July 1: Declare Your Independence from Government Spying

This is how a true patriot acts (from the Madison Area Peace Coalition):


Rally and March to "Declare Your Independence From Government Spying!"

Saturday, July 1 2006 from 11 am to 12:30 pm

Meet at the AT&T building at 316 W. Washington Ave.

Join us to express your outrage at, and to protest, government spying on the American people, and specifically the collusion of AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth telecom companies with the NSA in providing our private records of telephone calls to them without a warrant. We now have evidence this has been going on for years, just one more example of the abrogation of our constitutional rights by the current administration, and their ongoing lawlessness. The administration claims it is just using this to track "terrorists." But we already know they are illegally spying on peace and environmental activist groups engaged only in constitutionally protected activity, and using illegally obtained information to track confidential news sources so as to intimidate investigative journalists from writing stories critical of the Bush administration.

Madison Women for Peace will have a pink presence at the July 1 rally. Make a sign opposing illegal and unconstitutional spying by the government and their telecom allies and join us!


Note: Our new meeting place has been finalized, thanks to the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice! We'll be meeting at the WNPJ conference room, on the 4th floor of 122 State Street, the first and third Mondays of each month at 6:30 pm (except for July 3). Join us!