Patriot Days of Action
A National Week of Action: July 2-8, 2005
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Days of Action Overview Objectives Menu of Event Suggestions Talking Points |
On this page:
General flyer template
Fliers to promote the Days of
Action
Fliers on timely issues
Posters
Press materials
Sample Op-eds
Book of Resolutions
- Fill in your own information: Patriot Days of Action, July 2-8 (Word)
Fliers to promote the Days of Action
- Hand out fliers in front of your local bookstore(s) or library: Bookseller – or Spy? The Patriot Act and the Surveillance of Books (Word), Source: Chicagoland Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights
- Promote your Patriot Days of Action events at other community events: Got Rights? Maybe less than you think (Word), Source: Chicagoland Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights
- Sunset provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act: Let the Sun Set on the PATRIOT Act (PDF), Source: New York City Bill of Rights Defense Campaign
- Abuse of the PATRIOT Act: Abuses and Misuses of the PATRIOT Act (PDF), Source: New York City Bill of Rights Defense Campaign
- General: Restoring Checks and Balances (PDF), Source: New York City Bill of Rights Defense Campaign
- Poster Series - The USA PATRIOT Act: What's it do
for you?, Source: Chicagoland
Coalition for Civil Liberties and Rights
- Spying on books you read (PDF)
- Locking up immigrants (PDF)
- Accessing business records (PDF)
- Looking at medical and school records (PDF)
- Classifying activists as terrorists (PDF)
- Searching your home (PDF)
BORDC also has sample fliers and other literature relative to the USA PATRIOT Act, the 4th of July, and other civil liberties issues. Please browse these items and sample any that you would like to hand out or post at your National Week of Action events.
Tips:
- Put your organization's name and email address or phone number on all your literature so people can contact you.
- Wherever possible, have a sign-up sheet on a clipboard for people to sign up and join your group.
- If you have literature that you think belongs on this page, or you have found something on a web site to which we can link, please send us an email message.
- Sample press release: Communities to Review USA PATRIOT Act Around Independence Day Feel free to adapt it to your efforts and send it to your local media!
- BORDC's Tips and Tools for Holding a News Conference
- June 24, 2005, Clint B. Walker, The Morning Call (PA), Roll back the abuses of USA Patriot Act
- June 22, 2005, O’Neill D. Louchard & Pat Perrault, Port Townsend and Jefferson County Leader (WA), County residents should fight for constitutional rights
- June 11, 2005, Brent Mesic, Chicago Tribune, Potential for abuse
- Resolutions and Ordinances Critical of the USA PATRIOT Act and Other Laws and Policies that Diminish Civil Liberties (469 pp.):
Available as a single file (PDF, 2.6 MB) or
three
smaller files (PDF, 0.9 MB each)
Part
1
Part 2
Part
3
Contact the BORDC if you would prefer to receive a copy of this book
in the mail: jessie@bordc.org,
413-582-0110. Allow at least two business days for delivery.