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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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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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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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