[bestbits] Re: Delivery of International civil society letter to Congress to follow up from HRC statement
Deborah Brown
deborah at accessnow.org
Thu Jun 13 20:12:47 EDT 2013
Great work all! Is the idea to email the letter to all members of Congress? I've been doing some outreach to the DC -based groups that Anriette mentioned earlier, but I want to make sure we're all on the same page about the delivery strategy.
Best,
Deborah
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On Jun 13, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Joana Varon <joana at varonferraz.com> wrote:
> Excellent work, fellows!
>
> And great improvements, Jeremy! Thanks for keep the platform always in eternal development.
>
> Do we have an strategy for delivering it to the right receivers?
>
> proud!
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> joana
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> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Kevin Bankston <kbankston at cdt.org> wrote:
> A few typos:
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> Paragraph 4 includes the sentence "That was clearly not the case with the latest practices of the US Government (this is inconsistent with references to “allegations” above)" I assume we want to cut the parenthetical. To address the comment in the parenthetical, perhaps change "clearly" to "apparently"?
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> Paragraph 5: "detailed" is misspelled "detailsed"
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> Paragraph 6 begins and ends with quotation marks that need to be deleted. The phrase "which constitute an almost certainly human rights violations" should be "which constitutes an almost certain human rights violation".
>
> Thanks!
> Kevin
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> On Jun 13, 2013, at 7:41 PM, Kevin Bankston <kbankston at cdt.org> wrote:
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>> Thanks Jeremy! When does the window for signing close?
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>> On Jun 13, 2013, at 7:38 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
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>>> The letter to Congress is now up for endorsement!
>>>
>>> http://bestbits.net/prism-congress/
>>>
>>> If you find any obvious errors please point them out, but otherwise the text is now closed.
>>>
>>> I have added a "Country" field to the endorsement form (this was omitted last time just by accident), and I have experimentally disabled the need to verify your signature by email. We'll see if this leads to spam. For now, I do not have any way of separating the organisational and non-organisational endorsements, though that is coming.
>>>
>>> Please spread widely and congratulations everyone for a very solid and convincing letter.
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> Joana Varon Ferraz
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