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Stop the Spying wants you to send a video message to Congress

Stop the Spying

Stop the Spying is a campaign organized to get citizens to literally "show" Congress their opposition to the telecom immunity issue now being fought in Congress. Rather than the usual letter campaigns and phone calls, Stop the Spying is asking voters to speak out against the issue by sending in videos and photos of themselves portraying their opposition.

The addition of multimedia messaging to Congressional leaders is an interesting development in campaign tactics and one that is certainly richer and more powerful than blast emails and jamming Congressional phone lines.

Telecom immunity refers to proposed immunity legislation which could let telephone companies off the hook for any assistance they provided to the National Security Agency's surveillance program after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Such immunity would block lawsuits like EFF's case against AT&T for violating privacy laws by providing the government with customer information without court warrants.

If you would like to join the effort, all you have to do is write your message on a piece of paper and include your city and state, take a photo of you and your statement and send it in. If you would like to send a video clip, include your city and state, and tell your message in a 60 seconds or less video.

Stop the Spying is organized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and People for the American Way. To view other photo messages, you can visit the Stop the Spying Flickr site.