WMATA Opens Bags

Tired of the Security Theater that WMATA has become? Apparently, according to Maryland group fighting the bag searches, the WMATA board will take up the issue thursday. Seems like its time to show the WMATA Board your love - and let them know how you feel about intrusive searches that provide, in fact, no increased or improved security. Here is the information from the Maryland group:

The WMATA Board of Directors will consider on Thursday morning whether or not to halt the random bag search program.

We're pulling out all the stops to convince them the program is unconstitutional, ineffective, inconvenient and an insult to Metro riders.

We need your help!

It is vital that each board member gets our message loud and clear. We have two ways to help you deliver your message:

Most effective way:

Each WMATA director's name below links to a lobbying sheet with contact and background information. Please take a minute to call or write directors from your state and tell them to end the random bag search program now. Then use the link provided to let us know what you've learned.

MD: Elizabeth Hewlett, Peter Benjamin, Kathy Porter
MD: please also contact federal directors Marcel Acosta and Mortimer Downey
DC: Tommy Wells, Thomas Downs, Michael Brown, Arthur Giancola
VA: Catherine Hudgins, Mary Hynes, Jeff McKay, William Euille

OR, Quickest way:

Click here to send a message to the entire WMATA Board of Directors at once.

Thank you,

Thomas, Sue, Kit, Martine, Karen, Shahid, Ann, Malachy, Gael, and Pat,

for the Montgomery County Civil Rights Coalition, and the DC Bill of Rights Coalition

Click here for more information about WMATA's bag search program

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