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On Feb. 26, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press and our allies gathered to make our voices heard one more time before the big vote at the agency. Just hours later the FCC passed strong Net Neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act.
Save the Internet
New York FCC Office, 201 Varick St., Room 1151 (Map)
New York, NY 10014
Thursday, May 15th, 12:00 PM
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"Message from Mary S.: The future of the Internet as we know it is at stake. The FCC is proposing rules that would kill the open Internet and create a fast lane for companies that can afford big fees and a slow dirt road for the rest of us. We're fighting back--and we're being heard. This Thursday, May 15, the FCC will meet in Washington, DC, to vote on whether or not to advance this proposal. We'll rally in DC, but we won't stop there: We'll gather at FCC offices in 24 cities to send shockwaves through the FCC bureaucracy until they restore real Net Neutrality and protect the Internet for all of us."
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On Feb. 26, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press and our allies gathered to make our voices heard one more time before the big vote at the agency. Just hours later the FCC passed strong Net Neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act.
On Jan. 29, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press organized a a historic battle between two contenders who symbolized the fight over the fate of the Internet. On one side was Net Neutral-i-kitty, representing the millions of Internet users who had spoken out for Net Neutrality over the past year. On the other side was Cable Boss, hailing from the self-serving nation of Comcast.
On Feb. 26, 2015 Net Neutrality activists and allies gathered to celebrate strong Net Neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act.
Hundreds of Internet cats rallied outside the FCC in support of Chairman Tom Wheeler’s hints that the agency will pass strong Net Neutrality rules.
On Feb. 26, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press and our allies gathered to make our voices heard one more time before the big vote at the agency. Just hours later the FCC passed strong Net Neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act.
On Jan. 29, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press organized a a historic battle between two contenders who symbolized the fight over the fate of the Internet. On one side was Net Neutral-i-kitty, representing the millions of Internet users who had spoken out for Net Neutrality over the past year. On the other side was Cable Boss, hailing from the self-serving nation of Comcast.
Google was a strong supporter of Net Neutrality
arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/08/a-paper-trail-of-bet...
until they made an announcement with Verizon
arstechnica.com/telecom/guides/2010/08/googleverizon-we-d...
arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/08/google-net-neutralit...
He'll be covering the rally
arstechnica.com/author/matthew-lasar/
Public policy groups rallied online & gathered 300.000 signatures
savetheinternet.com/blog/10/08/13/
More coverage
www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10961776
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/13/BUN1...
www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_15772896
news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20013651-265.html
www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/net-neutrality-google-pro...
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367814,00.asp
thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/114253-googl...
www.dailyfinance.com/story/protesters-at-google-hq-demand...
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On Feb. 26, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press and our allies gathered to make our voices heard one more time before the big vote at the agency. Just hours later the FCC passed strong Net Neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act.
These photographs are about my relationship with the Earth, whereby I am representing humanity. But in my work as a photographer I can only speak for myself. I am celebrating the majesty and grandeur of nature and how we fit into it. In the photographs showing distant vast landscapes, I show evidence of humans through cars and electric towers all dwarfed by the awesome storm clouds and mountains. This beauty of nature is also evident in the more intimate views of the farms and country roads, again, showing our relationship with Earth and man’s harnessing of it for his own use.
Mine is a positive, optimistic point of view, because the scenes are beautiful and that implies that the beauty, even beyond or in spite of man’s tampering will always be there.
I use contrasting points of view. The macrocosm and microcosm. From very distant vistas, to closer images of rural scenes, down to close-up views of earth, moss and clovers, tree trunks, bark and root.
I strip them all of colour to present a raw image that allows the viewer to respond emotionally to shape, texture and contrast. I use techniques such as selective focus, lens vignette and rather large print size to draw the viewer in. The soft focus on the edge, gives a dream like effect and a “vintage photography” feeling from a time before we knew we were destroying our environment with harmful technology.
