Stop American Censorship
Internet censorship is going to a vote in the Senate on January 24th (known as PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House). While Senators are in their home states for the January recess, we need to flood their public meetings and offices with our concerns about the bill. Learn More
Cali for Net Freedom: Senators are ignoring us, so let's schedule random drop-ins everywhere!
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- The New York Times's Lede blog
- Wired's Threat Level
- Wired's Danger Room
ABC News' investigative blog The Blotter
© The Atlantic Wiredarshun, I will go with you on Thursday. You can contact me at gdolley [at] arpnetworks.com.
In fact, one of the major take-aways from the briefing call with Public Knowledge earlier today was that you don't have to set up a formal meeting to come in and talk to someone in a Senator's local office - you can and should just show up!
Once you all decide on a time, post it up here, and we'll create a facebook event on the fftp main page for it.
Good Morning Jonathan,
Thank you for submitting a request to meet with Senator Barbara Boxer.
In order to process your request please submit the following
information:
-where are you requesting to meet, Washington D.C. or California-if you are requesting a meeting in CA please specify the city
-please provide a phone number where we can contact you
Once I receive this information can go ahead and process your request. Thank you.
I'm in LA/Long Beach. Anyone around that area want to come if I can get a meet? I'd like some back up, ha ha.
Student from UC San Diego here, willing to attend any meetings in southern California.
Will continue checking this.
escalatoraccident I'm in Southern California and I'll go with you. Just say when and where.
I encourage everyone to brush up on the very basics of the law - anger alone won't get anywhere, but the point is, this law is so unreasonable that the average American when confronted with the facts, has to agree it's simply terrible legislation that doesn't benefit the citizens. And it's not just about the meeting with the Senator - it's the staff, all the other citizens in the area, and especially our ability to voice concerns in a peaceful, dispassionate way, to any media that might show up for interviews, that will convince other people (who don't already agree) to listen to you/us.
Who is up for rolling unannounced office visits to Sen Boxer's Los Angeles office. I'm thinking perhaps a group of 4 to 5 people every hour on the hour for Jan 17-24 rolling unannounced office visits. Who's up? I could set up a public google calendar for scheduling.
/Sharon
Thank you for contacting our office to arrange a meeting with Senator Feinstein to discuss the PROTECT IP Act.
Unfortunately, Senator Feinstein has received more than 200 individual
requests to meet on this bill. She is travelling around California and
it is difficult for her to accommodate every request.
However, Senator Feinstein understands your concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act.
She is working with members of Congress and representatives from the
technology industry to resolve some of the issues you have raised and
hopes a package of changes will be incorporated into the legislation
that will address your views to the greatest degree possible.
Thanks very much,
Shaeda Ahmadi
Deputy Scheduler
Office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
202.224.3841Thank you for contacting our office to arrange a meeting with Senator Feinstein
to discuss the PROTECT IP Act. Unfortunately, Senator Feinstein has
received more than 200 individual requests to meet on this bill. She is
travelling around California and it is difficult for her to accommodate
every request.
However, Senator Feinstein understands your
concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act. She is working with members of
Congress and representatives from the technology industry to resolve
some of the issues you have raised and hopes a package of changes will
be incorporated into the legislation that will address your views to the
greatest degree possible.
Thanks very much,
Shaeda Ahmadi
Deputy Scheduler
Office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein
202.224.3841"
Stop SOPA/PIPA Los Angeles Action.
Since our California Senators are not responding to scheduled meeting requests, this calendar is to organize a rolling meeting action for unannounced visits at their Los Angeles offices on the hour every hour to express SOPA/PIPA concerns.
Number(s) in parentheses indicates how many people have said they will be attending during that time slot. The name and email address will be included as part of the time slot description.
I'm not sure how to make editing for a Google calendar public, so if you would like to be included, please email s (DOT) michelle (DOT) lake (AT) gmail (DOT) com with your name, email address, the Senator's office you will be visiting, and the time.
I'm sure that this could be more organized, but I'm assuming this is a start ... feel free to improve the process, etc. as needed.
Note that for in office visits you will need to be polite and dress appropriately.
The scheduling calendar can be found at:
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mu8v5ms4qv6kfpnjv88dvm1ito@group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles
/Sharon
"Thank you for contacting our office to arrange a meeting with Senator Feinstein to discuss the PROTECT IP Act.
Unfortunately, Senator Feinstein has received more than 200 individual
requests to meet on this bill. She is travelling around California and
it is difficult for her to accommodate every request.
However, Senator Feinstein understands your concerns regarding the PROTECT IP Act.
Thanks very much"She is working with members of Congress and representatives from the
technology industry to resolve some of the issues you have raised and
hopes a package of changes will be incorporated into the legislation
that will address your views to the greatest degree possible.
I'll see if I get a real date from the Boxer staff.
I was not expecting a personal response, but I got it. I suggest people just copy my letter, add your own spin to it...AND SEND THEM OUT EN MASSE!!!