Stop Watching Us was a protest effort against global surveillance that culminated in rallies on October 26, 2013.
"Stop Watching US" rally in Washington DC, October 26, 2013
The Day We Fight Back was a one-day global protest against mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA),
the UK GCHQ, and the other Five Eyes partners involved in global surveillance. The "digital protest" took place on February 11, 2014 with more than 6,000 participating websites, which primarily took the form of webpage banner-advertisements that read, "Dear Internet, we're sick of complaining about the NSA. We want new laws that curtail online surveillance. Today we fight back." Organizers hoped lawmakers would be made aware "that there's going to be ongoing public pressure until these reforms are instituted."
The banner of The Day We Fight Back
Aaron Swartz
"Your world delivered ... to the NSA. On AT&T building in SF where whistleblower Mark Klein saw the NSA spying room." Tweeted by Kurt Opsohl, attorney with the EFF; from "The Day We Fight Back" protest in San Francisco, February 11, 2014
February 11, 2014