The Blue Ribbon campaign is really catching on and is beginning to raise the interest in issues of online censorship at the local, national and international levels. Here are some ways people have suggested they might help educate the world about the natural extension of human rights into cyberspace. EFF does not necessarily endorse one method of activism over another, but we do encourage you to Get Involved, both online and off.

WARNING: Please remember that civil disobedience actions may be at least nominally illegal, and can possibly result in arrest and prosecution. Please think carefully, and look before you leap.

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING TO OPPOSE ONLINE CENSORSHIP Join EFF!
Online Activism and...	...Terrestrial Activism
Adding Blue Ribbon Graphics to your web pages	Wearing a Blue Ribbon lapel pin, available from StopCensorship.com
Using MagNetiX's "Let's Make Some Noise" letter writing campaign. Finds your representatives in the House and Senate and generates a print-ready letter for you.	Participating in the RESCHEDULED: tentatively Sept. 28-29, 1996. endorsed by EFF, VTW, EPIC, etc. NOTE: This event is in serious need of funding. If you are a willing corporate or individual donor, please contact the organizers ASAP!
Adding a Blue Ribbon to the signature file of your e-mail. Click below to find out how: add a uuencoded binary perl code for ASCII ribbon four line ASCII version (more "polite" than above longer versions)	Participating in the in Australia, May 27, 1996. endorsed by Electronic Frontiers Australia
24 Hours of Democracy The Project Continues ...	Displaying Blue Ribbon logo on hats, buttons, mugs and mousepads
Supporting Brett Wynkoop and James Vichench, two candidates for the U.S. presdidency who are running on the single issue of opposing the CDA	Participating in on-going Blue Ribbon campaign at NYU sponsored by Computer Advocacy@NYU
Using Global Image's eXonizer! to sample censorship and send e-mails of support and/or criticism.	Supporting a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution calling for extension of First Amendment rights to cyberspace
Joining the Comstock Rebellion, a group dedicated to fighting the CDA's restrictions on certain abortion information	Wearing specially designed T-shirts in three themes Free Speech! , "Hands Off the Net!"and Blue Ribbon
Putting a Biblical reference to abortion in the .sig file of your e-mail ...	...and demanding to be arrested for it. [NOTE: EFF notes that it's *possible* to do this; we do not necessarily advocate it.]
Adding your voice to a global petition now forming around EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" Results will be sent to world leaders everywhere as another protest action.	Sponsoring a Cyber Rights forum at your local college, university, high school, or public library
Sending e-mail to the president, congressional representatives, and the press	Mailing a thoughtful, typed letter to your federal representatives
Taking part in online Gandhian Resistance	Inviting legislators to an Internet training session at a local high school or college and showing them what the Internet has to offer
Agreeing to abide by the Bill of Electronic Rights and Ethics	VOTING!
Avoiding the CDA through technological means such as Rover, Offshore servers, and Decense	Tying a Blue Ribbon to a tree in your yard or the balcony or doorknob of your apartment
Join alt-showbiz.gossip to find out just how expensive free speech really is.	If you are a student, pinning a Blue Ribbon to your backpack
	At precinct caucuses during the US presidential election season, proposing a resolution that the party platform include a plank in opposition to the CDA
Online and offline, flying the Cyberspace Flag

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PREVIOUS EFFORTS TO OPPOSE ONLINE CENSORSHIP
Online Activism and...	...Terrestrial Activism
More than 1,500 web pages went black during the 48 hours following the signing of the Telecommunications Act on Feb. 8, 1996	Pictures & audio from the Feb. 10, 1996, Internet free speech rally in Washington, D.C.
InfiNet's "Cool Site of the Day" designed a special Valentine's Day card to Sen. Exon	Student's at the University of Miami held a Funeral for the First Amendment
February 22, 1996	NYU students distribued blue ribbons on campus, on Friday, March 1, from 2PM to 4PM at 251 Mercer St Rm 305 (corner of Mercer and W4th St)
Thousands of Net users made their opinions on Net censorship heard on the EFF/VoteLink poll through Feb. 30, 1996 (Netscape-only version)	March 14, 1996, was the day-long National Silence Protest (especially at law schools)
On Feb. 26 & 29, 1996, mass e-mail protests to the U.S. President took place. Thousands decried his willingness to strip us of our free speech rights, and included a copy of the Bill of Rights. The address is: president@whitehouse.gov REMEMBER: Be rational, don't swear and flame!	The Net Speech Forum at the U. of Penn., March 27
Thousands of U.S. citizens legally added their names as a plaintiff in the Citizens' Internet Empowerment Coalition's suit against the CDA
Both online and off, on Dec. 12, 1995, more than 20,000 citizens flooded key members of Congress with phone calls, faxes, and email messages urging them to oppose legislation which would prohibit the transmission of "indecent" material online.

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