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FREE! Privacy and electronic freedom organizations and sites, if you would like your legal, family-oriented web site to be considered for a free listing here, email us at feedback2 [at] eagleridgestore [dot] com with your org. name, email address, contact name, description, and URL. "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- in "An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pennsylvania," published in 1759 by Benjamin Franklin and often attributed to him or to Richard Jackson. Franklin did write the similar "Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power" in 1738 in Poor Richard's Almanack. "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt, 1783 Article 12 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Right": "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks." |
Privacy & Electronic
Freedom Information and Resources
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Help out! Donate to the EFF. |
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) -- "EFF is a non-profit group of passionate people — lawyers, volunteers, and visionaries — working to protect your digital rights." This is one of the premier groups in the world working for online rights. Covers the following issues and more: Action Alerts - Anonymity - Anti-Terrorism - Blogs - Censorship - Copyright Law - Digital Rights Management - Domain names - Filtering - International - Internet governance - ISP legalities - Licensing/UCITA - Linking - Patents - Pending legislation - Privacy - Public records/FOIA - Reverse engineering - Spam - States - Surveillance - Trademark law - USA PATRIOT Act - What's New - Wireless |
| Support EPIC | Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) -- "public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values." EPIC has lots of news and information about freedom, and an excellent newsletter about "civil liberties in the information age," the EPIC Alert. |
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Tennessee Digital Freedom Network -- A group of IT professionals, students and concerned citizens who have dedicated ourselves to protecting the right of Tennesseans to freely use digital technology in their lives. Currently, theirr primary focus is the new "Super-DMCA" bill proposed by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), which has been proposed in Tennessee's state legislature as Senate Bill 213 and House Bill 457. |
| Some interesting political tests at PoliticalCompass.org: test, Iconochasms | |
| Cryptome - excellent source of cryptography and security-related news. | |
| International Cryptography Freedom -- excellent source of links on cryptography. | |
| Chilling Effects -- "A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics." "The website offers background material and explanations of the law for people whose websites deal with topics such as Fan Fiction, Copyright, Domain Names and Trademarks, Anonymous Speech, and Defamation." | |
| Campaign for Reader Privacy - Amend Section 215 of the Patriot Act to restore US privacy in libraries and bookstores | |
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ACLU
- The American Civil Liberties Union defends the Bill of Rights. "Keep America
safe AND free." Tip: sign up for their free action alert that makes it easy to
contact your elected representatives in time about freedom-related issues.
ACLU Real ID Action Center - see what is going on in your state! |
| "Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine." -- Thoreau | Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau. Classic essay in three pages online. Well worth another read. |
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LeaveMyChildAlone.org
- The "No Child Left Behind"
Act requires public high schools to turn over private student contact info to
military recruiters or risk losing federal funds. The Pentagon has
compiled a recruitment list of more than 30 million young people, including
children as young as 16. To opt your child out of these lists, go to: LeaveMyChildAlone.org. |
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| LinkTV.org - Wonderful independent channel for news and analysis. "Link TV broadcasts programs that engage, educate and activate viewers to become involved in the world. These programs provide a unique perspective on international news, current events, and diverse cultures, presenting issues not often covered in the U.S. media. (They) connect American viewers with people at the heart of breaking events, organizations in the forefront of social change and the cultures of an increasingly global community." | |
| NotBored.org - the Security Camera Players. Excellent info on security camera abuse. | |
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Save Title IX |
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"First they came for the
communists, and I did not speak out-- -- The Reverend Martin Niemöller, a pastor who spent seven years in a concentration camp. |
Get Your War On -
many pages of excellent War on Terrorism comics by David Rees Petitions Online - distribute your own electronic petition quickly and easily online |
| The Specifically Designated Nationals List (SDNL): new "shunned class" in the USA | |
"Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." -- Hermann Goering in comments to Gustave Gilbert, 18 April 1946. |
"A wise and frugal government which shall
restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to
regulate thier own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from
the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good
government" -- Thomas Jefferson, 1801 |
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"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice." -- George Jackson "Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism." - George Washington "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official...." - Theodore Roosevelt "Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other." - James Madison "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it." - Edward R. Murrow
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"An inglorious peace is better than a
dishonorable war." - Mark Twain
"It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else." - Theodore Roosevelt "Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." - General Douglas MacArthur "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." -Wilhelm Stekel, physician and psychologist (1868-1940)
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