To-do TODAY: Protest CISPA

I spent the weekend with a bunch of digital and IP activists at Innovate/Activate 2.0, and one thing that came up consistently in the panel discussions is that constituents contacting Congress works. It's not that all Congresspeople are corrupt, as one person said; it's just that they need someone to tell them what to think about most issues, and unless constituents do that, it's going to be industry lobbyists.

Or, as one HIV medical justice activist put it to me on the BART, "If we organize, we win."

So, today is the day to call your Congressperson and tell them to vote against CISPA, the comprehensive bill that would completely eradicate all semblance of user privacy on the Internet and that is going to vote tomorrow.

Here is a link to find your representatives' phone numbers and a call script. eta: link stripped. /eta

Here is a link to sign the open letter protesting CISPA, as well as links to multiple organizations' write-ups of why it's so atrocious, including EFF and the ACLU.