Stand with Edward Snowden – #snowden #nsa #fisa #prism #privacy #rights #surveillance #tcot #tgdn

I just signed a campaign to help this amazing guy who gave up everything to protect all of us from government spies. I think you'll like it. Check it out:

Join me in standing with him: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_prism_global/?kjGZrbb

Let’s show Rand he is abit too conservative in his estimate ;-). Everyone should join the lawsuit. #nsa #fisa #prism http://bit.ly/1410sP5

Let's show Rand he is abit too conservative in his estimate . Everyone should join the lawsuit. #nsa #fisa #prism http://bit.ly/1410sP5

‘Digital Blackwater’: NSA Leak Highlights Key Role of Private Contr actors

'Digital Blackwater': NSA Leak Highlights Key Role of Private Contractors

via (title unknown) by jacob on 6/11/13

Like the mercenaries for hire used by the U.S. in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and New Orleans—contractors like Blackwater that have come under scrutiny for their extreme lack of oversight—the U.S. government has been outsourcing intelligence services to private companies who have access to the general population's most sensitive information.

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Thank NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden

Sign a thank-you note that will be delivered to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. And see video of him.
http://bit.ly/14NKKFJ

Stop the NSA from gathering data via social media web site servers

Hi,

On or about June 5th, 2013 national press releases stated the NSA was granted by nine of the largest tech firms on the internet to gather data from their servers.  This is violation of all American's personal freedom and must stop.

That's why I signed a petition to The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama, which says:

"Stop the invasion of personal privacy by the National Security Agency using internet social media web site servers.  Regulate what data may be gathered by the NSA and how it may be gathered."

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-nsa-from-gathering?source=s.icn.em.mt&r_by=985589

Thanks!

CONFIRMED- they’re spying on you right now

Friends: Please see this urgent email I just received from Demand Progress.

The revelations of spying on telephone customers are extraordinary —
but it gets even worse. The government is spying, in real time, on
rank-and-file Internet users. From the Guardian:

The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems
of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to
a top secret document obtained by the Guardian.

The NSA access is part of a previously undisclosed program called
PRISM, which allows officials to collect material including search
history, the content of emails, file transfers and live chats, the
document says.

CLick here to call for investigation of this massive surveillance
overreach: http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/nsa_internet/?referring_akid=.45919.DIgdOG&source=taf

Let’s put it plainly: It has been conclusively demonstrated that the
government is spying on millions of Americans, without meaningful
oversight, and without the assent of the very people — all of us —
whom our government is supposed to represent.

Click here to call for an investigation and hold the federal
government accountable:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/nsa_internet/?referring_akid=.45919.DIgdOG…

The top secret document obtained by the Guardian also lists Microsoft,
Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, and AOL as providers of user data to the NSA’s
PRISM program.

Those who have defended the government’s enhanced cyber serveillance
powers in the past argued that the NSA would have to get the consent
of internet companies to obtain electronic communications — but PRISM
totally circumvents that, by giving the NSA direct access to the
companies’ servers!

Click here to condemn this enormous violation of our rights and demand
an investigation:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/nsa_internet/?referring_akid=.45919.DIgdOG…

All this effectively means anything we do on the internet can be (and
has been) monitored by the federal government.

We must not lie down as the NSA and the federal government eviscerate
our privacy rights, invading and surveilling our every move.

Click here to join the fight:
http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/nsa_internet/?referring_akid=.45919.DIgdOG…

Thanks

This is shocking

Dear friend,

A leaked court document obtained by The Guardian, and since reported on by numerous news outlets, has exposed the government spying on Americans.

Using the Patriot Act, the U.S. government has been secretly tracking the calls of every Verizon Business Network Services customer – whom they talked to, from where, and for how long – for the past 41 days.

It's time to get angry. Be part of a strong public outcry against this program by signing the petition immediately and letting your friends know what's happening in this country.

https://www.aclu.org/secure/stop-massive-spying-program?Ms=taf_acluaction_NSA_130606

Thanks

You Could Encourage the Nevada Governor to Veto Gun Control!

