I got this from them today so I thought I'd share it. They seem a good company that supports liberal causes (meaning, a percentage of your bill goes to those causes). Might be a good idea to switch to them (I have no affiliation with them and would like suggestions for other potential companies to switch to)...
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WORKING ASSETS ISSUES UPDATE: May 12, 2006
You are receiving this newsletter because you are a Working Assets
customer.
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** SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT **
A Message From Working Assets' President
In light of new revelations about the big telecommunications carriers'
handing over domestic calling records to the National Security Agency,
I am writing to let you know where Working Assets stands on the NSA's
increasingly alarming activities.
Working Assets believes that the warrantless monitoring of phone
conversations ordered by the Bush administration is illegal and
unacceptable. As reported yesterday in USA Today (linked below), AT&T,
Bell South and Verizon sold customer call records to the NSA. We also
unequivocally oppose the disclosure of domestic calling records to the
NSA by our nation's telecommunications providers. Working Assets would
never, under any circumstances, give (let alone sell) records to the
Bush administration without a warrant or court order.
In fact, as Working Assets' President, I recently signed on to an
amicus brief supporting the ACLU's law suit against the National
Security Agency. We are the only telephone company participating in
this lawsuit.
(Details:
http://values.workingassets.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/em5o0E7cHd0TJ70BGOs0Eh .)
Working Assets has never been approached by any government agency
seeking our help in illegally accessing the content of conversations
by our customers, and we would refuse any such request. We are
actively engaged in opposing warrantless monitoring, in pushing for
full disclosure by the government regarding the scope of the
monitoring, and in protecting citizens from intrusive and illegal
exercises of governmental power. Additionally, we are fighting Bush's
nomination of General Michael V. Hayden, the architect of the NSA's
illegal wiretapping program, to head the CIA.
(Click here to take action:
http://values.workingassets.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/em5o0E7cHd0TJ70BGOt0Ei .)
If you are a member of AT&T (including Cingular and SBC), Bell South
or Verizon, your telecom company willingly sold the private telephone
records of American citizens to the Bush administration's illegal
domestic spying operation. Please contact your provider now, and let
them know that this is simply unacceptable.
- Contact AT&T:
http://www.consumer.att.com/contact?source=body - Contact Verizon:
http://www22.verizon.com/CustomerSupport/ContactUs/ - Contact BellSouth:
http://www.bellsouth.com/contactus/index.htmlYou can also find out more about Working Assets Wireless and Working
Assets Long Distance at
http://www.workingassets.com.You may also be interested in a new book we are publishing, entitled
How Would A Patriot Act?, a compelling analysis of how the NSA's
wiretapping fits into a larger scheme by the Bush Administration to
violate Constitutional restrictions on executive authority in an
unprecedented manner. Click here to find out more about the book:
http://values.workingassets.com/cgi-bin7/DM/y/em5o0E7cHd0TJ70BGOu0EjAs a telecommunications company, it is our special privilege to
facilitate communications among our fellow citizens, to enable
conversations on matters personal, commercial, social and political.
It is therefore our special obligation to oppose warrantless
interference into those communications, whatever the government's
justification may be. We will keep you posted on new developments as
they arise.
Thank you for your ongoing support.
Michael Kieschnick, President
Working Assets
P.S. -- Please use our ActForChange site to tell your Representative in
Congress you want some answers -- under oath -- about the telecom
companies' cooperation with the NSA's illegal domestic wiretapping
program. Click here:
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=20797&afccode=n55txt-------
USA Today -- NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm-------
PLEASE SEND QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TO:
nsascandal@workingassets.com