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Monday, October 14, 2013

Oh boy, Another big Washington protest! Coming soon!

Maybe there is precedence but I don't remember this many protests in Washington for so many different reasons. It seems protesting Obama's policies is the in thing to do. Let's hope that the millennials pay attention. They may need to do this someday. StopWatchingUs .org is planning a protest on October 26.
StopWatching.us is the most cerebral organization to hit the DC protest circuit. It includes more than 100 public advocacy organizations including Freedom Works, The Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla (the creator of Firefox), and the ACLU. Individual members include Daniel Ellsberg a defense analyst who was hounded by the Nixon administration and Tim Berners-Lee who created the World Wide Web.
About the rally:
Right now the NSA is spying on everyone's personal communications, and they’re operating without any meaningful oversight. Since the Snowden leaks started, more than 571,000 people from all walks of life have signed the StopWatching.us petition telling the U.S. Congress that we want them to rein in the NSA.
On October 26th, the 12th anniversary of the signing of the US Patriot Act, we're taking the next step and holding the largest rally yet against NSA surveillance. We’ll be handing the half-million petitions to Congress to remind them that they work for us -- and we won’t tolerate mass surveillance any longer.
 

2 comments:

  1. OUR side needs to get it together with the protests though. Planning a protest on a Sunday morning one week in advance isn't going to get as many protesters as they could. There've been a lot of these "let's do this in a week" protests.

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  2. Right and it's sort of an East coast thing. If you live on the Boston to Baltimore Amtrack corridor it's not a hassle. You don't have to worry about a parking space or vandalism or not being able to find your car.

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