This video is a call to action released in support of the Stop Watching Us: Rally Against Mass Surveillance being held in Washington, DC, on Saturday, Oct. 26, the 12th anniversary of the Patriot Act. Formed in June 2013, the StopWatching.us coalition is comprised of more than 100 public advocacy organizations and companies from across the political spectrum demanding that Congress investigate the full extent of the NSA's spying programs.
A diverse cast of media, academic, political and legal figures and truth-speakers unite in the video to sound the alarm over unconstitutional government surveillance. The full list, in order of appearance, includes:
- Daniel Ellsberg, “Pentagon Papers” whistleblower
- Phil Donahue, television talk-show pioneer
- US Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-MI), ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee
- David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress
- Maggie Gyllenhaal, actor and activist
- Oliver Stone, director of The Untold History of the United States and Nixon
- John Cusack, actor and activist
- Wil Wheaton, actor and writer
- Molly Crabapple, artist and writer
- Jesselyn Radack, U.S. Department of Justice whistleblower and national security and human rights director at the Government Accountability Project
- J. Kirk Wiebe, NSA whistleblower
- Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed the telecommunications company’s collaboration with the NSA in collecting customer data
- Thomas Drake, NSA whistleblower
- Cindy Cohn, Legal Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Dan Choi, LGBTQ activist and Iraq War veteran
- Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School
by OccupyWallSt
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