Building movementrestorelibertiesintegrated

Building a Movement to Restore Civil Liberties
Activism and Social Networking: Advocating for Online Privacy

Coordinating Online & On the Ground
BORDC model ordinances
Get FISA Right and social media

Local Organizing
2001-07: Resolutions Opposing the PATRIOT Act
Geographic and ideological diversity
406 towns
San Francisco, CA
New York, NY
Dallas, TX
Jackson, MS
8 states
Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Vermont

Anti-PATRIOT Act Resolutions
406 cities & towns
8 states
Geographic and ideological diversity

Continuing Threats to the Rule of Law
4th Amendment offenses
Government spying
Racial and religious profiling
Detention without trial
Torture with impunity
Executive secrecy

Local Ordinance Campaigns
Proposed limits on local law enforcement
Stop racial profiling (ERPA)
Data collection
Right of action
Stop local immigration enforcement (287(g) + Arizona)
Stop government spying (SAR + Fusion centers + JTTFs)
Vehicle for broad coalitions
Shared interests of communities of color
Libertarian interests in privacy

Ordinance Campaigns: Current Coalitions
Ann Arbor, MI
Albany, NY
Ithaca, NY
Cambridge, MA
Hartford, CT
Chicago, IL
Cleveland, OH
New York, NY
Berkeley, CA
San Francisco, CA
Asheville, NC
Los Angeles, CA
Tucson, AZ
= Profiling/Surveillance = Torture Accountability

Local Ordinance Campaigns
BORDC’s proposed reforms are aggressive
Offense vs. Defense
Incremental change vs. shifting the landscape
BORDC asks:
Grassroots coalition partners to add visionary targets to their existing advocacy
Policy groups to consider currently untenable targets and support grassroots efforts to create political space

Ordinance Campaign: Partners

Ordinance Campaigns
Process
Identify and research potential partners
Reach out to present model reforms to potential coalition partners
Craft a jurisdiction-specific coalition letter as a vehicle to engage local officials
BORDC support for local campaigns
Public events, education, mobilization
Media outreach, op-eds
Research, legislative drafting

Coordinating Online & On the Ground
BORDC model ordinances
Get FISA Right and social media

Get FISA Right
Concept began June 26, 2008 with a post from Mardi.
Created a new group on the Obama social network, My.BarackObama.com, asking Senator Obama, Please Get FISA Right.
Mike Stark kicked off what would become a robust blogosphere discussion about civic engagement and if Obama will feel the sting of social networking.

Impacting the Discourse
The number of group members skyrocketed to 22,000, and the mainstream media took notice at this new style of democratic discourse.
Members signed an open letter to which, in unprecedented fashion, Obama was compelled to respond.
Leaders spreading word of the group & coordinating discussion emerged, including Dawn Teo, Ari Melber, Aviva Dancis, Chip Pitts, John Joseph Bachir, Carlo Scanella, Andy Famiglietti, and Jon Pincus.

Preparing for Future Fights
Used crowdsource model to conceive and fund 30 second TV ads through SaysMe.TV before both the conventions and the inauguration.
Change.org/MySpace Ideas for Change.
Language adopted as part of Netroots Platform.
Catalyzed at CFP 2009 birds of a feather session: New Strategies to Fighting FISA & the Patriot Act.
Building a broad-based coalition, including students and migrant groups, was the #1 recommendation.

Curtailing Communication Hurdles
Begin holding weekly conference calls and online chats, in addition to calls specifically for bloggers, to coordinate online activism & group cohesion.
Meticulously documented, all available on the Get FISA Right blog.
Include organizations such as EFF, ACLU, BORDC, FireDogLake, etc.
New GFR leaders come into the fold, including Mark Dorlester, Korkie Moore-Bruno, Jim Burrows, Amy Ringenbach, Thomas Nephew, Salli Jane, TalatGilaniHamdani etc.

Engaging New Practices
Coordinating online and on the ground considered key, and the local ordinance campaign specifically targeted since October 2009.
Social networks provide a unique opportunity to engage diverse audiences and convince them to activate.
Taking advantage of Twitter as a place to engage with women, people of color, migrant rights groups, & those generally marginalized from other forms of activism.

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