David Segal is executive director of, and Sam Adler-Bell a campaigner for, Demand Progress. Segal is a longstanding labor activist, and labor-backed city councilman, state representative and candidate for congress in Rhode Island. Follow Demand Progress on Twitter at @demandprogress and Sam at @samadlerbell.
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Why NSA Surveillance Should Alarm Labor
If unions are not speaking out against PRISM, it is because they have short memories.
Sam Adler-Bell and David Segal