Fwd: CONFIRMED- they’re spying on you

It's an outrage: The Guardian has obtained long sought-after evidence of the extent of ongoing spying on Americans under the PATRIOT Act — and it's as bad as we'd worried.

"The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April."

"The order, a copy of which has been obtained by the Guardian, requires Verizon on an "ongoing, daily basis" to give the NSA information on all telephone calls in its systems, both within the US and between the US and other countries."

Click here to demand and investigation of — and end to — this spying right away:

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/patriot_verizon/?referring_akid=2172.45919.ixXGcv&source=taf

The government is continuing — and expanding — egregious spying and other infringement on our civil liberties that began under the Bush administration.  And enough is enough!

Please sign on to our petition to the House Oversight Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee to demand an immediate investigation of this spying.

Just click here:

http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/patriot_verizon/?referring_akid=2172.45919.ixXGcv&source=taf
 

Keep GE Salmon Off Our Tables

Keep GE Salmon Off Our Tables: Tell Supermarkets, Food Companies, and Seafood Restaurants to Reject GE Salmon!

SIGN NOW: http://bit.ly/KeepGeSalmonOffOurTables

Center for Food Safety (CFS), along with Friends of the Earth and a coalition of thirty consumer, food safety, fishing, environmental, sustainable agriculture, parent, public health and animal welfare organizations, have launched a national Campaign for GE-Free Seafood. Over the last month, they’ve sent letters to the nation’s top grocery stores, seafood companies, and seafood restaurants asking them to commit to not sell genetically engineered fish should it come to market.

Some of the biggest grocery stores in the U.S. have already replied, stating that they will not sell genetically engineered salmon in their stores, including Whole Foods, Target, Trader Joes, Giant Eagle, Meijer, Raley’s, Marsh Supermarkets, Aldi, H-E-B, Hy-Vee, and PCC Natural Markets. Seafood companies like Crown Prince and EcoFish have also told CFS they will not buy GE salmon. Additionally, over 400 chefs and restaurants have signed CFS’s Pledge for GE-Free Fish stating that they will not intentionally purchase, sell, or serve genetically engineered salmon in their restaurants. Together, these supermarkets, seafood companies and restaurants are showing that they care about consumers and sustainable fisheries. But there are a lot more companies yet to sign!

Since the FDA has stated that it will likely not require GE fish to be labeled, consumers will have no way of avoiding the fish at the market unless companies make clear to consumers where they stand on the issue.

Help urge these companies to take a position rejecting GE salmon!
SIGN NOW: http://bit.ly/KeepGeSalmonOffOurTables

SIGN THE PETITION: http://bit.ly/KeepGeSalmonOffOurTables

I signed this petition about the Koch brothers — now can you?

Friend,

The climate change denying, union-busting, voter disenfranchising billionaires want to create a mouthpiece for their right-wing, “free market” ideals by buying eight newspapers from the Tribune Company, including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and others. We have to stop them.

Use the link below to sign the petition with me. Then can you share with some of your friends, as well?
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/kochs_tribune/?sp_ref=.4.120.e.0.2&referrer_akid=7974.2988458.NVLoz0&source=mailto_sp

#Guantanamo ends now – #gitmo #closegitmo

We could finally see the shameful Guantanamo prison camp shut down, but it's going to take a final global push for President Obama to do the right thing.

Join me in this campaign here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/obama_shut_down_gitmo_us/?kjGZrbb

Tell the Senate: Repeal the Monsanto Proection Act

Senator Jeff Merkley is introducing an amendment to repeal the Monsanto Protection Act – the outrageous provision which allows Monsanto and other companies  to ignore court orders to stop selling their GMO seeds, despite safety concerns. Tell the Senate to take action: http://act.credoaction.com/sign/monsanto_protection_act/?sp_ref=.4.125.e.539.2&referrer_akid=7959.2988458.3HNdni&source=mailto_sp

Give students the same interest rates on loans as the big banks

Hi,

I signed a petition to The United States House of Representatives and
The United States Senate which says:

“Wall Street banks – the ones that wrecked our economy – should not be
getting a better interest rate on their government loans than young
people trying to go to college.”

