Should we hold our breath?

Posted by Mary Mancini on May 24, 2006 under Uncategorized |

From Democracy Now!

On Wednesday, May 24th, thousands of people in cities across the country will protest the Telephone Companies AT&T, Bell South and Verizon, expressing outrage at the tactics of the major telephone companies (AT&T, Bell South, Verizon and Qwest) to pass National Video Franchising legislation in Congress. The Telcos are spending one million dollars a week to buy the votes of members of Congress for their legislation (House Bill 5252 and Senate Bill 2686), and on advertising to influence public opinion, using astroturf groups to distort the issues. The proposed legislation will curb local control over video franchises, negatively impact thousands of local Public, Educational and Governmental Access channels, allow red-lining in low-income and rural communities and jeopardize the openness of the internet by removing net neutrality provisions designed to promote competition.

Take action wherever you are.

I’ll be on the fruitless search tonight for national TV coverage of this issue and today’s events.

UPDATE: The only coverage.