, we'll need to quickly generate thousands of calls to Congress to stop CISPA in its tracks. Can we count on you when the moment arrives? Here’s how you can help: Take the CISPA pledge. Click here to pledge to call your representative when the time comes. We’ll follow up as soon as we know more about the vote. Forward this email to 5 friends. Get them to take the CISPA pledge, too. Please take the pledge to make the call. We’ll be back in touch when it’s time to light up the phones. Thanks for helping to protect our right to communicate online. —Josh, Tessa, Tim and the Free Press Action Fund team. P.S. CISPA is the latest threat to Internet freedom, but it's far from the last. Donate $10 today to help the Free Press Action Fund fight for our online rights for the long haul.

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