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/give-students-the-same?source=s.em.cp&r_…

Thanks!

De-Fund the CIA

Lies about Iraq. Cash to corrupt Afghanistan. Drone war blowback endangering us all. De-fund the CIA! http://bit.ly/10E98XN

IRS stalls NAGR- #holder #obama #doj #2a #nra #rkba #tcot #tgdn #rights #privacy #gunrights #molonlabe

proclus@gnu-darwin.org has sent you a personal message: NAGR is highly recommended, and a great gun rights group. The fact that they are being harassed by the IRS comes as no surprise, and seems to confirm that the harassment is politically motivated. Regards, proclus http://www.gnu-darwin.org/ ———————

Dear GNU-Darwin Action Group, What else will you and I find out? Every day, more facts about the Obama administration’s radical third-world tactics hits the news . . . Last week, you and I learned the Obama administration wiretapped Associated Press reporters. But perhaps the worst of it all was that the Obama administration used the IRS to target and harass political enemies! In fact, the National Foundation for Gun Rights non-profit filing with the IRS is still yet to be approved after 19 months — and I can’t help but think I’ve been one of the IRS 500 top targets for “extra scrutiny.” GNU-Darwin Action Group, months ago, as the fight over gun control just began to rear its ugly head, your National Association for Gun Rights drew a line in the sand . . . No more gun control.  No deals.  Not one more gun owner’s name.  Not a single bit more information about American gun owners for the federal government.  PERIOD. Stories like these are exactly why. Today, I’m counting on you to sign a NEW No Gun Control/No Deals petition to your U.S. Congressman and Senators IMMEDIATELY. If you've already signed your new petition, I’m counting on you to forward this email to every pro-gun friend and family member you have. The Obama administration is clearly drunk on power. Early in President Obama’s first term, you and I learned firsthand the lengths his administration would go to try and RAM gun control down our throats when they just looked the other way while bloodthirsty Mexican gangs ran guns across the border — resulting in the tragic death of U.S. Border patrol agent Brian Terry. That should have tipped enough folks off . . . But it didn’t. And in December of last year, after the horrific tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, the Obama administration jumped into action, pushing a massive wish list of anti-gun schemes, thinking they had the perfect excuse to ram gun control down our throats. Not one would have made an ounce of difference. Criminals and killers don’t get their guns legally. Like the Newtown killer, they often steal them. GNU-Darwin Action Group, I know I’m not breaking any news here, but the gun-grabbers know all of this. *** They don’t want more “background checks” (GUN REGISTRATION) to prevent murders. *** They don’t want an expanded federal “NO GUN” database to keep the mentally ill from getting their hands on guns. *** They don’t even want to ramp up penalties on gun crimes to stop “straw purchasers.” They want our names, our information and records of our gun purchases so they can set the stage for the day they can finally CONFISCATE our guns. And they prey on Americans’ fears of “too much freedom” and politicians’ desire to appear “reasonable” to hasten that day. Well, as Thomas Jefferson said, “I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.” And I have one simple message to politicians in BOTH parties. If you think it’s “reasonable” to hand this President and this lawless administration more information about American gun owners after all the outrageousness you and I see hitting the news, THINK AGAIN. GNU-Darwin Action Group, if you and I hand over our freedom and our liberties, it WILL eventually be abused by those in power — regardless of whether it’s President Obama or someone else occupying the White House. I’m tired of watching Washington, D.C. strip away our liberties. And I want to do everything I possibly can to ensure our Second Amendment freedoms aren’t flushed away from members of both political parties in Congress. If you agree, I’m counting on you to do two things . . . First, sign your new No Gun Control/No Deals petition to your U.S. Congressman and Senators IMMEDIATELY. During the last fight on gun control, your National Association for Gun Rights delivered literally every petition we had. I need to reload.  And FAST. Secondly, please forward this email to every pro-gun friend and family member you have. Thirdly, please chip in $20 TODAY. Your generous contribution will help me reach even more Second Amendment supporters. But if that’s too much, please agree to $10 or at least $5 immediately. GNU-Darwin Action Group, Members of Congress who want to hand this President — or any other — more information about American gun owners after the news of the last week need to have their head checked. You and I have a chance to seize the momentum in this fight over gun control. But we have to act. So please sign your NEW No Gun Control/No Deals petition, forward this email to as many friends and family members as you can, and chip in $10 or $20 TODAY. For Freedom, Dudley Brown Executive Vice President P.S. Members of Congress who want to hand this President — or any other — more information about American gun owners after the news of the last week, need to have their head checked. If you agree, please sign your NEW No Gun Control/No Deals petition, forward this email to as many friends and family members as you can, and chip in $10 or $20 TODAY. The National Association for Gun Rights is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, single-purpose citizens' organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the Constitutionally protected right-to-keep-and-bear-arms through an aggressive program designed to mobilize public opposition to anti-gun legislation. The National Association for Gun Rights' mailing address is P.O. Box 7002, Fredericksburg, VA 22404. They can be contacted toll-free at 1-877-405-4570. Its web address is www.NationalGunRights.org/ Not produced or e-mailed at taxpayer expense. To help the National Association for Gun Rights grow, please forward this to a friend. To view this email as a web page, please click this link: view online. Help fight gun control. Donate to the National Association for Gun Rights!

