On Edit: I also asked both Legislatures from my District to sponsor the Resolution....

Does anyone have a link to the Hawaii resolution? A member of the Tennessee State House requested a copy.

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Crockett (05-27-2003 01:34 p.m.):
Does anyone have a link to the Alaska development? I would love the details.

Does anyone have a link to the Hawaii resolution? A member of the Tennessee State House requested a copy.

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Alaska Resolution

< http://www.bordc-fairbanks.org/alaska.aspx >

Here is another good site for communities which have repealed the Patriot Act

< Repeal the PATRIOT Act
& Anti-War Resolutions:
Local Communities Mount Campaigns

< http://icujp.org/repeal.shtml >

The State Of Hiawii has already passed such a Resolution.

< http://www.hawaii.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/2164.php >

The Bill of Rights Defense Committee

< http://www.bordc.org/ >

On May 28, 2003, Vermont's Senate approved a resolution (JRH 9) critical of the USA PATRIOT Act by a unanimous rollcall vote (29-0). The resolution had been approved the previous week by Vermont's Republican controlled House by a vote of 101-23. We will post the resolution when we receive it.

Great news from Vermont.

Union locals and civic organizations should do the same.

I am going to urge my local Democratic Party in Lincoln County, Tennessee to pass such a resolution.

3 States (Alaska, Hawaii and Vermont) and 118 cities, towns and counties have passed repeal resolutions to date.

Cities endorsing repeal include: Detroit (Michigan), Tucson (Arizona), Greensboro (North Carolina), Providence (Rhode Island), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Baltimore (Maryland), Minneapolis (Minnesota), Eugene (Oregon), San Francisco (California), Oakland (California), Denver (Colorado) and Seattle (Washington).

Counties include Broward County (Florida) and Blount County (Tennessee) just to mention a couple.

This is a large and rapidly growing grassroots movement that is sweeping the nation. A more complete list is available at http://www.bordc.org/Chronology.pdf and you can register your local efforts with them as well.

The column is available on our articles page at this site and has been published in Tennessee's largest weekly newspaper North Shelby Times in Memphis.

Our column on the State, County and City movement to repeal the US Patriot Act was sent to every newspaper in Idaho, Maryland and Tennessee. It went to all the dailies in South Carolina, Washington and Wyoming. It went to most Mississippi and Wisconsin dailies. We hit about half the Ohio weeklies. Most Delaware newspapers and all the newspapers that always run our columns nationally have the column. We also salted a few newspapers in almost every state. The black press was hit fairly strongly in much of the nation. We encourage you all to contact your local newspapers and ask them to run this column. We can email it, fax it or they can pull the text from the article section of this site. They are welcome to run it as an "Op-Ed" or Letter to the Editor. Feel free to borrow content for your own Letters to the Editor. Please refer to this thread on our message board as a place for updates.

Six more local resolutions just passed bringing the count up to 124. The counties were Contra Costa County, California (with just under 1 million population), Jefferson County, Washington and San Juan County, Washington. The cities were Skagway(Alaska), Palo Alto (California) and Arlington (Massachusetts).