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Several key pieces of information on Off Now. -Off Now represents an unprecedented collaboration between left and right wing organizations. The 10th Amendment
by zmanian 13y ago
Several key pieces of information on Off Now.
-Off Now represents an unprecedented collaboration between left and right wing organizations. The 10th Amendment Center is associated with right wing causes like nullifying Obamacare or gun control regulations. The Bill of Rights Defense Committee is well known as left leaning civil rights organization. This partnership has been characterized by mutual respect and a shared love of liberty. It is amazing.
- The Off Now legislation has real legal consequences in the opinion of experienced constitutional lawyers like Shahid Buttar of BORDC. In California, the Off Now Bill SB828 would prevent the NSA from recruiting on UC campuses and impair opening an NSA facility in the future in CA. In Washington State, it would impair the functionality of the Yakima facility considerably.
What can you do?
- If you live in Washington State, call the office of Laurie Jenkin's and ask for hearing on HB2272
http://www.leg.wa.gov/House/Representatives/Pages/jinkins.aspx http://www.leg.wa.gov/House/Representatives/Pages/jinkins.as...
- Ask your employers to participate in the The Day We Fight Back on Feb 11th. https://thedaywefightback.org/ https://thedaywefightback.org/
- In SF, come to the AT&T building at 611 Folsom on the 11th to hear whistle blower Mark Klein speak and to remind the SF community that the NSA is capturing America's internet traffic right in their city.
- If you live in CA, sign Shame on Feinstein. https://shameonfeinstein.org https://shameonfeinstein.org
- Support the BORDC and the 10th Amendment center financially.
- zmanian 13y ago- Feb 11th 611 Folsom Street Protest (https://www.facebook.com/events/614121478661276/ https://www.facebook.com/events/614121478661276/) -Feb 11th Utah Protest (https://www.facebook.com/events/527159990715739 https://www.facebook.com/events/527159990715739)
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- kelnage 13y agoIt might be worth researching Yakima a little further - its been planned for closure since 2012 [1]. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakima_Training_Center#Ancillary_functions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakima_Training_Center#Ancillar...
- zmanian 13y agoVery interesting. Thanks.
- scott_karana 13y agoStill worth closing. If any states pull this off, they'll be pressed for facilities.
- malandrew 13y agoShouldn't OffNow go further and propose legislation that impacts the telcos and all other companies within its borders that co-operate with the NSA without putting up a fight? Take AT&T for example. Near as I can tell, it has been one of the worst offenders and greatest facilitators. For a state to take direct action against the interstate business model of AT&T and other telcos, provides a great economic incentive for AT&T to actively fight back against mass surveillance in the form of challenging NSLs and lobbying against increases in surveillance state powers. If we want to promote a political environment with greater states rights, you need to promote a legal framework where most of our goods and services are provided by organizations that cannot easily grow to be larger than a state because the cost of being interstate presents so many transactional costs to make it less competitive.
- zmanian 13y agoThis is a future area where the anti-authoritarian left and right might be able to work together towards a less corporate system.