Urgent Action Alert

From the anti-trafficking folks:

Action Alert: Call your Senator about David Ogden

President Obama has nominated David Ogden to be the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice, the #2 spot. According to the Anti-Porn Activist Network (APAN), Ogden has represented the porn industry's interests multiple times. Some examples:

• David Ogden argued on behalf of Playboy, Penthouse and the ACLU in obscenity and pornography cases.
• David Ogden opposed the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which includes a provision requiring Internet filters in federally funded libraries.
• David Ogden opposed the Child Protection and Obscenity Enforcement Act (CPOEA), which requires verification that models in pornographic films be certified over age 18 (he argued that keeping records of porn models' ages would “burden too heavily and infringe too deeply on the right to produce First Amendment-protected material.”)
• David Ogden pushed for taxpayer funding to publish Playboy in Braille.It is critical that you call a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is scheduled to vote on the nomination on February 26th, and tell them you oppose this nomination.Below are listed the committee members. You can call them all, but at the very least call the one closest to your home state. If you want to follow up with an email that's fine, but Senators prefer the personal touch of a phone call.

Cardin D-Maryland (202) 224-4524; Coburn R-Oklahoma (202) 224-5754; Cornyn R-Texas (202) 224-2934; Durbin D-Illinois (202) 224-2152; Feingold D-Wisconsin (202) 224-5323; Feinstein D-California (202) 224-3841; Graham R-South Carolina (202) 224-5972; Grassley R-Iowa (202) 224-3744; Hatch R-Utah (202) 224-5251; Kaufman D-Delaware (202) 224-5042; Klobuchar D-Minnesota (202) 224-3244; Kohl D-Wisconsin (202) 224-5653; Kyl R-Arizona (202) 224-4521; Leahy Chairman, D-Vermont (202) 224-4242; Schumer D-New York (202) 224-6542; Sessions R-Alabama (202) 224-4124; Specter, R-Pennsylvania (202) 224-4254; Whitehouse D-Rhode Island (202) 224-2921; Wyden D-Oregon (202) 224-5244.

APAN: http://antipornactivist.com/

THANK YOU FOR THE EFFORT TO PREVENT FURTHER HARM IN OUR SOCIETY DUE TO PORN, WHICH FEEDS HUMAN TRAFFICKING.