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Congress
will soon decide whether to grant immunity to telecom companies that
may have violated the law in assisting with the administration's
illegal wiretapping program by handing over their customers' private
records without a warrant.
Granting
retroactive immunity would pull the plug on current and pending
litigation against these companies, allowing the Bush administration to
keep buried important information about the extent of its illegal
spying programs.
Don't let it happen. Here are two ways you can make an impact:
- Please
use this form to send an e-mail to your senators -- we will also use
this action like a petition in our lobbying efforts, bringing to
senators a record of the numerous action-takers in their states.
http://www.pfaw.org/go/NoTelecomImmunity
- If
you have a video camera or a webcam, send us a short video (preferably
under a minute), by the end of the week, telling members of Congress in
your own words why they should say NO to telecom immunity.
House
Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers may hold a telecom immunity
hearing as early as next week and our hope is to get Rep. Conyers
activist video testimonials that may be useful in the hearing.
In addition to making the videos available to Rep. Conyers, we'll compile and deliver them to the Hill prior to the Senate vote.
Video Guidelines
Please
submit videos that are less than 60 seconds long (or not much longer)
and don't exceed 100MB. Make sure you identify yourself and where you
are from in your video (and also in the e-mail message you send us).
How to Submit
Once you've shot your video and have saved it as a file on your computer, send it to us in one of the following ways:
- E-mail us the file at
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. (Please include at minimum your name, city and state in the e-mail message.)
- Use
the file-sending site YouSendIt to upload your video to the web -- no
registration required. YouSendIt will then send your video to us. To
use YouSendIt:
i. Go to
www.YouSendIt.com.
ii. In the "To" field, enter
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iii. In the "From" field, enter your e-mail address.
iv. In the "Select a file" section, hit "Browse," and find your video file on your computer.
v. Your video will then upload, and you'll be presented with a screen saying your upload was successful.
vi. Make
sure you provide your information (name, city, state) in the "message"
field and then simply hit "Send." (There is no need to click any of the
other options that are offered.)
Please
note that by submitting a video you are releasing ownership of it (see
terms below), but we won't use it in a way to which you object. We'd
like to post some of the videos on YouTube and Facebook, as well as pfaw.org, to get the word out, so
please let us know in your e-mail or in the message area provided by
YouSendIt if you'd prefer we not share your video with anyone other
than members of Congress.
Thank you for your activism!
-- Your Allies at People For the American Way
P.S.
If you need some more background information on telecom immunity before
recording your video submission, you can get some facts here:
http://media.pfaw.org/PDF/capitolhill/2007-12-17-FISA-reform.pdf
Terms of Video Submission
By submitting a video, you affirm that you are at least 18 years of
age and grant People For the American Way (PFAW) worldwide,
irrevocable, nonexclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, publicly
display, publicly perform, and create derivative works based on the
video in any medium. You also waive your right to inspect or approve
any use of the video or any derivative works as well as release and
discharge PFAW from any claims arising out of use of the video or any
derivative works by PFAW.
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