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Advocacy and Letters -
Letters to Government Agencies Signed by TMA
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Written by Coalition
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Friday, 18 May 2007 |
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May 17, 2007 The Honorable Harry Reid 528 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Mitch McConnell 361-A Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Dear Senator Reid and Senator McConnell: We write on behalf of the undersigned group of 100 business, public interest, and historical groups and associations to endorse the OPEN Government Act of 2007 (S. 849), as introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator John Cornyn. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is the public’s most significant tool for ensuring integrity and accountability from the federal government. Unfortunately, FOIA’s promise of ensuring an open and accountable government has been seriously undermined by the excessive processing delays that FOIA requesters face across the government. The OPEN Government Act would:
• Close loopholes in FOIA; • Help the public get timely responses to FOIA requests; and • Improve agency accountability and require better management of FOIA programs.
The public's confidence in the executive branch has reached a dramatic low point. The OPEN Government Act of 2007 would demonstrate bipartisan congressional leadership to restore public faith in government and to advance the ideals of openness that our democracy embodies. The Senate Judiciary Committee has reported favorably upon the bill without any amendments. We urge you to support this legislation and help it move quickly to the Senate floor for a vote.
Sincerely,
Alliance for Justice American Association of Law Libraries American Association of Small Property Owners American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) American Families United American Library Association Animal Welfare Institute ASPCA Assassination Archives and Research Center Association of American Publishers Bill of Rights Defense Committee Biodiversity Conservation Alliance Blancett Ranches, Aztec, NM Californians Aware Californians for Western Wilderness Center for Democracy and Technology Center for Energy Research Center for National Security Studies Citizen Action New Mexico Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) Common Cause Community Recovery Services Conservation Congress Doctors for Open Government DownsizeDC.org, Inc. The E-Accountability Foundation/Parentadvocates.org Electronic Frontier Foundation Environmental Defense Institute Environmental Integrity Project Ethics in Government Group Fernald Residents for Environmental Safety & Health, Inc. Florida First Amendment Foundation Forest Guardians Friends Committee on National Legislation Friends of Animals Friends of the Wild Swan Georgia ForestWatch Georgians for Open Government Government Accountability Project Great Basin Mine Watch Gun Owners of America HALT, Inc The Health Integrity Project HEAL Utah The Humane Society of the United States Idaho Sporting Congress, Inc. Indiana Coalition for Open Government The James Madison Project Law Librarian Association of Greater New York Law Librarians Association of Wisconsin League of Women Voters of the U.S. Liberty Coalition Los Alamos Study Group Maine Association of Broadcasters Mine Safety and Health News The Multiracial Activist National Coalition Against Censorship National Freedom of Information Coalition National Security Archive National Taxpayers Union National Treasury Employees Union National Whistleblower Center Natural Resources Defense Council The New Grady Coalition No FEAR Coalition Northern California Association of Law Libraries Northwest Environmental Advocates Nuclear Watch New Mexico Okanogan Highlands Bottling Company OMB Watch Open Society Policy Center OpenTheGovernment.org Oregon Natural Desert Association Oregon PeaceWorks Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, Inc. People For the American Way Project On Government Oversight Public Citizen ReadtheBill.org Education Fund Republican Liberty Caucus Reynolds, Motl & Sherwood, PLLP The Rutherford Institute Sagebrush Sea Campaign Semmelweis Society International Snake River Alliance Society of American Archivists Society of Professional Journalists Society for Animal Protective Legislation Southern California Association of Law Libraries Southwest Research and Information Center The Student Health Integrity Project Tax Analysts Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) Union of Concerned Scientists VA Whistleblowers Coalition Western Environmental Law Center Western Lands Project Western Resource Advocates The Wilderness Society Wild Wilderness Wilderness Workshop
cc: Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Sen. John Cornyn, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, Sen. Russell D. Feingold, Sen. Johnny Isakson, Sen. John F. Kerry, Sen. Mary Landrieu, Sen. Bernard Sanders, Sen. Arlen Specter
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A Mixed Blog -
Default Category
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Written by Matthew T. Reid
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Thursday, 17 May 2007 |
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Hi, I just discovered this website and I find it very interesting to write and read with others who experiecned the same life situations as I have being biracial. It is also beneficial to read new stories in order to get some food for thought from others. I myself grew up in a multicultural household and the understanding of who you are is very important and I was deprived of that in my childhood, I found out through ignorance and not knowing any responses made situations difficult at times. I am Jamaican and Pennsylvania Dutch and I started to learn the differences as a teenager. As I became a man it got much easier to deal with like it may be for many others and I've learn the more you learn about this topic the better off you are. When I attended college I bought a book titled "The Color of Water" (A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by James McBride). I found this book very interesting and I would recomend it to any Black/White mixed person. As I continued to read more on these blogs I hope others will find useful info with the blogs I'll being sending. PEACE Comments (1) | Add as favourites (44) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 3329 |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 26 May 2007 )
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A Mixed Blog -
From The Editor
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Written by James A. Landrith
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Wednesday, 02 May 2007 |
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The Privacy Coalition, of which The Multiracial Activist has participated with on past advocacy efforts, has launched a campaign against the REAL ID Act. See the following for more information on the REAL ID Act and why it is a threat to your liberty: Prior TMA involved advocacy efforts regarding REAL ID/National IDs: Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (38) | Quote this article on your site | Views: 2305 |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 May 2007 )
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The News -
Press Releases Sent By TMA and Coalition Partners
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Written by ADC
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Tuesday, 01 May 2007 |
ADC Press Release: Over 40 Groups Announce Anti-National REAL ID Public Comment Campaign
Washington, DC | May 1, 2007 | www.adc.org | Today, forty-two organizations representing trans-partisan, nonpartisan, privacy, consumer, civil liberty, civil rights, and immigrant organizations have joined to launch a national campaign to solicit public comments to stop the nation's first national ID system-REAL ID. The deadline to submit comments is 5pm on Tuesday, May 8.
