The day we fought back was a tremendous success

From Demand Progress:

Tuesday was amazing. Working with scores of organizations, and thousands of sites, and hundreds of thousands of activists, we organized the largest online privacy protest ever.

Nearly 100,000 calls were placed to Congress on that day, melting the phone lines and making it clear that we will persist in the fight to end mass surveillance.

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On Tuesday we sought to make a dent, while laying a foundation for escalation over the months to come: It was a tremendous success.

We demonstrated that civil society organizations, hundreds of thousands of activists, and major corporations are willing to bring coordinated pressure to bear on lawmakers.

Just a few highlights:

•Scores of organizations from across the political spectrum banded together.
•Thousands of sites urged their visitors to take action.
•Google formally endorsed the USA FREEDOM Act, which would end bulk data collection.
•Twitter tweeted to nearly 30 million people in support.
•Dozens of lawmakers issued statements of support.
•NSA acolyte Senator Dianne Feinstein was on the run from her own constituents.

We will persist, we will escalate, and we will win.

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Onward.

-Demand Progress