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Category: Constitutional Rights Content: Resources on Civil Liberties Thanks to Alternet for a number of these addresses Center for Public Integrity http://www.publicintegrity.org/dtaweb/report.asp?ReportID=502&L1=10&L2=10&L3=0&L4=0&L5=0 September 27, 2004 Original release to the public of the sweeping expansion of the Anti-Terorism Act. The Center published a secret draft of the proposed Patriot II Legislation. Bill of Rights Defense Committee http://www.bordc.org/ Tell Them Where You Stand on the Patriot Act The Bill of Rights Defense Committee has put together a voter education packet to help citizens engage candidates for local, state, and national office about the USA PATRIOT Act and other government policy that threaten the Bill of Rights. The packet includes links to laws that currently restrict civil liberties; instructions and a timeline for preparing candidate questionnaires and publicizing the results: sample questions to pose to candidates: and links to online voter information resources. Note 356 Civil Liberties Safe Zones! Four states and 352 cities and counties have passed resolutions to protect their 55,035,941 residents' civil liberties. Hundreds more resolutions critical of the USA PATRIOT Act are in progress. http://www.nnirr.org/ The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights NNIRR provides educational, activist, and legal resources on immigration, migration, and refugee rights in the United States. ACLU www.aclu.org; http://www.aclu.org/safeandfree/ http://www.aclu.org/Privacy/Privacylist.cfm?c=39 New ACLU Report Say Surveillance Society Becoming Reality The United States has now reached the point where a total "surveillance society" has become a realistic possibility, the American Civil Liberties Union warned in a report released this week. http://www.repealnow.com/ The National Coalition to Repeal the Patriot Act Find information, flyers, petitions, and like-minded people at the site of the National Coalition to Repeal the Patriot Act. Free Expression Policy Project Concerned about copyright and intellectual property law? The Free Expression Policy Project covers the basics of intellectual property questions and some of the disturbing concerns about copyright law -- without using legal jargon. http://www.fepproject.org/policyreports/copyright2dexsum.html A collection of writings by Cato Institute scholars on civil liberties with respect to the war on terrorism. http://www.cato.org/current/civil-liberties/ Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) http://www.epic.org/alert/EPIC_Alert_11.18.html http://www.epic.org Major source of information about electronic privacy.