Wednesday, March 17, 2004
On the easel now: A portrait of Good Dog Odin, who died in December. His adopted sister dog Beanz followed him in January. We miss them so!
Wednesday, March 3, 2004
Stand up for reader privacy. Booksellers, publishers, librarians and writers have joined together to gather one million signatures in support of legislation to revoke the FBI’s authority — under section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act — to conduct secret searches of bookstores and library records. Under the law — hastily passed in the fear tsunami that followed the 9/11 tragedy — “the FBI may request the records secretly; it is not required to prove that there is ‘probable cause’ to believe the person whose records are being sought has committed a crime; and the bookseller or librarian who receives an order is prohibited from revealing it to anyone except those whose help is needed to produce the records,” according to the Campaign for Reader Privacy. Sign the petition, learn more and contact your congress members at readerprivacy.com.
Be informed: Read the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Analysis of The Provisions of the USA PATRIOT ACT That Relate to Online Activities.