I just signed this — will you?

The interest rates on federal student loans will double this July if Congress doesn't take action. Fortunately, Senator Elizabeth Warren has introduced legislation that would provide a one-year fix to the impending doubling of students' rate by setting the student loan interest rate at the same level the Federal Reserve offers to big banks.

Senator Warren's legislation is powerful and to the point. We bailed out the big banks. Why then deny students who weren't responsible for wrecking our economy the same deal we give the banks?

I just signed a petition urging my senator to co-sponsor Senator Warren's student loans bill. I hope you will do the same.

http://act.credoaction.com/sign/warren_bankonstudents/?sp_ref=.4.111.e.0.2&referrer_akid=7932.2988458.Gdscu_&source=mailto_sp

I just signed this, you should too.

It was recently revealed that the Department of Justice secretly seized two months of telephone records of a large number of Associated Press reporters.

This unprecedented, indiscriminate surveillance of journalists is an attack on the First Amendment that will have a chilling effect on the ability of these journalists and others to function as a free press.

And unfortunately, it is only the most recent case of overreach by the Justice Department in its overzealous pursuit of whistleblowers.

Tell Attorney General Eric Holder: Stop attacking the First Amendment and end your war on whistleblowers.

http://act.credoaction.com/sign/holder_ap?referring_akid=7913.2988458.m1hS-w&source=mailto-n1

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The CEO Power Grab

Hey -

Right-wing politicians in the Senate are trying to give CEOs even more power.

They want to stop President Obama's nominations to the National Labor Relations Board, the independent agency that protects workers' rights, in the hopes that they can shut it down.

If the NLRB is shut down it will make it easier for corporations to deny workers their right to fight for safer workplaces, health care or a wage they can support their family on.

It's disgusting and we need to make sure it doesn't happen. Can you take a second to send your senators an email and ask them to confirm President Obama’s NLRB nominations?

go.aflcio.org/the-power-grab

MARC: Allow regular bicycles on trains, not just folding bikes

Hi,

MARC trains only allow folding bicycles, which are typically heavier and more expensive than regular bikes, and bikes are one of the best ways of making public transportation practical, by helping people make up for gaps and problems in that transportation system.  Especially in this tough economy, allowing regular bicycles would enable more people to adapt to available public transportation, rather than waiting for transportation to adapt to them.  In other words, this would allow Maryland to get the most bang for its transportation bucks.

That's why I signed a petition to The Maryland State House, The Maryland State Senate, Governor Martin O'Malley, The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama, which says:

"Allow regular bicycles on MARC trains!"

Will you sign this petition? Click here:

http://signon.org/sign/marc-allow-regular-bicycles?source=s.em.cp&r_by=985589

Thanks!