Last week, SSDP joined 18 other plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against the NSA to seeking to stop its surveillance of telephone and Internet communications of customers of Verizon. You can read about the lawsuit here, and read the complaint filed against the government here. SSDP joined this lawsuit because this kind of surveillance directly harms our ability to build a movement to fix American drug policy. If you have ever tabled for SSDP on your campus trying to recruit concerned students to work with your chapter, you have almost certainly had the experience of a student saying, “Yes, I agree with what you are doing, but I don’t want my name on any list that the government can get about people who want to change drug policy.”