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The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Stop the Spying campaign asks for people all over the U.S. to send photos and videos of their opposition to the telecom immunity bill. Here's mine: 
With Congress back in session this week and the Presidential season in full swing, the fight to prevent the Bush administration from granting immuniy to the telecoms for illegal spying is heating up once again. Activists and bloggers alike are keeping the heat on. -DeepLinks blog, Cindy Cohn
What does this bill mean? What are we fighting here?
For at least six years, President Bush has authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to conduct dragnet surveillance on our domestic telecommunications networks, vacuuming up the private communications of millions of ordinary Americans with no warrants or other meaningful oversight. (Stopthespying.org)
In Salon, Glenn Greenwald interviews Cindy Cohn, who is the lead counsel in the EFF's litigation against AT&T.
The Archcrone of The Crone Speaks says:
Now, call me naive, but consumer protection should be first and foremost for all companies. That means, also protecting the consumer against government intrusion, unless there is a warrant. The fact of the matter is, this administration could have used warrants and NSL’s to obtain this information, and they chose not to. Therefore, I find that telecoms violated consumer privacy laws, when handing over that information to the government.
- Telecoms Should Not Be Given Immunity, Archcrone
And Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake reports on John Edwards' take on the legislation:
"It's time for Senate Democrats to show a little backbone and stand up to George W. Bush and the corporate lobbyists. They should do everything in their power -- including joining Senator Dodd's efforts to filibuster this legislation -- to stop retroactive immunity. The Constitution should not be for sale at any price." John Edwards, quoted on Firedoglake
This morning I uploaded my photo of protest to Flickr and emailed it to photo@stopthespying.org. Contributions are being added here as well: http://flickr.com/photos/stopthespying. This message is my favorite so far: "In my profession, we would never ask to be let off the hook for violating the privacy rights of our customers. But what do I know? I'm just a librarian."
I'd love to see how BlogHers will get creative with this one with their photos and videos!
