[bestbits] Re: [webwewant] Letter on NSA delivered to Congress

[Nnenna Nwakanma]

Hi folks

I have beeen looking out for the info.  I have starred it so I can tweet it
and call attention to it during the session I chair tomorrow at the Africa
Internet Summit

Cheers

N


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Kevin Bankston <kbankston at cdt.org> wrote:

> Thanks Deborah!  CDT's short blog post is here:
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> https://www.cdt.org/blogs/emma-llanso/1806international-groups-call-congress-rein-nsa
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> On Jun 18, 2013, at 3:24 PM, Deborah Brown <deborah at accessnow.org> wrote:
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> Dear all,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
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> 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?
>
> All the best,
> Deborah
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