<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Thanks Deborah! CDT's short blog post is here:<div><br><div><a href="https://www.cdt.org/blogs/emma-llanso/1806international-groups-call-congress-rein-nsa">https://www.cdt.org/blogs/emma-llanso/1806international-groups-call-congress-rein-nsa</a><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jun 18, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Deborah Brown <deborah@accessnow.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Dear all, <br><div><div><br></div><div>The letter from the international groups and individuals went out to Congress today (Tuesday), to 1855 recipients to be exact! A big thanks to the ACLU for sending it out, to Kevin for lending his email address as the sender, and to all who contributed to this effort.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Those who are listed as contacts on the email-- Anja, Anriette, Gene, Joana, Jeremy, Katherine, and Kevin-- should keep an eye out for follow up from staffers.</div><div><br></div><div>We haven't discussed a press strategy, but can I suggest that those of us who are blogging about this (Access have a post up soon) share their posts with the list and that we come up with some hashtags to use to raise awareness? I think the Web Foundation was putting a list of commonly used ones together, and it might make sense to use one specifically for this letter. Thoughts?</div>
<div><br></div><div style="">All the best, <br>Deborah </div></div>-- <br><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="garamond, serif">Deborah Brown</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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<font face="garamond, serif">E. <a href="mailto:deborah@accessnow.org" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">deborah@accessnow.org</a></font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<font face="garamond, serif">@deblebrown</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font face="garamond, serif">PGP 0x5EB4727D</font></div>
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