【抗議デモ】国会前「19日行動」1万1千人=編集部

5 hours 26 minutes ago
 高市首相が訪米した19日、国会周辺や国会議員会館前には、国会を取り囲む形で1万1000人(主催者発表)の人々が沿道に結集。「イラン攻撃を許さない」「高市政権から平和憲法を守り生かそう」などと声をあげて大規模な抗議行動を展開した=写真=。 2015年9月19日の安全保障関連法(安保法制)強行採決以来、この日を忘れまいと毎月19日に取り組まれてきた「19日行動」はこの日、過去最大規模での展開となった。 参加した様々な団体や市民たちは、米トランプ政権とイスラエルのイランへの先制攻..
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【お知らせ】5・3有明憲法大集会へのお誘い どなたでも歓迎!

1 day 6 hours ago
 今年も5.3有明憲法集会(東京)がやってきます。毎年、JCJ会員・講読者有志で参加してきましたが今年も行きます。どなたでも歓迎。昨年は6万人の結集。集会後のデモ行進には参加しないで、新橋辺りに移動しての交流会も例年パターンです。みなさん薫風陽光の下、平和憲法の危機の下、改憲・戦争の出来る国化に抗議の意志を示しましょう!■主催:平和といのちと人権を!5.3憲法集会実行委員会■共催:戦争をさせない・9条壊すな!総がかり行動実行委員会、9条改憲NO!全国市民アクション、戦争をさせ..
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We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702

1 day 8 hours ago

We go through this every couple of years: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which of Americans’ communications with foreign persons overseas is up for renewal. As always, Congress can reauthorize it with or without changes, or just let it expire. We know, we know, it’s a pain to have to do this every few years–but it gives us a chance to lift the hood of this behemoth tool of government surveillance and tinker with how it works. That’s why it’s so important right now to urge your Member of Congress not to pass any bill that reauthorizes Section 702 without substantial reforms.   

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TELL congress: 702 Needs Reform

Section 702 is rife with problems, loopholes, and compliance issues that need fixing. The National Security Agency (NSA) collects full conversations being conducted by surveillance targets overseas and stores them, allowing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to operate in a “finders keepers” mode of surveillance—they reason that it's already collected, so why can’t they look at those conversations? There, the FBI can query and even read the U.S. side of that communication without a warrant. The problem is, people who have been spied on by this program won’t even know and have very few ways of finding out. EFF and other civil liberties advocates have been trying for years to know when data collected through Section 702 is used as evidence against them.  

There’s simply no excuse for any Member of Congress to support a "clean" reauthorization of Section 702. Anyone who votes to do so does not take your privacy seriously. Full stop.  

The intelligence community and its defenders in Congress, as always, seem more interested in defending their rights to read your private communications than in protecting your right to privacy. It’s not really a compromise between safety and privacy if it's always your privacy that gets sacrificed. Now, we’re drawing a line in the sand: Congress cannot pass a clean extension.  

Use this EFF tool to write to your Member of Congress and tell them not to pass a clean reauthorization of Section 702.  

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TELL congress: 702 Needs Reform

Matthew Guariglia