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
Kentucky for Internet Freedom
Top Priority for KY: Set up Meetings
Rand Paul has scheduled a Town Hall meeting in Murray, KY. He is an opponent of PIPA. Can you go, thank him, and ask him how you can help him defeat the bill?
- Wednesday, Jan 11th, @ 12:30 PM CFSB Center at Murray State University 1401 State Route 121 North Murray, KY 42071-3352
We still need meetings, especially w/ Mitch McConnell:
- Call (502) 582-6304 to meet with Senator McConnell, who has no public position on the bill yet.
- Call 502-582-5341 to meet with Senator Paul, a staunch opponent of PIPA and committed to filibustering the bill.
Be polite and professional, and request a meeting on behalf of Kentucky for Internet Freedom (the folks in this forum) to discuss the PROTECT IP Act and SOPA. Make it clear that you want to meet with the Senator during the January recess, and that you'll be bringing others from your group. Have your calendar open when you call, so you can pick a time that works for you. When finished, post a report-back.
For example: "Hi, my name is ________, I'm with Kentucky for Internet freedom, and I'm calling to request a meeting with Senator _______ during the January recess. The PROTECT IP vote is happening on January 24th, and I wanted the Senator to understand my concerns before the vote happens."
IMPORTANT: If you do get a meeting, post another message. That way others can join you in your meeting. If there's any other specific information we should include in this post, message us and we can add it.
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You'll not find many that will, or can meet with the Senators due to one reason or another.
Hawk
Do not stop at just one junction, when you (We) have many other avenues available to you (Us)
http://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm#form_2a1cd1e7-c5a2-44ae-8451-1a352299c051. I told him that I would not vote nor support any politician who threatens my livelihood (I work online) and urged him to stand agains SOPA and PIPA. I hope it helps.
I'm not sure if this is the proper place for posting the following information,but I thought it might be worth a shot. Case in point, Haley King (a fellow Kentuckian) has organized a petition with www.change.org concerning SOPA and PIPA. Specifically, her petition is encouraging Google and Facebook to participate in an internet blackout (the same blackout Wikipedia has agreed to participate in) so as to draw attention to the bills.
As of this posting, the petition has reached over 2,000 signatures and Google has notified Haley that the petition has, if nothing else, caught their interest. No word from Facebook, however - yet.
Again, assuming this is a proper place to link to Haley's petition, let's work on upping the signature count so that Google and Facebook might be persuaded to participate in the blackout!
Link to the petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/ceo-google-inc-convince-facebook-google-wikipedia-to-blackout-to-protest-sopa
why pass a bill that would kill the internet for billions of people hard working people to the home business that needs the internet to have a life and work for there family please hear me out and vote against POPA & PIPA its not right taking the internet from billions of people so that the movie & music Inc. is happy please say *NO* to POPA & PIPA please don't vote the bill in lets fight against it america is BORN FREE FREEDOM OF SPEECH & FREEDOM to vote why take our freedom we the people are having it hard as it is.