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How the NSA’s Claim on Thwarted Terrorist Plots Has Spread

2015 Fordham Law Review Symposium

Last week I attended this symposium on corruption at Fordham- it was fantastic!

I would definitely recommend checking out Lawrence Lessig’s TED talk We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim or my other links before viewing:

What is Corruption, How Should We Define It, and Why Is It Bad? Panel Rick Hansen, Lawrence Lessig, and Zepher Teachout (starts at 25:00)

Preet Bharara gave the keynote

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8 years ago

Get up, Stand up

Your Guide to the sprawling New anti-Trump Resistance Movement

These are some of the resources from this wonderful article along with other helpful resources I have found online.

Indivisible

A practical guide for resisting the Trump agenda... Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes, make 5 calls.Calling is the most effective way to influence your representative.

Resistance Manual

Open-source platform to harness the collective power of the people to resist the impact of a Trump presidency and to continue to make progress in our communities. Already, thousands of pieces of content have been contributed to the site from people all over the country, helping to keep communities informed and ready for the work ahead.

Also see

Pussyhat Project

Movement Match

#MarchforScience

#ResistTrumpTuesdays

Town Hall Project- Google Spreadsheet with upcoming events/town hall meetings of appearances made by representatives

What to do when you’re so overwhelmed by the Trump presidency you can barely move

It Seems to Me: What Young Women May Not Know

What the Fuck Just Happened Today

Week 12: Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember. (see links to previous weeks at bottom of the post)

My previous post: Science not Silence

Talk about timing...

It's amazing that it's been a year since Glen met with Snowden and the NSA landed in the headlines for violating our 4th amendment rights to privacy, a cornerstone of democracy.

Last week the USA Freedom Act passed in the house- doublespeak from our government that allows this abuse to continue. This week Snowden gave his first American Network TV interview.

Why does this issue of privacy and democracy matter so much? After all, "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide"?

----- excerpt from The Eternal Value of Privacy by Bruce Schneier-----

"Two proverbs say it best: Quis custodiet custodes ipsos? ("Who watches the watchers?") and "Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Cardinal Richelieu understood the value of surveillance when he famously said, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." Watch someone long enough, and you'll find something to arrest -- or just blackmail -- with. Privacy is important because without it, surveillance information will be abused: to peep, to sell to marketers and to spy on political enemies -- whoever they happen to be at the time.

Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.

and

"Too many wrongly characterize the debate as "security versus privacy." The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, whether it arises under threat of foreign physical attack or under constant domestic authoritative scrutiny, is still tyranny. Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide."

For the link to a short collection of other related articles, visit http://americanvirtueproject.wikispaces.com/readinglist