One of the topics that came up in our phone call on Saturday was Senator Russ Feingold’s early March visit to Wisconsin. Green Bay resident Jean told us that at his Listening Meeting there on March 4, she and several others were planning on bringing up domestic spying. And lo and behold, Green Bay is on the ever-growing list of cities our partner SaysMe.tv supports!
So it’s a great opportunity to introduce ourselves to Senator Feingold and his staff, and to get some media attention as well: at least in Green Bay, probably in Madison and statewide, and hopefully even more broadly. And in the broader context, this is a prototype for something that we’re going to want to replicate in all 50 states.
There are several different things we’ll need to be working on in parallel for this:
Update, Wednesday 9:30 PM: notes (action items and download information) are in a comment.
Please continue the discussion!
Hey, we’ve got a new President! I hope everybody’s had a chance to check out the fireworks theme on the wiki 🙂 Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Okay, now back to work.
There is as always a lot to cover in tonight’s conference call: promoting our ad, following up on Ideas for Change, and organization going forward. The agenda and dialin information are below the fold. For those who can’t make it to tonight’s conference call, we’ll be recording it and will get notes up afterwards.* For those who can, we’ll also be discussing in the chat room at http://www.chatterous.com/gfrchat/.
Whether or not you’re going to be at the meeting, please leave your input on any of the topics as a comment here on this thread. Discussion before the meeting can help us make much better use of the hour when we’re all on the phone. Thanks much, and looking forward to it!
jon
* hopefully. we ran into problems with this last time, so no guarantees. but we’ll do our best. apologies to those whose cell-phone plans have limited minutes during weekdays; we will work on scheduling some future calls on weekends as well.
How cool is that? All the more so because our top-five finish in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America (details TBD, latest update here), which means we’ll get to work with change.org and MySpace Impact to promote it. w00t w00t! Thanks to SaysMe.tv for all their help, to Jason Rosenbaum of The Seminal for a key blog post, and to Get FISA Right members for collaboratively writing the script — and contributing to launch the ad in DC.
Get FISA Right members (and anybody else who wants to help): please share the video with your friends. Email the link, blog about it and mention it in comments, post and share on Facebook, change your status (mine currently says “Jon is going to be on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News and Comedy channel tomorrow! http://tinyurl.com/8jpwso.etc”), tweet, etc, etc.. Thanks!
If you’d like to congratulate President Obama, please leave a message in a comment either at the bottom of this page — or on Facebook or on YouTube, if you prefer. If you want, you can also share your views with him and the new administration about FISA, the PATRIOT Act, and civil liberties. Please keep it down to a few sentences at the most (and link out to anything longer), and stay positive and on-topic. And if you’d like to congratulate other Get FISA Right members, feel free to do so as well!
Draft media release below the fold.
jon
PS: If you’d like to help air the ad on cable TV stations in DC and across the country, you can donate on the SaysMe.tv site, or sign up to help with our February money bomb on Facebook (details and other sites coming soon). We’ll be working with change.org and MySpace Impact to promote this, as well as our next video/ad, Innocent Words, Misinterpreted. Stay tuned!
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized
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