On the upcoming July fourth holiday, concerned citizens and rights advocates will take to the streets in cities across the United States in an effort to refocus the national debate away from the whistleblower scandal on to revelations that the US government is ‘blatantly violating’ the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, and thus Americans’ right to privacy.

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution:

The rallies, organized by the independent grassroots coalition “,” are in response to information—recently leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and revealed through a series of Guardian articles—that the National Security Administration is conducting a covert and widespread surveillance campaign tapping and collecting individuals’ phone and electronic mail records.

Currently over fifty actions are planned for cities across the country.

“These demonstrations seek to demand an end to the unconstitutional surveillance methods employed by the U.S. government and to ensure that all future government surveillance is constitutional, limited, and clearly defined,” the group writes on their fundraising site.

As much of the coverage of the NSA spying scandal has focused on the whistleblower himself, “Restore the Fourth” hopes to refocus the debate on the government’s gross violation of Americans’ constitutional rights.

“No matter how we feel about Edward Snowden, all of us have to face the fact that our government has been actively spying on us without probable cause. Remaining silent about this blatant violation of the Bill of Rights is no longer an option, regardless of your opinion of the man himself, or the other issues that have divided us,” campaigner Robert Heldreth writes on the group’s blog.