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Thursday, October 5, 2006
Save the Internet : WIN
Just received a great email from MoveOn-dot-org with some real good news about the SAVE THE INTERNET campaign results. Nice! Of course it doesn’t mean the end of it all - as (very freely quoted here) LRH put it so nicely in words :
The Prize of Freedom : Constant alertness and the willingness to fight back.
And following is the story itself - a copy/paste for my own archives and for those days in the future that I mangled my brain and can no longer find the below message in my email archives:
Dear MoveOn member,
In the battle of organized money vs. organized people, regular people just scoreda huge victory.
Last Friday, after months of feeling the heat from constituents,’the Senateadjourned without passing the horrible bill that would permanently kill Net Neutrality.’Together,we dealt a blow to AT&T and Verizon’s attempt to control the Internet, and we’rewell’positioned to’push a strong’Internet freedom agenda’in 2007.’
But our job’s’not done.’Net Neutrality opponents’will try’tokill Net Neutrality in the’”lame duck” Congress—the period rightafter the 2006 elections when Congress is most unaccountable. We’must act nowto keep the pressure’up during the’election season, and one way is to registerthousands of new “Internet freedom voters.”
Can you register to vote—or get’at least’one’friendregistered to vote—as an “Internet freedom voter” today?
Here’s an easy-to-use voter registration’link:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2146&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=2
“Internet freedom voters” are people’who care about Internet freeomand’want’their voices heard in the political process. We will keep’tallyof “Internet freedom voters” and ensure politicians’and the mediahear about it.
With Congress adjourned, AT&T and Verizon’have already begun to taketheir campaign to the states. We need to keep the heat on politicians so they rememberafter Election Day that voters demand Net Neutrality—and nothing speaks louderthan new voters marching to the polls.
If you aren’t registered, please register. If you are registered, please thinkof at least one friend to’sign up’today. We’ve provided information aboutNet Neutrality below—including the Top Ten’Examples of’GrassrootsMobilization In The Net Neutrality Fight.
Thanks for all you do as we fight to save the Internet.
-Eli Pariser, Adam Green, Noah T. Winer and the MoveOn.org Civic Actionteam’
‘ Thursday, October 5th, 2006
P.S. Can you support this member-driven campaign today?As companies like AT&T and Verizon’spend millions lobbying Congress to gutInternet freedom, we’are winning this fight because of the power of’regularpeople. A donation of $10,’$20, or more’would go a long way. You can donatehere:
https://civic.moveon.org/donatec4/creditcard.html?id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=3
P.S. Here is more information about Net Neutrality:
Net Neutrality background document—for your friends:
http://civ.moveon.org/save_the_internet/background.html?id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=4
Find out where’your members of Congress stand:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2149&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=5
Net Neutrality petition to Congress:
http://civic.moveon.org/save_the_internet/?id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=6
TOP TEN EXAMPLES OF GRASSROOTS’MOBILIZATION IN THE NET NEUTRALITY FIGHT
What changed April’s 23-8 House committee vote against Net Neutrality intoJune’s 11-11 tie vote in a Senate committee? And’what eventually’led’to’agiant victory in September, as the Senate adjourned without passing’a horriblebill? It was millions of everyday people who learned that Internet freedom was underattack’by giant corporations and fought back by contacting Congress.
Top 10 Examples:
1)’ Over 750 organizations formed the SavetheInternet.comCoalition in April—including small businesses, Craig from Craigslist, consumergroups, nonprofits,’musicians, and political groups on the left and right.’
2)’ 1 million people signed a petitionto Congress and thousands called Congress, a contrast to the $1 million companieslike AT&T and Verizon gave to Senate Commerce Committee members .
3)’Grassroots groups from the’left and right‘(likeMoveOn and Christian Coalition) mobilized their members to call Congress in supportof Net Neutrality:
Joint Washington Times‘op-ed: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1884&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=7
Joint New York’Times ad: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1868&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=8
4)’Independent podcasters, bloggers, and’YouTube users‘releasedcool audio and video:
DoubleSpeakShow.com’s podcast on Net Neutrality—interviews with MoveOn& Craig from Craigslist:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2153&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=9Blogger makes techno re-mix of Sen. Ted Stevens'’”series of tubes”rant:’
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1954&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=10Regular guy in his backyard on YouTube:
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2147&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=11Tons of videos:
http://www.savetheinternet.com/=videos
5)’Jon Stewart humorously took on Senator Ted Stevensand told his viewers that eliminating Net Neutrality would create a “two-tieredhierarchy.” View it:
First Net Neutrality segment on The Daily Show, Wednesday, July 12, 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DClkE64nFDY
Second Net Neutrality segment on The Daily Show, Wednesday, July 19, 2006
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YedWtX9tKE
6)’Non-politicalgroups like college football teams have rallied people for Net Neutrality:
7)’Non-political video gamers have joined the fight:’
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1965&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=12
8) Over 20,000 Myspace users have joined the fight to preserveNet Neutrality 9) Artists and musicians like Moby and REM urged fans to callCongress, and some female singers formed “The Broadband”and wrote a Net Neutrality theme song. Moby video (featured on front page of MySpace and YouTube in May):
10)’August activism, including 25 Net Neutrality petition deliveriesto Senators across the nation made a huge media splash and got 6 new Senators offthe fence. Des Moines, Iowa ABC News -’ Petition Delivery to Sen. Tom Harkin, 8/30/06
Wilmington, Delaware WDEL 1150AM Video News—Petition Delivery to Sen.Tom Carper, 8/31/06 In August, Senators Schumer,Harkin, Jeffords,Dayton, Akaka‘,and Kennedy came off thefence and‘ announced their support forNet Neutrality—see the fulltally here.’ On October 2, Salon.com wrotea’great recap of this grassroots activism entitled, “The Telecom Slayers.”
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=1966&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=13
REM website:
http://www.remhq.com/flash/index.html
The Broadband’s “God Save The Internet”
http://www.savetheinternet.com/broadband.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R8kktL5tNc
Denver, Colorado CBS News—Petition Delivery to Sen. Ken Salazar, 8/30/06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO6G2YgR6IA
Burlington, Vermont CBS News—Petition Delivery to Sen. James Jeffords, 8/31/06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvl8XMFxLhs
Fayetteville, Arkansas ABC News—Petition Delivery to Sen. Blanche Lincoln,8/30/06
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2053&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=14
Albuquerque, New Mexico—Petition Delivery to Sen. Jeff Bingaman, 8/17/06
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO_xzki8fTc
http://wdel.com/video/?v=netneutrality.wmv
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=2148&id=9013-6954281-_DE00kxzBZTIXCaomHNkvQ&t=18
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