An Anonymous Patron points us to this story in the Lowell [Mass.] Sun:
In the week since a petition to repeal controversial portions of the USA Patriot Act was placed near bookstore cash registers, an estimated 1,000 Massachusetts residents have added their signatures.
The local sign-in sheets are among the thousands distributed nationwide to independent bookstores and libraries by the Campaign for Reader Privacy. The goal is to collect 1 million signatures in support of overturning section 215.
A bill co-sponsored by U.S. Reps. Marty Meehan, a Lowell Democrat, and John Olver, an Amherst Democrat, aims to strike the controversial provision from the law. The bill has the support of 144 House members, both Republicans and Democrats, and is currently before a Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism.
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