FISA: Use Free Media

Free media is the term PR people use for when publicity comes through channels other than paid advertising.
Letters to newspapers is a quite effective way of getting your views before thousands of people and, believe it or not, letters to editor columns are one of the most highly read sections of a newspaper.
Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. John Conyers, chairmen of the intelligence committees in each Congressional body are asking people to write letters about FISA to raise public awareness of the issue now in conference between the two bodies.
The main sticking point is the ongoing battle to resist the provision that would grant immunity from prosecution for telecom companies that cooperated with the administration's admitted illegal surveillance of Americans following 9/11.
To be fair, the administration doesn't admit the illegal part of it. As far as they're concerned, under their unitary executive theory, anything a president does is legal by definition. Nixon thought the same thing, as you might recall. Right up until he resigned.
It should also be noted that the former CEO of QWest, my phone company, is appealing his conviction on insider trading charges and in court documents filed with that appeal, it turns out that the administration actually began its spying in February 2001, right after Bush took office.
Anyway, Leahy and Conyers have set up a handy little online tool to help you write to your newspaper, give the relevant facts and opinion and ship it all off online.
They wouldn't be asking if they didn't believe it would be effective.