EFF airship
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EFF, Greenpeace, and the Tenth Amendment Center flew an airship over the NSA's Utah data center on Friday. Heralded as "the first-ever anti-surveillance air force," the 135-foot-long thermal airship carried activists from EFF and Greenpeace with the message: "NSA Illegal Spying Below."

"We woke up before dawn and watched the Utah sunrise while drifting 1,000 feet above the NSA data center. The center is massive, sprawling, and symbolizes everything that's wrong with the NSA's collect-it-all approach to surveillance," said Parker Higgins, the EFF activist who rode in the airship.

The flight marked the public unveiling of Stand Against Spying, an online scorecard that grades every member of Congress from A to F on the degree to which they are supporting--or blocking--meaningful surveillance reform. The website also has an open letter to President Obama, urging him to use his authority to end mass surveillance now, without waiting for Congress to act.

Make sure Congress and the president know that we're paying attention. We're asking you to visit StandAgainstSpying.org now, look up your elected representatives' grades, and tweet directly to members of Congress so we can pressure them to enact real reform - not cosmetic fixes.