Advocate for FREEDOM!
Now is the time for librarians and others on the front lines fighting for privacy and civil liberties to heed ALA President Courtney Young's call to "Advocate. Today.” - and we do mean today.
Here's the situation:
Thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senators will cast a key vote on Tuesday afternoon that is, in effect, "do or die" for meaningful USA PATRIOT Act reform in the few remaining weeks of the “lame duck” Congress. If Senators Reid and Patrick Leahy can't muster 60 votes on Tuesday to bring Senator Leahy’s USA FREEDOM Act (S. 2685) to the floor, then the overwhelming odds are that another bill nearly as good won’t have a prayer of passage for many years. Sadly, it’s not at all certain that 60 Senators are leaning in that direction. That’s where you come in!
Now is the time for librarians (and everyone else concerned with their privacy and all of our civil liberties) to come to the aid of Sens. Leahy and Reid, and their country... “Click Here to Act Now” ...to quickly and automatically identify your Senators and Representative in the House, and to send them a letter we've drafted for you with just one click asking them to take up and pass Sen. Leahy’s USA FREEDOM Act without any harmful amendments.
Acting now is critical . . . and it's easy and fast. Please contact your members of Congress now.
Links!
- Libraries, Books, & Authors
- Neil Gaiman: Libraries are cultural 'seed corn'
- Today's Fairy Tales Started Out (Even More) Dark And Harrowing
- Middle Grade Reading Flowchart (Make sure to check out the full size chart!)
- Net & Tech
- FCC to AT&T: About those net neutrality threats …
- Hacker group Anonymous publishes names of Ferguson KKK members
- A Man Can Hear Wi-Fi, And This Is What It Sounds Like
- Science
- Sierra Leone doctor dies of Ebola at Nebraska hospital
- This Republican Admits Rising Seas Are Swallowing His District. But Can He Say That in Washington? "Graves is pragmatic in the sense of accepting the numbers coming out of the scientific community....But when it comes to acting on the scientific consensus, it has been a different story. At the same candidate forum, he thanked the Koch brothers, who have bankrolled a network of climate-denying groups, for contributing to his campaign through their PAC. And he rejected the premise of the question when I asked him if he felt Congress should be doing more on climate change..."
- Amazing New Find Brings Us Closer To Cloning A Woolly Mammoth I bet Woolly Mammoth burgers are amazing.
- Other
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