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Demand Progress update

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   Happy Monday. We have two exciting bits of news for you:

   With the support of thousands of Demand Progress activists and others, the
   House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a major surveillance reform
   measure late last week:

   WASHINGTON POST: "House votes to rein in NSA `back door' surveillance
   powers"

   If the language makes it through the Senate, this amendment would ban the
   NSA from conducting warrantless searches of of Americans' communications.

   Since the Snowden leaks, Demand Progress has helped lead surveillance
   reform efforts, organizing campaigns that have driven more than 100,000
   phone calls and hundreds of thousands of emails to lawmakers, and working
   the halls of Congress week-in and week-out.

   This win signals continued drive for reform -- not just by millions of
   activists, but even by federal lawmakers. That's huge.


   And that brings us to our second exciting piece of news: There's an easy
   and *FREE* way that you can help support our important ongoing work this
   month so that we can achieve more victories like this one.

   We have been selected as one of three nonprofit groups that will receive
   funds from CREDO this month. How much we get depends on you.

   CREDO is a progressive activist network and a provider of mobile and long
   distance phone services, as well as the CREDO credit card. They donate a
   portion of their revenue to a wide range of nonprofit groups. Last year
   they raised $2.6 million and, since 1985, CREDO has raised more than $76
   million.

   Each month, they ask CREDO/Working Assets customers and CREDO Action
   members to vote for the groups they think should receive the funding. This
   is where you come in. The more votes we receive, the greater our share of
   funding.

   Voting is easy, free and an effective way to support us. If you are a
   CREDO/Working Assets customer or a CREDO Action member -- meaning somebody
   who receives CREDO's email alerts -- just go to click here to
   vote: [1]www.credodonations.com.

   [2]Voting here is a *FREE* way for you to help make sure that we can keep
   up our efforts to protect the Internet and our broader democracy.

   Not a CREDO member? It's easy to join!

     * Sign a CREDO Action petition at [3]www.credoaction.com -- this will
       take 30 seconds and make you eligibile to vote
     * Sign up for mobile phone service: [4]www.credomobile.com
     * Get the credit card that creates progressive change with every
       purchase:[5]www.credocreditcard.com
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       at [6]www.credolongdistance.com

   Thanks so much -- this funding is critical to forwarding our work on
   issues like ending mass surveillance and supporting net neutrality.

   [7]Please click here to vote today so we can keep on fighting.

   Thanks.

   -Demand Progress

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   monthly sustainer [3]by clicking here. Thank you!
   

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Reset the net update

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Looks l like the campaign had an effect.

You did it! Late last night — after they were bombarded by calls from FFTF members and many others — the U.S. House of Representatives http://fight4future.tumblr.com/post/89385245478/the-u-s-house-of-representatives-just-voted-to-cut?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0OTI3NzE3LGVtYWlsaWQ9ODc4OQ==
There’s no question about it. The tides are turning. We didn’t just win this vote, we won it by a landslide. 293-123.
Our movement is showing it’s power, and organized Internet users are once again proving to be a more formidable force than the U.S. government (or any of the pundits) expected.

https://www.tumblr.com/fight4future/89385245478/the-us-house-of-representatives-just-voted-to


We still have a long way to go. No matter what happens in Congress, we will need to continue our Reset the Net effort to secure the web through technology. As we know all too well, governments often bend and break the rules they set for themselves, and so far the reforms on the table in Congress don’t do nearly enough to protect the rights of people outside the U.S.
But one thing is certain: we are gaining ground, and the NSA is losing it. We’re beating them back with technology, pushing politicians to cut their funding, and dragging their secretive programs out into the sunlight for all to see.
This vote in congress didn’t happen by magic. So many of us have spoken out in the last year and made it clear in no uncertain terms that mass surveillance is not okay. Our movement has become too big for Congress to ignore. We forced them to go on record supporting change.

https://www.tumblr.com/fight4future/89385245478/the-us-house-of-representatives-just-voted-to


We still have much work to do, but today is a day worth celebrating! More soon.
Sincerely,
-Tiffiniy, Holmes, and Evan
Fight for the Future
P.S. Fight for the Future helped lead the charge to ensure that these Amendments passed, and we’ll be there tomorrow and the next day to move this fight forward. http://donate.fightforthefuture.org?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0OTI3NzE3LGVtYWlsaWQ9ODc4OQ== Our small team will make every penny count.

 

 
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Reset the net

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This is copied from the e-mail I had from info@sendgrid.net looks like Reset the Net had some effect but the fight isn’t over.  Read on.
Reset the Net just won a real victory against the NSA, defending the privacy of millions. But we need your help to keep adding more sites, and protecting more people!Can you chip in to beat the NSA and save our democracy?https://donate.fightforthefuture.org/https://donate.fightforthefuture.org/?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0OTI3NzE3LGVtYWlsaWQ9ODc3MQ==

Dear Fight for the Future member,We know how to fight the NSA. Finally.It’s been one year since the Snowden leaks and, with Reset the Net, I feel like we just landed our first real punch, and got our first real result. Now the question is: can we keep fighting?Reset the Net worked so well. Huge services like Tumblr, WordPress, and Sendgrid announced new encryption that–thanks to Snowden–we know makes spying harder. Meanwhile, thousands of sites (including Minecraft, one of the world’s most-downloaded games) drove downloads of encrypted calling and texting tools all day on Thursday.Not a techie? Well, to the NSA, that means our private conversations will increasingly look like this: “I9XJKigrOgyymB1oEtF37xoKDzXuS5NbbRGT5Rq4GA1VCJYC”The scale of what we’re achieving is just staggering. Sendgrid alone delivers billions of emails each month. Now, those emails are encrypted, safer.So we can’t stop now, but this is intense work! Last week was a huge lift for our small team. We think we can get dozens, maybe hundreds more huge sites to step up. But to do it, we’ll need a full-time organizer: someone to approach sites, convince them to join, and plan more days of action. Can you donate to keep Reset the Net going?https://donate.fightforthefuture.org/Our?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0OTI3NzE3LGVtYWlsaWQ9ODc3MQ== tiny organization is facing a battle on two fronts. We are finally making dents in the NSA’s surveillance system, but meanwhile America’s cable monopolies are attacking the fundamental principles of the open Internet–the ones that make campaigns like this possible. Alone, either of these would be the fight of our lives. Together, it’s almost more than we can handle.But we think we can do both, and we have to: each win means so much. Reset the Net was 6 months of work. Now that the campaign structure is in place, we just need to keep adding sites to our roster, and encouraging sites who’ve already joined to keep pushing the envelope. We don’t need expensive design or development help, just one driven full-time organizer. Someone who can keep nudging this snowball forward, until it becomes an avalanche. Can you pitch in?https://donate.fightforthefuture.org/This?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0OTI3NzE3LGVtYWlsaWQ9ODc3MQ== is what victory looks like. Sincerely,Evan, Holmes, Tiffiniy and the whole Fight for the Future teamP.S. We are serious. If this email goes well we are hiring an organizer right now. Interested? Reply with links to work you’ve done.

 
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