Thanks for the info, DeeDee. <br><br>I just noticed Craigslist has an action page w/ links on various methods to protest <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23SOPA" title="#SOPA" class=" twitter-hashtag pretty-link" rel="nofollow"><s class="hash">#</s><b>SOPA</b></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23PIPA" title="#PIPA" class=" twitter-hashtag pretty-link" rel="nofollow"><s class="hash">#</s><b>PIPA</b></a> -<br>
<br><a href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA">http://www.craigslist.org/about/SOPA</a><br><br>(From Craigslist below)<br><h2><a href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/">about</a> > SOPA</h2>
<p>Corporate supporters of HR3261 (SOPA) and S968 (PIPA) <a href="https://www.eff.org/issues/coica-internet-censorship-and-copyright-bill">demand the ability to take down any web site</a> that affects their profits -- without due process or judicial oversight -- in the name of combating "<a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/01/13/tim-oreilly-why-im-fighting-sopa/">online piracy</a>." Hoping you won't notice or care, <a href="http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/">quite a few of our Public Servants want to give them that right.</a></p>
<p>Believe it or not, <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111005/08134716207/monster-cable-blames-rogue-sites-rather-than-its-own-business-practices-stealing-good-will.shtml">Monster Cable</a> (remember "<a href="http://www.commercialalert.org/news/news-releases/2004/11/san-francisco-approves-referendum-against-sale-of-naming-rights-for-candlestick-park">Monster Park</a>"?) <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111005/10082416208/monster-cable-claims-ebay-craigslist-costco-sears-are-rogue-sites.shtml">considers craigslist a "rogue site" for blacklisting and takedown under PIPA</a> - apparently 2nd hand sales of stereo cables by CL users is reducing Monster's sales of new cables. (<a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/oh4qx/craigslist_monster_cable_considers_craigslist_a/">reddit</a>).</p>
<p>SOPA/PIPA <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/lamar-smith-sopa-copyright-whoops">authors</a> and <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xjisu18X6s7lPtAsIQg5Ol3KJjymPT2az1kasQVwGiw/edit?pli=1">supporters</a> insist they're only after foreign piracy sites, but <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa">Internet Engineers understand this is an attempt to impose "Big Brother" control over our Internet</a>, complete with <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/109813896768294978296/posts/Dt6FoRv6hXJ">DNS hijacking and censoring search results</a>. </p>
<p><<font color="red">RANT</font>>What could be more anti-American
than jack-booted thugs throttling our free speech, poisoning that
greatest of American inventions, the Internet, while devastating perhaps
our most successful and competitive industry? There's got to be a
better way to sell more stereo cables.</<font color="red">RANT</font>></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center;white-space:nowrap;color:#dd0000;padding:0px;margin:0px">★</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center;white-space:nowrap;padding:0px;margin:0px">☆</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center;white-space:nowrap;color:#0000dd;padding:0px;margin:0px">★ </span>Tell Congress you OPPOSE H.R. 3261 "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and S. 968 "Protect IP Act" (PIPA) </strong><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center;white-space:nowrap;color:#dd0000;padding:0px;margin:0px">★</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center;white-space:nowrap;padding:0px;margin:0px">☆</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center;white-space:nowrap"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:-webkit-center;white-space:nowrap;color:#0000dd;padding:0px;margin:0px">★ </span></p>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.reverserobocall.com/blog/reverserobocall-com-wants-to-stop-sopa-and-give-to-the-electronic-frontier-foundation-eff">Reverse Robocall ALL pro-SOPA MOC + Key Lobbyists</a> (Genius! More info on <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/reverse-robocall-campaign-lets-citizens-phone-blast-sopa-supporters.ars">Ars Technica</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://sopa.boldprogressives.org/call/call_sopa_allcongress_craigslist/?source=craigslist">Phone your Member of Congress via nifty Progressive Change app</a></li><li>Contact Senators who are <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/oe3mf/these_61_senators_are_refusing_to_meet_with_their/">refusing to meet with constituents</a> about SOPA/PIPA.</li>
<li>EFF <a href="https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8173">Congressional Emailer - Oppose Internet Blacklisting (SOPA & PIPA)</a></li><li>ECA <a href="http://action.theeca.com/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5006">Congressional Emailer</a> - Don't Censor Our Internet!</li>
<li>OpenCongress <a href="http://www.opencongress.org/contact_congress_letters/new?bill=112-h3261&position=oppose">Congressional Emailer - Oppose SOPA</a></li><li>Generic <a href="https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml">Congressional Emailer</a> (You'll need your <a href="https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction%21input.action">Zip+4</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://sopa.boldprogressives.org/survey/survey_sopa_reddit/?source=craigslist">Petition Congress - Protect Innovation, Dump SOPA</a> (Progressive Change )</li><li>Outside the US? <a href="http://americancensorship.org/modal/state-dept-petition/index.html">Sign Petition Opposing US Censorship of Global Sites</a> (EFF)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Supporters of SOPA: </strong>RIAA, MPAA, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hacking_scandal">News Corp</a>,
