Come with us to Sacramento to make sure California turns the NSA off now!
SB 828 is the Fourth Amendment Protection Act. It comes from model legislation drafted by the OffNow coalition against unconstitutional data collection and spying. The bill will prevent an NSA facility from opening in CA, stop the NSA from directing curriculum in our state universities, prevent warrantless evidence from being introduced in court and criminalize corporate support for warrantless spying. It is a powerful opportunity to go on the offensive for a change and to tell the federal government that the people of California are not cool with the surveillance state!
If you’ve never been lobbying before, there’s nothing to it! We’ll meet in the Bay Area (Oakland and/or SF) carpool/vanpool it up to Sacramento, have a brief rally on the Capitol steps and do a community activist led training in how to effectively lobby complete with printed talking points to help you know what to say. We’ll hand out manifests with the different offices to visit, break into teams and get to work. The more the merrier! Anyone and everyone is welcome!
Because of the transpartisan nature of the OffNow coalition, we’ll try to be splitting into teams of two, one person from the “right” libertarian/liberty-minded “side” and one from the “left” progressive/liberal “side.” Together we can show CA legislators the NSA spying is a problem no matter where you stand politically.
Snacks will be provided! This will be a fun day of solidarity, community building and hitting the hard marble of the state Capitol!
For more information, email matthew@bordc.org
If you are *ACTUALLY* going to come and you would like a ride, please email me at matthew@bordc.org. If there’s more people than can comfortably fit in my car, I can rent us a van to take. Specifically one with an iPod jack because you KNOW we’ll be bringing the jams.