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DESCRIPTION:Reset The Net SF - Shame on Feinstein Delivers Thousands of Petitions to 
 Dianne Feinstein Noon June 5th\n\nSan Francisco-On the one year anniversary 
 of the first Edward Snowden revelation, Internet users nationwide will 
 "reset the net" for a safer and more secure on-line experience and Bay Area 
 activists will deliver thousands of petitions to CA senator Dianne 
 Feinstein at her 1 Post Street street offices. Activists will meet with 
 Feinstein aide John Murray at 11:00am and talk with press and supporters 
 outside 1 Post Street at noon. \n\nWho: Reset The Net San Francisco 
 Event\n\nWhen: June 5, 2014 Noon\n\nWhere: San Francisco office of Senator 
 Dianne Feinstein. Post and Market Streets San Francisco\n\nWhy: Because 
 denying mass surveillance and failing to effectively oversee the 
 intelligence community as the Chair of Senate Intelligence isn't okay. 
 Senator Feinstein should resign as chair of the Senate Intelligence 
 Committee and stop undermining real reform of NSA surveillance. \n\nThe 
 Shame on Feinstein Coalition came together in November of 2013 with anchor 
 groups Restore The Fourth-Bay Area, The Bill of Rights Defense Committee 
 (BORDC), Code Pink, Media Alliance, The 99% Coalition and the National 
 Lawyers Guild-SF. 26 groups and 2,046 individuals signed an open letter to 
 CA's senior senator demanding an end to her denial of the extent of 
 domestic and international surveillance and her attempts to obstruct 
 reform. \n\nThe open letter can be seen here:  
 https://shameonfeinstein.org/.\n\nIn the ensuing seven months, the 
 Senator's position was undermined by revelations about CIA spying on the 
 Senate Intelligence Committee itself which, rightfully, raised Senator 
 Feinstein's umbrage, just as earlier reports of mass blanket surveillance 
 upset hundreds of thousands of Americans.\n\nSenator Feinstein's determined 
 efforts to undermine the best hope for legislative reform, the USA Freedom 
 Act, contributed to that bill's unfortunate watering-down to the extent 
 most major civil liberties groups withdrew their endorsement. Her 
 championing of a fake reform bill (The FISA Improvements Act) that 
 retroactively legalized bulk collection was a deceptive measure that 
 actually would have expanded NSA spying activity while claiming 
 otherwise.\n\nWith hundreds of thousands taking their online privacy and 
 safety matters into their own hands on Thursday, CA's senior senator is out 
 of step and out of touch with her constituents here in one of the country's 
 most tech-savvy states. Unconstitutional surveillance activities aren't 
 defensible. The erosion of the ability to engage in effective diplomacy 
 with allies such as Gemany due to anger about spying makes Americans less 
 safe and secure, at home and abroad. As the chair of the Senate 
 Intelligence Committee Feinstein is tasked with providing "vigilant 
 legislative oversight over the intelligence activities of the United States 
 to assure that such activities are in conformity with the Constitution and 
 laws of the United States. In this capacity,Senator Feinstein has failed 
 the country. Under her watch the NSA has shredded the Constitution and her 
 failure to act in the capacity as chair of the only committee tasked with 
 overseeing federal intelligence programs has enabled these constitutional 
 violations to continue. \n\nStatement from the Shame on Feinstein anchor 
 groups:\n\nOn June 5th, 2013 Edward Snowden began to reveal to the world 
 that the system of laws, traditions and institutions that make the United 
 States a vibrant democracy have been exploited by a surveillance state 
 beyond control.\n\nMembers of the Shame on Feinstein coalitions represent 
 core constituencies for Senator Feinstein. \n\nSenator Feinstein’s 
 leadership has allowed a climate of fear to fester among her constituents. 
 Almost 1/4th of our signatories chose to withhold their names from public 
 view.\n\nNothing we’ve seen in the last year suggests the Senator 
 Feinstein is capable of the needed reforms. She has defended the NSA 
 relentlessly as falsehood after falsehood has been revealed.\n\nThe USA 
 FREEDOM Act, once our best chance for legislative reform, has been gutted 
 in the House. Now is the time for Senator Feinstein to abandon her defense 
 of mass surveillance and embrace the principles of our 
 Constitution.\n\n														###\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/04/18756946.php
SUMMARY:Shame on Feinstein; Reset the Net!
LOCATION:1 Post Street (where Post, Montgomery and Market Streets converge) outside 
 Senator Finstein's office
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/06/04/18756946.php
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