Save public access cable TV; email by FEB 13

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DEADLINE FOR THIS ACTION IS THE END OF THE DAY, Mon Feb 13, 2006:

File a comment with the FCC

 

Cable TV and the major telecom companies, while competing for your business, are

united in

trying to do away with local public access television and the right of cities

and towns to

negotiate fair deals with these companies. These multi-year deals, called

franchises, are the

basis of the PEG system - the Public, Educational and Government channels that

these

cable/telecom companies must provide to cities where they do business.

 

Companies like Verizon, AT & T (formerly SBC Global), Comcast and Time Warner hope

to hike their

profits while at the same time doing away with any public interest or pubic

access obligations

to the cities and towns where the operate.

 

Choose a link below and follow the simple instructions -

 

the deadline for comments is end of day Monday February 13!

 

An important FCC proceeding is underway that could well impact the future for

community access

media.

 

Please take a few moments now and make public comments - and ask every supporter

you know to

please join our cause.

 

Keep Community Media Local!

 

For cable access organizations, producers and access supporters there are three

excellent sites

available to choose from:

 

Access organizations = http://www.alliancecm.org

 

Access producers & friends = http://mnn.org/saveaccess/nprmhowto.html

 

General public & other allies =

http://www.freepress.net/fcc/comment.php?d=05-311

 

 

And for inspiration, here's word from Jeff Chester at Center for Digital

Democracy standing up

and speaking out!

 

http://www.democraticmedia.org/news/washingtonwatch/FCCfiling.html

 

 

" When the power of love becomes stronger than the love of power, we will have

peace. "

Jimi Hendrix

 

http://www.lightmovie.com/thelight/TheLight.html