Ed Viera has a very fine site devoted to the Committees of Safety model.
Committees of Safety Committees of Safety is a non-partisan, grass-roots advocacy organization active throughout
the 50 United States. Its purpose is to exercise the freedoms of speech, association, and petition
guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, in order to educate
Americans about, and mobilize them for political action around, the fundamental principles of liberty
and self-government set out in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of
Rights.
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