TimeWarner, Walmart, Nike, Tiffany, Chanel, Rolex, Sony, Juicy Couture,
Ralph Lauren, VISA, Mastercard, Comcast, ABC, Dow Chemical, Monster
Cable, Teamsters, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/yes-a-google-employee-responded-to-rupert-murdochs-tweets-2012-1">Rupert Murdoch</a>, <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/lamar-smith-sopa-copyright-whoops">Lamar Smith (R-TX)</a>, John Conyers (D-MI)</p>
<p><strong>Opponents of SOPA</strong>: Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia,
craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, eBay, AOL, Mozilla, Reddit,
Tumblr, Etsy, Zynga, EFF, ACLU, Human Rights Watch, Darrell Issa (R-CA),
Ron Wyden (D-OR), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Ron Paul (R-TX)</p>
<p><a href="http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/"><strong>Where does your Member of Congress stand on SOPA</strong>?</a> (Project SOPA Opera)</p>
<p><strong>SOPA and PIPA Are Too Dangerous To Revise, They Must Be Killed Entirely </strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.reverserobocall.com/blog/reverserobocall-com-wants-to-stop-sopa-and-give-to-the-electronic-frontier-foundation-eff">Congress needs to hear from you</a>, or <a href="http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/">these dangerous bills will pass</a> - they have tremendous lobbying dollars behind them, from corporations experts say are attempting to <a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/01/13/tim-oreilly-why-im-fighting-sopa/">prop up outdated, anti-consumer business models</a>
at the expense of the very fabric of the Internet -- recklessly
unleashing a tsunami of take-down notices and litigation, and a
Pandora's jar of "chilling effects" and other unintended (or perhaps
intended?) consequences.</p>
<p>There is still time to be heard. <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/under-voter-pressure-members-of-congress-backpedal-on-sopa.ars">Congress is starting to backpedal</a> on this job-killing, anti-American nonsense, and the <a href="https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petition-tool/response/combating-online-piracy-while-protecting-open-and-innovative-internet">Obama administration has weighed in against</a> these bills as drafted, but <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/sopa-hollywood-finally-gets-chance-break-internet">SOPA/PIPA cannot be fixed or revised -- they must be killed altogether</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/darrellissa">Sen Darrell Issa</a> (R-CA) and <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/ronwyden">Rep Ron Wyden</a> (D-OR) are <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/wyden-issa-and-cea-prepare-for-critical-battles-against-sopa-and-pipa.ars">championing an alternative</a> to SOPA/PIPA called <a href="http://keepthewebopen.com/">Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade Act (OPEN)</a>
that addresses foreign sites dedicated to piracy, without disrupting
basic Internet protocols, or threatening mainstream US sites like
craigslist.</p>
<p>Tim O'Reilly, a publisher who is himself subject to piracy, <a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/01/13/tim-oreilly-why-im-fighting-sopa/">asks whether piracy is even a problem, and whether there is even a legitimate need for any of these bills</a>. </p>
<p><strong>Learn more about SOPA, Protect IP (PIPA), and Internet Blacklisting</strong>:</p>
<ul><li><a href="http://cdt.org/report/growing-chorus-opposition-stop-online-piracy-act">Growing Chorus of Opposition to SOPA</a></li><li><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/internet-inventors-warn-against-sopa-and-pipa">Open Letter against SOPA from 83 Prominent Internet Engineers</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111122/04254316872/definitive-post-why-sopa-protect-ip-are-bad-bad-ideas.shtml">Why SOPA and Protect IP (PIPA) are Bad, Bad Ideas</a> (Techdirt)</li><li><a href="http://gigaom.com/2012/01/13/tim-oreilly-why-im-fighting-sopa/">Piracy not a problem, SOPA/PIPA unnecessary</a> (Tim O'Reilly on GigaOM)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=SOPA">SOPA News</a> (Google News)</li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act">SOPA Wikipedia entry</a></li><li><a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-57329001-281/how-sopa-would-affect-you-faq/?tag=mncol;txt">SOPA FAQ</a> (CNET)</li>
</ul>
<p> </p><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:48 AM, DeeDee Halleck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deedeehalleck@gmail.com">deedeehalleck@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://sopastrike.com/" target="_blank">http://sopastrike.com/</a><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>From a post to facebook:</div><div><span style="font-family:BebasNeueRegular,sans-serif;line-height:40px"><b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;line-height:1;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(143,41,41)">On Jan 18th</b>, sites will go dark to protest <a href="http://sopastrike.com/#strike-data" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:inherit;font-style:normal;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">the internet censorship bills</a>. Urge the biggest sites to join the strike: <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;line-height:1;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(143,41,41)">Sign the Petition</b>. <br>
Participating? <b style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;font-weight:normal;font-style:inherit;line-height:1;font-family:inherit;color:rgb(143,41,41)">Add your site</b> to the list, and spread the word.</span></div>
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