11. Help Stop Backdoor Zoning Rules Changes (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
UPDATE 1/7/2008: Councilwoman Dickens form e-mail response
(see below) is that, at her request, the City Planning Commission has
extended the official comment period on these amendments to 2/6/2008,
the day after the next CB7 hearing. ...
12. Help a Vet This Holiday Season (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
(A message from DFNYC member Michael Minn)
While most progressives have serious questions about the motivitions behind
and the execution of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, all of us honor the
sacrifice made by those servicepersons who hav...
13. Help Protect the Right to a Trial by Jury (Issues & Projects/Issues & Action)
(a message from DFNYC members Dana Northcraft and Michael Minn)
Update 4/1/08: Although hearings were held earlier in the year and the
legislation did receive some publicity, the bills do not seem to be getting
any momentum, probably...
14. Hold Phone Companies Accountable for Illegal Wiretapping (Issues & Projects/Old Action Items)
Update 11/20/2007:
The fight over the FISA bill continues, mainly over whether to grant phone companies immunity for having violated the privacy of millions of customers. The House passed a bill without immunity. In the Senate, two committees...
16. Help Stop Telecom Immunity (Issues & Projects/Old Action Items)
For the past five years, AT&T, Verizon, and other major telecommunications companies have apparently
violated long-standing American law by giving the Bush administration access to customer data
and communications without a search warrant. Cus...
17. Homeland Security - Sign Away Privacy or Quit Your Job (DFNYC Community/Community Conversations)
Homeland Security gives New Yorkers the "choice" to turn over personal information. A DFNYCer in Brooklyn has been blogging about his wife's involvement in a developing and VERY important story pitting NASA scientists against Homela...
