{"id":3613,"date":"2015-05-20T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=3613"},"modified":"2015-05-20T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T16:58:55","slug":"thursday-emergency-sunset-vigil-in-boston-ma-to-sunset-the-patriot-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/20\/thursday-emergency-sunset-vigil-in-boston-ma-to-sunset-the-patriot-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday EMERGENCY Mass. Sunset Vigils to Sunset the PATRIOT Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WHAT:<\/strong> Mass vigil at sunset against mass surveillance &#8211; happening in 50 cities across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:<\/strong> Thursday, May 21st as the sun is setting (aka 7pm)<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boston &#8211; Gather outside Senator Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s office at 2400 JFK Federal Building, 15 New Sudbury Street, Boston, MA 02203.<\/li>\n<li>Springfield &#8211; <span class=\"fsl\">Gather outside Senator Ed Markey&#8217;s office at 1550 Main Street, 4th Floor Springfield, MA 01101.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>BRING:<\/strong> A cell phone, laptop, tablet, and candles with the protestsign.org already pre-loaded. Make a big sunset sign and write &#8220;Sunset the Patriot Act&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY WE NEED YOU:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the week when we have a chance to sunset the PATRIOT Act!<\/p>\n<p>The PATRIOT Act could end this week if Congress fails to reauthorize it by this Friday ahead of its June 1st expiration. So, on Thursday May 21st, people are organizing a mass vigil in 50 cities across the U.S. to demand their Senators let the Patriot Act expire.<\/p>\n<p>And we\u2019ve set it up so its super easy to get involved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gather as the sun is setting<\/li>\n<li>Load <a href=\"https:\/\/www.protestsign.org\/\">protestsign.org<\/a> on your phone, tablet or laptop<\/li>\n<li>Take a picture of your group with signs outside of Senator Warren or Markey&#8217;s office.<\/li>\n<li>Call your senator to tell them you&#8217;re there to encourage them to sunset the Patriot Act, just dial: 1 (920) END-4-215<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Post your pictures to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1606909036231632\/\">Sunset Vigil Boston Facebook page<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1621098418103853\/\">Sunset Vigil Springfield Facebook page<\/a> and on Twitter with the hash tags #sunsetpatriotact #sunsetvigil and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenWarren\">@SenWarren<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkeyMemo\">@MarkeyMemo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can also sign the online letter at <a href=\"http:\/\/sunsetthepatriotact.com\/\">http:\/\/sunsetthepatriotact.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This vigil is being organized by your friends at the Demand Progress, Restore the Fourth, CREDO, MoveOn.org, Free Press, Fight for the Future and the Massachusetts Pirate Party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT: Mass vigil at sunset against mass surveillance &#8211; happening in 50 cities across the U.S. WHEN: Thursday, May 21st as the sun&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/sunsetthepatriotact.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-Wh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3613\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}