Get FISA Right

Over the weekend, Bob Fertik proposed the idea of a “Constitutional slate” of Ideas for Change in America, including his Appoint a Special Prosecutor for the Crimes of the Bush Administration as well as our Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties and Pierre Loiselle’s Repeal the Patriot Act.

Does Get FISA Right want to take the first steps towards this by endorsing Bob’s idea?

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The second round of voting in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition kicked off today. Please vote for Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties — and help promote it!

To vote, just click on the button displaying the current number of votes on the top left of the change.org page. (If your vote doesn’t register, you may need to log in or sign up first.)  You can also use the widget on the front page of our web site.

There are a lot of ways you can help promote the idea — see the list on our wiki. A few ways to get started:

1. Email the link to your friends and listservs.
2. Post it to your profile and share it on Facebook or MySpace
3. If you’re a blogger, write up a post on it and include the code for the widget (available here). Then sign up as an “endorser” (the link’s on the right-hand side of the change.org page)
4. Help with our blogger outreach — more details here

We’re having a conference call to discuss promotion on Tuesday, January 6, at 5 PM Pacific/8 PM Eastern. Please RSVP on Facebook or MyBO if you’re interested!

Stay tuned for more!

jon

PS: and if you’ve got other ideas for promotion, please mention them in the comments

PPS: please also consider voting for Pierre Loiselle’s Repeal the Patriot Act idea. If we decide to combine the ideas later, you can always change your vote …

Facebook and MyBO events for the Ideas for Change competition are up; please accept and forward!

We still don’t know the ground rules, so at this point the most important thing to do is start getting the word out, set up our communications channels — and get the planning discussions going.  So please, have a look at our thinking and give your feedback and suggestions … and start letting people know about it, via email, blogging, and social networks.