18.48, Tuesday 11 Jun 2002

Listen up, this is the important bit. You'll have read all over the place about the watering down of civil liberties in the UK, most recently that the laws to allow an enormous number of organisations (including the Post Office and the Food Standards Agency) access to your browsing and email bits are going to be rubber-stamped in a few days time.

What the articles generally haven't said is where to get authoritative information, how to explain what's happening in easy language, and what to do about it. Stand does all three. Yes, it's important that you understand the issues and do something about it. But more important is that the word gets out and that url gets into the hands of journalists and opinion-formers.