Dear MAC Colleagues, I thought you might be interested in information
about the campaign to provide millions of Americans with high-speed
Internet access. You know people of color are disproportionately
represented on the disadvantaged side of the digital divide. See the
information regarding the Free Press vs. NAB controversy.
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From: Timothy Karr, FreePress.net [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:11 AM
To: E. K. Daufin
Subject: They're Ba-ack!
Free Press Action Alert
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Dear Dr. E-K.,
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Tell the FCC to Stand Up to Scare Tactics and Open White Spaces for
Everyone.
Sign Our Halloween
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"They're Ba-ack..."
This Halloween, the powerful lobbyists at the National Association of
Broadcasters (NAB) are trying to scare Washington with horror stories
about "white spaces" -- vacant TV channels that can be used to bring
high-speed Internet to rural and low-income Americans across the
country.
The NAB's hired guns have bombarded policy makers with false claims in a
desperate, last-ditch attempt to hoard these airwaves and to disrupt a
critical FCC vote taking place in just six days.
The FCC's five commissioners must not buckle under the intense lobbying
pressure:
Tell the FCC: Don't Give in to NAB Scare Tactics
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Here are the facts:
1. If we open white spaces now, we can bring the social and
economic benefits of a fast Internet connection to tens of millions of
Americans now on the wrong side of the digital divide.
2. FCC engineers have tested white spaces devices and determined
that the technology can deliver high-speed wireless Internet, without
interfering with adjacent TV broadcasts.
3. The NAB and Big Media are doing everything in their power to
close off access to white spaces because they fear competition from new
innovators and losing control of the public airwaves.
The NAB is furiously spending millions of dollars on dirty tricks and
political intimidation to scare the FCC away from white spaces. They
have high-priced lawyers and lobbyists, but we have you.
Take just one minute to sign this Halloween action card and forward it
to your friends
<http://free.convio.net/site/R?i=GU-2dYwnEURVeGoqTph8PA..> . Free Press
will deliver your cards to the FCC on Halloween and make sure they
"treat" us by opening white spaces for eveyone's benefit:
This Halloween: Stand Up to the Lobbyists' Scare Tactics
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With your support today, we'll expose Big Media's fear-mongering and
make certain that white spaces are used to make fast, affordable
Internet service a reality for everyone.
Thanks,
Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
Free Press
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www.savetheinternet.com
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1. Maybe NAB lobbyists have seen Poltergeist one too many times. But
whatever the case, we need to set the record straight by the time FCC
commissioners gather to decide the future of white spaces on November 4.
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2. Learn more about the fight to open white spaces at
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