2005-02-26 10:22![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
stormiestl
stormiestlDear Media Reformer:
Community Internet may be the most important media policy fight of the decade. Local communities across the country -- looking to offer affordable, universal access to high-speed broadband services -- are squaring off against big cable and telephone companies determined to outlaw the competition. In a few years, all communications -- TV, radio, Internet and telephone -- will come through broadband Internet connections. If Big Media has its way, access will cost more than $100 a month, and corporations -- not communities -- will determine what information is available and what's not. The fight for tomorrow's technology is being waged today. Here's what you can do:
1. Watch Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott on tonight's broadcast of NOW, the PBS news magazine. (Click here to check your local listings)
Then visit Free Press' new Community Internet site http://www.freepress.net/communityinternet to learn more.
2. A rapid response from vocal citizens is the only way to stop the cable and telephone companies when they try to sneak in bad legislation under the radar. Help us win the next battle by getting 10 people to sign up now as Free Press e-activists http://www.freepress.net/tellafriend.php
for future actions. It's free and takes only a few seconds.
3. Meet and strategize with other activists working to defend Community Internet at the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis on May 13-15. You can register for the conference online http://www.freepress.net/conference/=registration> or by calling (866) 462-2838. We need you to be there to build this important campaign. With your help, we can stop Big Media -- and win the struggle for the future of communications in America. >
Onward,
Josh Silver
Executive Director Free Press
Community Internet may be the most important media policy fight of the decade. Local communities across the country -- looking to offer affordable, universal access to high-speed broadband services -- are squaring off against big cable and telephone companies determined to outlaw the competition. In a few years, all communications -- TV, radio, Internet and telephone -- will come through broadband Internet connections. If Big Media has its way, access will cost more than $100 a month, and corporations -- not communities -- will determine what information is available and what's not. The fight for tomorrow's technology is being waged today. Here's what you can do:
1. Watch Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott on tonight's broadcast of NOW, the PBS news magazine. (Click here to check your local listings)
Then visit Free Press' new Community Internet site http://www.freepress.net/communityinternet to learn more.
2. A rapid response from vocal citizens is the only way to stop the cable and telephone companies when they try to sneak in bad legislation under the radar. Help us win the next battle by getting 10 people to sign up now as Free Press e-activists http://www.freepress.net/tellafriend.php
for future actions. It's free and takes only a few seconds.
3. Meet and strategize with other activists working to defend Community Internet at the National Conference for Media Reform in St. Louis on May 13-15. You can register for the conference online http://www.freepress.net/conference/=registration> or by calling (866) 462-2838. We need you to be there to build this important campaign. With your help, we can stop Big Media -- and win the struggle for the future of communications in America. >
Onward,
Josh Silver
Executive Director Free Press
