Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Madison Area Peace Coalition E-mails Description An account of the resource The Madison Area Peace Coalition (MAPC) formed fourteen days after the September 11 attacks to oppose (among other goals) the use of U.S. military, economic, or political force – whether direct or proxy, overt or covert -- "that violates the sovereignty or human rights of any nation or people." The Archive has assembled here e-mails exchanges from MAPC dating from the group's founding until late November 2001. September 11 Email September 11 Email: Body The basic content, as unstructured text; sometimes containing a signature block at the end. Hi X, Below is some civil liberties legislation issue related info. ********* Anyone moved to contact their Senators and Representatives regarding the stifling provisions of the following bills and draft bills should please do so: Ashcroft's "Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA)" Sen. Leahy's "Uniting and Strengthening of      America Act (USAA)" Rep. Smith's Public Safety and Cyber Security Enhancement Act (PSCSEA, H.R. 2915) Sen. Hatch's Combating Terrorism Act (CTA, amendment S.A. 1562 to bill H.R. 2500) Sen. Graham's Intelligence to Prevent Terrorism Act (IPTA, S.      1448) Sen. Gregg's draft anti-encryption legislation. ************************************************ Electronic Frontier Foundation ACTION ALERT (Issued: Wednesday, September 27, 2001 / Deadline: Friday, October 7, 2001, unless extended)    San Francisco, California - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today condemned portions of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) currently under consideration in Congress which would treat all computer trespass as terrorism (in addition to other provisions we oppose, such as vast expansion of surveillance authority).    "Treating low-level computer crimes as terrorist acts is not an    appropriate response to recent events," said EFF Executive Director    Shari Steele. "A relatively harmless online prankster should not face    a potential life sentence in prison." The ATA includes provisions that dramatically increase the penalties for acts that have no apparent relationship to terrorism. For instance, the bill would add low-level computer intrusion, already a crime under other laws, to the list of "federal terrorism offenses," creating penalties of up to life imprisonment, adding broad pre-conviction asset seizure powers and serious criminal threats to those who "materially assist" or "harbor" individuals suspected of causing minimal damage to networked computers. Attorney General John Ashcroft asked Congress last week to pass the ATA, formerly known as the Mobilization Against Terrorism Act(MATA), with less than one week of consideration. EFF believes the ATA would radically tip the United States system of checks and balances, giving the government unprecedented authority to surveil American citizens with little judicial or other oversight. What YOU Can Do Now:      * Contact your own legislators about the ATA/MATA and related bills AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Call them, and fax and/or e-mail the EFF letter below (or your own) today. Postal mail will be too slow on this issue. Feel free to use this letter verbatim, or modify it as you wish. Let them know that you do not believe liberty must be sacrified for security. Please be polite and concise, but firm.  For information on how to contact your legislators and other government officials, see EFF's "Contacting Congress and Other Policymakers" guide at: http://www.eff.org/congress.html Sample Letter: Use this sample letter to YOUR legislators or modify it, and send to their Washington fax and e-mail, which you can get from Project Vote Smart: http://www.vote-smart.org/vote-smart/data.phtml?dtype=C&style= or the House: http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html and Senate: http://www.senate.gov/senators/index.cfm websites. Dear Sen./Rep. [Surname] I write as a constituent to express my gravest concern over aspects of the Congressional response to the tragedies of September 11.  While I share your grief and anger in no uncertain terms, I do not believe that sacrificing essential liberties in a vain hope of improving security is good for America or the world. Security can be improved without privacy invasion, and we cannot win an attack on freedom by attacking that freedom ourselves. I urge you to work to remove from anti-terrorism bills any provisions that call for expanded wiretap powers or online monitoring, warrantless pen register or trap and trace authority, censorship, restrictions on encryption, warrantless "fishing expeditions" in student or other records, or redefinition of minor computer crimes as terrorism. While there is be a need for a Congressional response to terrorism, vast expansion of the powers of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to invade privacy is not an appropriate part of that response. Presently these bills and draft bills include A-G Ashcroft's Anti- Terrorism Act (ATA); Sen. Leahy's Uniting and Strengthening of America Act (USAA); Rep. Smith's Public Safety and Cyber Security Enhancement Act (PSCSEA, H.R. 2915); Sen. Hatch's Combating Terrorism Act (CTA, amendment S.A. 1562 to bill H.R. 2500); and Sen. Graham's Intelligence to Prevent Terrorism Act (IPTA, S.1448), and Sen. Gregg's draft anti-encryption legislation. The United States should not take steps toward becoming a police state, or otherwise undermine our own freedom in the name of defending that freedom from terrorist attack, or the terrorists have already won. I also object to provisions being passed in response to terrorism but which have nothing to do with terrorism, such as "emergency" wiretaps against simple computer crime incidents and the abuse of grand juries as tools for intelligence agencies, and undermining of the very encryption that helps secure our communications infrastructure from futher attack. This is a time for careful consideration, not for passing legislation without debate or careful consideration of the consequences. ************* Our MAPC Press Release... October 7th is the National Day of Action for Peace called by the War Resisters League. In concert with this day, the Madison Peace Action Coalition is organizing street theatre to call attention to impending attempts to limit our civil liberties. The U.S. House Judiciary has already approved restrictive legislation (H.R. 2975) and the U.S. Senate will be acting on an even more repressive bill this coming week. Among the bills most troubling provisions: q Allow for indefinite detention of non-citizens, even if they have successfully challenged a government effort to deport them. q Minimize judicial supervision of federal telephone and Internet surveillance by law enforcement authorities. q Expand the ability of the government to conduct secret searches. q Give the Attorney General and the Secretary of State the power to designate domestic groups as terrorist organizations. q Grant the FBI broad access to sensitive business records about individuals without having to show evidence of a crime. q Lead to large-scale investigations of American citizens for intelligence purposes. "Ten years from now, our fear is that the American public will look back to this legislation and say, 'this is where we crossed the line to a surveillance society,'" says Laura W. Murphy, Director of the ACLU's Washington National Office. Participants in Sundays street theatre will be demonstrating effects of loss of civil liberties. They will have duct tape covering their mouths, handcuffs and prison attire. They will carry signs and literature protesting this legislation. It will move from the UW Library Mall to the Civic Center, the Federal Courthouse, the State Capitol, and finish at the City County Building, with signs being left at each location. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Monday, October 08, 2001 8:04 AM September 11 Email: To The email addresses, and optionally names of the message's recipients X September 11 Email: From The email address, and optionally the name of the author. X [mailto:X] September 11 Email: CC The email addresses of those who received the message addressed primarily to another. NULL September 11 Email: Subject A brief summary of the topic of the message. Some press release and Electronic Frontier Foundation info. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Some press release and Electronic Frontier Foundation info. 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. email Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2001-10-08