The works also evoke a quiet and calm sense of serenity. Although there is evidence of man’s existence in the photographs through the farms, buildings and towers, there are no actual humans in the images, so the lone viewer becomes the only perceived living participant in the scene.
Visual drama created by massive dark clouds has always intrigued me. It is one of the ways for me to understand how small we humans really are in this universe.
To be exhibited at Galerie Image Photo Encadrement, Sutton, Québec, Canada.
Entire month of December, 2005.
33" x 22" digital, Giclée print.
I have also created a short film that expresses some of my concerns about the destruction of nature. You can view it here.
On Jan. 29, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press organized a a historic battle between two contenders who symbolized the fight over the fate of the Internet. On one side was Net Neutral-i-kitty, representing the millions of Internet users who had spoken out for Net Neutrality over the past year. On the other side was Cable Boss, hailing from the self-serving nation of Comcast.
Hundreds of Internet cats rallied outside the FCC in support of Chairman Tom Wheeler’s hints that the agency will pass strong Net Neutrality rules.
Ajit Varadaraj Pa, aka Ajit Pai, is Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He is a former lawyer for Verizon Communications.
This caricature of Ajit Pai was adapted from a photo in the public domain from Wikimedia.
Hundreds of Internet cats rallied outside the FCC in support of Chairman Tom Wheeler’s hints that the agency will pass strong Net Neutrality rules.
DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT LAUNCHES NATIONWIDE ACTIONS
ACTIONS ROLL ACROSS THE NATION DEFENDING INTERNET FREEDOM BEFORE HISTORIC FCC VOTE & IN OPPOSITION TO CONGRESSIONAL FAST-TRACKING OF LARGEST U.S. TRADE DEAL EVER
On February 26th the FCC made their historic vote on Net Neutrality. Simultaneously, when Congress reconvenes after the congressional recess, they are preparing to bring Fast Track of the Trans-Pacific Partnership up for a vote. The Rolling Rebellion for Real Democracy is confronting these two current issues of people power vs. corporate power that will have a major impact on people's lives.
Firstly, the issue of Net Neutrality. A people-powered movement has convinced the FCC to reclassify the Internet to ensure equal access for all without discrimination. Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance notes that “Net Neutrality is essential for the exercise of Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century. Now the telecom companies are trying to convince their puppets in Congress to undermine the FCC's decision and once again, the people are fighting back.”
Secondly, TPP and Fast Track. For three years a movement opposed to secretly negotiated corporate trade agreements has stopped Congress from giving President Obama Fast Track trade authority. Fast Track would allow him to sign these secret agreements and then push them through Congress without hearings or amendments, with only brief debate on and an up-or-down vote. These trade agreements are structured solely in the interest of corporate gain. The TPP and Fast Track are bringing together odd bedfellows like in Spokane, WA where Tea Party members and Occupiers are coming together in opposition.
Eleanor Goldfield a musician with Rooftop Revolutionaries and activist with the Rolling Rebellion says passage of the TPP and Fast Track would “turn corporate personhood into corporate nationhood by creating international court systems and trade tribunals that allow corporations to challenge laws enacted by countries in the interest of public health, safety and justice.”
With this sovereignty, corporations would hold sway over nearly every facet of our lives, from food to Internet access. As Julian Assange wrote, “If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you’re ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.”
In the months of February and March, people are protesting at the grassroots level, combining their efforts into a national movement for equal access Internet and against secret trade deals. Years of organizing have brought these issues to a head. Now, activists have been mobilizing and coordinating high-visibility actions in cities from coast to coast.
