Via Computer World:
A crowd of about 5,000 people, chanting “stop spying, stop lying” and “hey, ho, mass surveillance has got to go,” marched through Washington, D.C., Saturday to protest the U.S. National Security Agency’s mass surveillance programs unveiled in press reports this year.
Protesters, from a seemingly wide range of political beliefs, called on the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama to end mass data collection and surveillance by the NSA. […]
Another popular sticker, from antiwar group Code Pink, featured lipstick marks and the message, “Make out, not war.”
Rally attendees said it was important for them to be at the event, although some were unsure if it would make a difference.
Showing up at the rally was a way of “doing something” instead of just complaining about the NSA, said Lauren Schreiber, community outreach and event coordinator at the Council on American Islamic Relations in Washington, D.C.
The Muslim community in the U.S. has long been the target of surveillance, she noted. “I feel like if the government doesn’t respect the very basic right of privacy, then all of our other rights are going to be trampled,” she said.