The groups joining in the anti-REAL ID campaign are concerned about the increased threat of counterfeiting and identity theft, lack of security to protect against unauthorized access to the document's machine readable content, increased cost to taxpayers, diverting of state funds intended for homeland security, increased costs for obtaining a license or state issued ID card, the possibility of profiling on the basis of national origin and/or race, and because the REAL ID would create a false belief that it is secure and unforgeable.
This effort builds on the momentum of broad opposition to the REAL ID in the nation. Montana has become the fifth state, following Maine, Idaho, Arkansas, and Washington, to prohibit cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in implementing the REAL ID national identification system.
Under the Act, states and the federal government would share access to a vast national database that could include images of birth certificates; marriage licenses; divorce papers; court ordered separations; medical records; and detailed information on the name, date of birth, race, religion, ethnicity, gender, address, telephone, e-mail address, social security numbers for more than 240 million with no requirements or controls on how this database might be used. Many may not have the documents required to obtain a REAL ID, or they may face added requirements based on arbitrary decisions made by DMV employees.
The draft regulations to implement the REAL ID Act are open for comment until 5 p.m. EST on May 8, 2007. To take action, submit comments against the fundamentally flawed national identification scheme, under Docket No. 2006-0030.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), which is the largest non-sectarian and non-partisan Arab-American grassroots civil rights organization, is strongly opposed to REAL ID. Carol Khawly, ADC Director of Legal Advocacy, said "As a community, we fear that the REAL ID card will be used by different government agencies as well as private parties to profile individuals who look foreign or who have a foreign name. The Act negatively impacts the rights of the Arab-American community as well as other immigrant communities, seriously affects individual privacy rights, and promotes unjust discrimination and profiling on the basis of ethnicity and religion."
Online: Through the public submission portal at: http://www.regulations.gov
Or use one of the more user-friendly sites found at the following web addresses:
EFF: https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr007=jursz5zko3.app13b&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=287
Privacy Activism http://stoprealid.privacyactivism.org/wiki/index.php?title=Instructions_for_filing_comments
To Fax Comments to the Department of Homeland Security: Electronic Frontier Foundation: http://action.eff.org/site/Advocacy?id=287, Privacy Coalition http://www.privacycoalition.org/stoprealid/sampletext.html or send a letter to the agency at Fax 1-866-466-5370.
Postal mail: Department of Homeland Security Attn: NAC 1-12037 Washington, DC 20528
ALL COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY UNTIL 5:00 PM EST ON MAY 8, 2007.
FYI: OTHER ANTI-REAL ID ONLINE RESOURCES:
ACLU http://www.realnightmare.org/ EFF http://www.eff.org/Privacy/ID/RealID/ EPIC http://www.epic.org/privacy/id_cards Liberty Coalition http://www.libertycoalition.net/issues/national-id-0 Privacy Activism http://stoprealidnow.blogspot.com/ Privacy Rights Clearinghouse http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/real_id_act.htm
LIST OF ALL OF THE GROUPS SUPPORTING THIS CAMPAIGN
1. American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations 2. American Library Association 3. American Policy Center 4. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee 5. Association of American Physicians & Surgeons 6. Bill of Rights Defense Committee 7. Center for Digital Democracy 8. Center for Financial Privacy and Human Rights 9. Citizen Outreach Project. 10. Citizens Against Government Waste 11. Common Cause 12. Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility 13. Consumer Action 14. DownsizeDC.org 15. Electronic Frontier Foundation 16. Electronic Privacy Information Center 17. Fairfax County Privacy Council 18. Give Me Back My Rights Coalition 19. Government Accountability Project 20. Gun Owners of America 21. Immigrant Workers Union 22. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights 23. Liberty Coalition 24. National Center for Transgender Equality 25. National Council of Jewish Women 26. National Council of La Raza 27. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force 28. National Immigration Law Center 29. OpenCarry.org 30. Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays 31. Patient Privacy Rights Foundation 32. Privacy Activism 33. Privacy Rights Clearinghouse 34. Privacy Times 35. Republican Liberty Caucus 36. Rutherford Institute, The 37. The Arc of the United States United Cerebral Palsy 38. The Multiracial Activist 39. US Bill of Rights Foundation 40. Virginia Citizens Defense League 41. Virginia Gun Owners Coalition 42. World Privacy Forum
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 02 May 2007 )
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A Mixed Blog -
A.D. Powell's View
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Written by A.D. Powell
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
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I've heard that "multiracial identity" will be the topic on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation" this afternoon (2 pm Eastern Time) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9849015 A.D. Powell
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