In Washington and Oregon a “Fair Trade or BusTour” complete with hand-painted murals and packed with constituents payed visits to undecided members of congress. In San Diego, CA community-members took to highway overpasses to deliver to their representatives their message emblazoned on LED light panels. Across the U.S. activists are using guerrilla light projection to illuminate monuments and building facades with slogans like “Don't Let Comcast Choke Your Freedom,” “No Slow Lanes, Open & Equal Internet For All,” and “TPP Dismantles Democracy - www.stopfasttrack.com.” Multiple actions were organized at telecom companies like Comcast, AT&T, and Time Warner Cable who are second only to defense industries in the amount that they spend lobbying and buying favors from representatives who are supposed to serve "We The People." On February 25th in Washington, D.C. a new documentary “Killswitch: The Battle to Control the Internet” was screened before members of congress and activists from across the country. Then, activists unveiled a larger than life killswitch to dramatize the stakes of the historic FCC vote.
The FCC's announcement to vote in favor of Net Neutrality is a complete paradigm shift from less than a year ago; a true show of the effectiveness of focused, dedicated grassroots action.
If we continue to fight and win these battles, they will stand as tremendous victories of people power over corporate power. The people will have stopped some of the most powerful corporate lobbies in the United States including the telecoms and hundreds of transnational corporations.
Using high visibility, creative actions, the Rolling Rebellion has and will continue this fight. For more information, please visit www.rollingrebellion.org.
Popular Resistance, Backbone Campaign, www.occupy.com, and more teamed up to launch the rolling rebellion and reignite the fight for a real democracy.
On Jan. 29, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press organized a a historic battle between two contenders who symbolized the fight over the fate of the Internet. On one side was Net Neutral-i-kitty, representing the millions of Internet users who had spoken out for Net Neutrality over the past year. On the other side was Cable Boss, hailing from the self-serving nation of Comcast.
I think this was the same day as the FCC's ruling on net neutrality.... so my mind started thinking about dead end for cable companies which want to gouge consumers with expensive slow internet.
On Feb. 26, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press and our allies gathered to make our voices heard one more time before the big vote at the agency. Just hours later the FCC passed strong Net Neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act.
On Jan. 29, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press organized a a historic battle between two contenders who symbolized the fight over the fate of the Internet. On one side was Net Neutral-i-kitty, representing the millions of Internet users who had spoken out for Net Neutrality over the past year. On the other side was Cable Boss, hailing from the self-serving nation of Comcast.
credit: Vanissa W. Chan/ACD Media
On Monday, Oct. 28 over 100 people gathered to speak out for the open Internet and against the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger at the Brooklyn Public Library in New York City.
Ajit Varadaraj Pa, aka Ajit Pai, is Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. He is a former lawyer for Verizon Communications.
This caricature of Ajit Pai was adapted from a photo in the public domain from Wikimedia.
In my mind I conjure up images from post holocaust documentary films of the death camps taken by the allied forces. Bodies piled up one on to of the other, as the bulldozers would shovel them into the massive graves. Trees symbolize life. Cut down gives me an ominous feeling that foreshadows an end of humanity.
These photographs were taken in Canada where the lumber industry is well regulated to maintain the forests. As the grown trees are cut down there are young ones planted to keep replenishing the tree population. Nevertheless the feeling of sadness and doom is ever present.
Image source:
www.flickr.com/photos/eastscene/5089949848/
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OK Go's Damian Kulash on music, collaboration, and net neutrality
Created by Colby Hoke for opensource.com
On Jan. 29, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press organized a a historic battle between two contenders who symbolized the fight over the fate of the Internet. On one side was Net Neutral-i-kitty, representing the millions of Internet users who had spoken out for Net Neutrality over the past year. On the other side was Cable Boss, hailing from the self-serving nation of Comcast.
On Feb. 26, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press and our allies gathered to make our voices heard one more time before the big vote at the agency. Just hours later the FCC passed strong Net Neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act.
FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai held a forum on Net Neutrality at Texas A&M University in College Station on Oct. 21., 2014. Net Neutrality advocates rallied outside before the event.
On Jan. 29, 2015 outside the FCC, Free Press organized a a historic battle between two contenders who symbolized the fight over the fate of the Internet. On one side was Net Neutral-i-kitty, representing the millions of Internet users who had spoken out for Net Neutrality over the past year. On the other side was Cable Boss, hailing from the self-serving nation of Comcast.