[ [link removed] ]Tell Democrats in Congress: Fight the Patriot Act

The petition to Democrats in Congress reads:
"Section 215 of the Patriot Act is widely invasive and has never proven to
be effective in preventing terrorist attacks. Protect our democracy and
sunset Section 215 when it expires in March."

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Dear Jack,

[ [link removed] ]Tell Democrats in
Congress: Fight the
Patriot Act

Speaker Pelosi's House of Representatives just quietly extended the
government's legal power to surveil our phone calls.^1

Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which allows the government to collect a
massive amount of our personal information without a warrant, was set to
expire on December 15. But House Democrats recently joined with
Republicans in the House and Senate to quietly approve a stop-gap budget
bill that included an extension of Section 215 until March 15, 2020. We
cannot let this stand.

Section 215 gives the NSA legal ability to listen to our phone calls. It
lets the government keep records of who we are talking to and what we are
talking about. No Democrat should have allowed this extension to pass
without a meaningful public debate. Speak out now to show Democrats that
we are watching and demand that they allow Section 215 to expire in March.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Democrats in Congress: Make a wrong decision right. Sunset Section
215 in March 2020. Click here to sign the petition.

Congress passed the wildly invasive Patriot Act during the anti-Muslim
hysteria that followed 9/11. It undermines our civil liberties and targets
communities of color and immigrants, but has never been proven effective
in preventing terrorist attacks. All it has ever done is sanction
state-sponsored criminalization of -- and violence against -- Muslims and
open the floodgates for the government to collect millions of Americans'
phone data in bulk without us knowing.^2

Under Trump's National Security Agency, extending surveillance powers
under Section 215 is even more dangerous. Through anti-Muslim draconian
border policies such as the Muslim ban, the Trump administration is
already over-policing and attacking the rights of our Muslim neighbors,
friends and family members. We must do everything we can to protect them.
That includes holding Democrats' feet to the fire when they supercharge
Trump's surveillance state.

Add your name now to make clear to every Democrat in Congress that we
expect them to fight tooth and nail to safeguard our democracy from
authoritarians like Trump, not help him attack our civil liberties and spy
on our communities.

Tell Democrat lawmakers: Sunset Section 215 in March 2020. Click the link
below to sign the petition:

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Thanks for fighting back,

Jelani Drew, Campaign Manager
[ [link removed] ]CREDO Action from Working Assets

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References:

 1. Zack Whittaker, "[ [link removed] ]Congress extends NSA calls records collection
powers to March," Tech Crunch, Nov. 21, 2019.
 2. Rainey Reitman, "[ [link removed] ]3 Years Later, the Snowden Leaks Have Changed How
the World Sees NSA Surveillance," Electric Frontier Foundation, June
5, 2016.

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