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This week's show opened with our short feature on the upcoming NYCLU and SCOPE Forum on REAL ID
to be held on Tuesday, March 11 at St. John's Grace Episcopal Church Featuring speakers from the NYCLU, SCOPE and advocates from the GBLT Community. Find out if the damage to your privacy and civil liberties is worth the high unfunded cost to each and evey one of us.
For more information, call the New York Civil Liberties Union, Western Regional Office at 716-852-4033 or via email at aclubuffalo@gmail.com

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Our feature interview and report this week, comes to us from the ACLU of Illinois. Ed Yohnka is the Director of Communications for the ACLU of Illinois and gives us two reports this week on the rapidly approaching deadlines to stop the expansion of illegal wiretapping as sought by the Bush Administration. As we discussed on-air,
Here is how you can help:

Please make a toll-free call to 1-800-226-9021

and ask the operator for your representative. When you call, say something like this:

"I am a constituent calling about FISA. Please stand strong in the face of White House scare tactics and reject any spying bill with telecom immunity or warrantless spying."

The House could vote at any time. And there’s no guarantee that they will hold firm on their refusal to pass FISA legislation that defies the Constitution and overlooks telecom companies’ massive invasions of our privacy.

If we hold the line in the House, it will be for one reason: Because you and other ACLU activists across the country generated thousands and thousands of phone calls.

Every week that we prevent the House from passing legislation granting telecom immunity and excusing warrantless eavesdropping is a victory for the Constitution.

Please act now. Keep this dangerous legislation out of President Bush's hands.

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This week's music comes to us from Steve Roberts,
Moby featuring Public Enemy, and Neil Young
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This week's PSA's : FISA and "Your Rights" from the ACLU of Montana

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