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NetzTrends supports Edward Snowden demonstration in Washington on October 26

"We’re less than a month out from the single biggest protest against the NSA surveillance state yet. More than 2,000 people have already said they’re joining us in Washington DC on October 26th – but to ensure this rally sends a clear message to Congress that this is something they need to deal with we need as many people as possible to show up. So we ask: Can you join us in Washington, DC on October 26th to protest NSA surveillance? Yes, I can make it – I’ll see you in DC in October! or No, I can’t make it – but I can chip in $20 to make the rally better!

30.09.2013
Netz-Trends unterstützt die Demo in Washington gegen Barack Obamas Stasibehörde NSA.

The Web-Magazine Netz-Trends supports the demonstration for Edward Snowden in Washington on the 26th of October. This is why we publish the following Call from David Segal, organisator of a huge Action against total state control in the Internet or Mobile Phones. David Segal wrote us:

Edward Snowden laid everything out: The NSA is watching us online and on our phones. It’s corrupting security to break the fabric of the Internet. The overreaching surveillance creates a climate of fear, chills free speech and violates our basic human rights — and it operates without any meaningful oversight. But a movement is building to change all this. And we're about to take the next step. Join us on Saturday, October 26 — the 12th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. PATRIOT Act — with thousands of people from across the political spectrum in Washington, D.C. to protest mass surveillance.

At the Stop Watching Us rally on Oct. 26, we’ll remind our elected officials that they work for us, not the NSA, and that they must reform the laws that have led to the NSA’s abuses and to hold the NSA accountable for its anti-democratic programs.
More than half a million of us have already spoken out since we first learned about the NSA’s unconstitutional surveillance by signing our petition, and dozens of members of Congress have stood up to introduce bills that would reign in the NSA.
But these bills -- and our voices – need to coalesce as a movement to end this spying. October 26 is our chance to show the country that this isn’t a small issue, and we won’t go away until it’s fixed – and that means going to Washington, DC at the end of October.

We’re not doing this alone – we’re organizing this rally as Stop Watching Us — a diverse coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations and companies from across ideological lines, including both us at Demand Progress, as well as the ACLU, Access, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, FreedomWorks, Fight for the Future, Free Press, Mozilla, Reddit, and Restore the Fourth.

That’s why this will be the biggest rally for privacy the U.S. has ever seen. Will you be there?
See you soon.

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