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 all, following is an action alert I just received from CA - maybe we could take this line in our meeting with Feingold on Monday? Say, given the Senator's courageous support for our civil liberties, what can he do (what can we do) to urge the conference cmte to come up with a compromise bill that does a better job of protecting our rights???? I don't know how likely it is, but it's worth a shot, no? -x ____________________________________________ East Timor Action Network field organizer   ETAN field office Social Justice Center office 608-663-5431                         1202 Williamson St cell 608-347-4598                           Madison, WI 53703 home 608-255-4598                           fax 608-227-0141 Check out these internet sites! the East Timor Action Network/US http://www.etan.org Madison, WI - East Timor projects http://www.aideasttimor.org Madison's Social Justice Center http://www.socialjusticecenter.org "Independence is not about having a flag, a president, a parliament, a government. Independence must imply, year by year, gradual change in the life of the entire population of Timor Lorosa'e. If we fail to effect change in the daily life of the people, independence will be a meaningless concept, all our sacrifices throughout the years of the struggle will be in vain. And not one of us will allow this to occur." -Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão ---------- From: x Reply-To: x Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:55:29 EDT To: "The surge mailing list" <x> Subject: [surge] EXTREMELY URGENT: Re-write Anti-terrorism Bills to Protect Civil Liberties NOW!!! Regarding the Senate anti-terrorism bill (SB 1510 - http://Thomas.loc.gov ) that passed almost unanimously (Sen. Russ Feingold, D-WI, was the exception) last Thursday and its companion bill in the House (HR 2975) that passed 337 to 79 last Friday: By voting for these bills in your respective Houses, you have betrayed both liberty and justice--those great American values that you are purporting to defend. Indeed, the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights are one of the few things that make this country great. You should be fiercely protecting these freedoms; instead, you have betrayed them. SB 1510 and HR 2975 are unconstitutional. However, there is still time to right this terrible wrong: If both Houses negotiate a compromise between their respective bills in conference, you can take the opportunity to create a bill that does not violate the basic tenets on which this country was founded. Currently, these bills strike no balance between security and liberty. These bills both directly violate the Constitution and existing laws that ensure the public's rights to privacy and due process, and in addition, because of the vague language used to define "domestic terrorism" and what constitutes "supporting terrorism," they also pose an enormous threat to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Assembly--the public's rights to openly criticize and thereby change policies and institutions. A major concern here is that the Powers-that-be could use this legislation to eradicate public dissent--in particular, the Administration and the Special Interests it serves (e.g., Big Oil, Big Business) could use this legislation to silence its critics among the general public. Already in a speech to Congress, the Administration's Trade Representative Robert Zoellick has outrageously equated opponents of "free trade" to terrorists. According to the ACLU, the most troubling provisions in both the Senate and the House anti-terrorism bills include the following, which should be corrected in conference: --Permits Information Sharing: Allows information obtained during criminal investigations to be distributed to the CIA, NSA, INS, Secret Service and military, without judicial review, and with no limits as to how these agencies can use the information once they have it. --Authorizes "Sneak and Peek Searches": Authorizes expanded use of covert searches for any criminal investigation, thus allowing the government to enter your home, office or other private place and conduct a search, take photographs, and download your computer files without notifying you until later. --Allows Forum Shopping: Law enforcement can apply for warrants in any court in any jurisdiction where it is conducting an investigation for a search anywhere in the country. This would make it very difficult for individuals subjected to searches to challenge the warrant. --Creates New Crime of Domestic Terrorism: Creates an entirely new type of crime, which is unnecessary for the prosecution of the "War on Terrorism." By expanding the definition of terrorism in such a way, the bill could potentially allow the government to levy heavy penalties for relatively minor offenses, including political protests. --Allows the CIA to Spy on Americans: Gives the Director of Central Intelligence the power to manage the gathering of intelligence in America and mandate the disclosure of information obtained by the FBI about terrorism in general - even if it is about law-abiding American citizens - to the CIA. --Imposes Indefinite Detention: Permits authorities to indefinitely detain non-citizens, without meaningful judicial review. --Reduces Privacy in Student Records: Allows law enforcement to access, use and disseminate highly personal information about American and foreign students. --Expands Wiretap Authority: Minimizes judicial supervision of law enforcement wiretap authority in several ways, including: permitting law enforcement to obtain the equivalent of "blank" warrants in the physical world; authorizing intelligence wiretaps that need not specify the phone to be tapped or require that only the target's conversations be eavesdropped upon; and allowing the FBI to use its "intelligence" authority to circumvent the judicial review of the probable cause requirement of the Fourth Amendment. September 11 Email: Date The local time and date when the message was written. Wednesday, October 17, 2001 4:06 PM 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 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. [MAPC-policy] Re-write Anti-terrorism Bills to Protect Civil 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 [MAPC-policy] Re-write Anti-terrorism Bills to Protect Civil 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. 2001-10-17