Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006
From: "Bill of Rights Defense Committee" <bordc-AT-democracyinaction.org>
Subject: Jan. 25 PATRIOT Act Call-In Day

Today is the day! Join the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and tens of thousands of allies throughout the U.S. in an overwhelming grassroots response to the PATRIOT Act and other governmental excesses. Your phone calls to your senators and representative in support of meaningful reforms can make the difference in restoring our rights to privacy, free speech, and due process.

Please phone both your Senators and your Representative and urge them to work for a PATRIOT Act reauthorization bill that truly preserves privacy and free speech, and that restores checks and balances, including judicial review and much greater congressional oversight.

* Click here [ bordc.org/callin.php ] for talking points and phone numbers, and to let us know how your calls went, OR
* Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 (24 hours), and ask the operator to connect you.

Thank you for all you do!

Bill of Rights Defense Committee

Please forward the following message to your friends:

January 25, National PATRIOT Act Call-In Day!

Please join the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and tens of thousands of allies throughout the U.S. in an overwhelming grassroots response to the PATRIOT Act and other governmental excesses. Your phone calls to your senators and representative can help end Big Brother run amok.

The USA PATRIOT Act gave the FBI increased authority to wiretap your phone and monitor your e-mail. It also enabled the government to demand your medical, financial and student records from third-parties such as banks, vendors, doctors’ offices, and libraries, without linking you to a terrorism investigation. Furthermore, it prevents anyone who is required to turn over your records from ever telling you or anyone else, even if the records turned up no wrongdoing.

Very soon Congress will have a chance to repair some of the PATRIOT Act’s worst excesses. In December 2005, a bipartisan group of senators filibustered to stop the passage of a bill to reauthorize the 16 PATRIOT Act provisions that would have expired, because the bill did not protect our civil liberties. Congress’s temporary extension of those provisions will run out on February 3, 2006.

Your phone calls to your senators and representative in support of meaningful reforms can make the difference in restoring our rights to privacy, free speech, and due process.

Please phone both your Senators and your Representative and urge them to work for a PATRIOT Act reauthorization bill that truly preserves privacy and free speech, and that restores checks and balances, including judicial review and much greater congressional oversight.

* Click here [ bordc.org/callin.php ] for talking points and phone numbers, and to let us know how your calls went, OR
* Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 (24 hours), and ask the operator to connect you.

Other organizations supporting the call-in day (partial list) include the Alliance for Justice, American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, American Civil Liberties Union, American Library Association, Amnesty International USA, Campaign for Reader Privacy, Center for Democracy and Technology, Code Pink, Council on American-Islamic Relations, First Amendment Foundation, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Global Exchange, League of United Latin American Citizens, League of Women Voters, Liberty Coalition, MoveOn.org Political Action, National Lawyers Guild, People For the American Way, Rights Working Group, San Francisco Labor Council, True Majority, Unitarian Universalist Association, and United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.