Note the Islamic looking logo.
Posted on 12/17/2010 11:45:32 AM PST by bronxville
Open Letter to FCC Calling for Real Net Neutrality
More than 80 grassroots organizations, consumer groups, civil rights organizations, innovative businesses, technology experts and public interest advocates filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission on Friday, signaling broad support for strong Network Neutrality rules. The letter highlighted five key areas in which rules proposed by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski must be improved to protect the free and open Internet. The Commission is slated to vote on Net Neutrality on Dec. 21. FCC_Letter_Real_Net_Neutrality.pdf
freepress = reform media. transform democracy.
Note the Islamic looking logo.
How many funded by Soros?
Hey libs...you want war?
Make our day.
May as well get this over with.
Sean McLaughlin
Executive Director
Access Humboldt
Josh King
Board Member
Acorn Active Media Foundation
Jay April
CEO
Akaku: Maui Community Television
David S. Bennahum
President & CEO
The American Independent News Network
Scherazade Daruvalla King
Executive Director
amplifyme
Barbara Kooyman
Director
Artists For Media Diversity
Charles Benton
Chairman
Benton Foundation
Jim Miller
Executive Director
Brave New Films
Donna L. Gacek
Executive Director
Cape Ann Regional Cable TV Access Corporation
Randy Paynter
CEO
Care2
Susan Fleischmann
Executive Director
Cambridge Community Television
Lauren-Glenn Davitian
Executive Director
CCTV Center for Media & Democracy
Jeffrey Chester
Executive Director
Center for Digital Democracy
Malkia Cyril
Executive Director
Center for Media Justice
Dee Davis
President
Center for Rural Strategies
Ben Rattray
Founder & CEO
Change.org
James Rucker
Executive Director
ColorofChange.org
Bob Edgar
President
Common Cause
Thom Clark
President
Community Media Workshop
Dan Meredith
Founding Board Member
CUWiN Foundation
Markos Moulitsas
Founder
DailyKos
Levana Layendecker
Communications Director
Democracy for America
Jennifer Mercurio
Vice President & General Counsel
Entertainment Consumers Association
Rob Stuart
President
Evolve Strategies
Miriam Zoila Perez
Editor
Feministing.com
Josh Silver
President & CEO
Free Press
David Hirsch
Managing Director
Friends of the Earth
Casey Rae-Hunter
Communications Director & Policy
Strategist
Future of Music Coalition
Christopher Mitchell
Director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative
Institute for Local Self-Reliance
Lauren Hauser
Manager of Youth Programs
LinkTV
Steven Renderos
Program Director, Media Justice
Main Street Project
Tyrone Brown
President
Media Access Project
Tracy Rosenberg
Executive Director
Media Alliance
Tracy Van Slyke
Director
The Media Consortium
Ariel Dougherty
National Project Director
Media Equity Collaborative
Andrea Quijada
Executive Director
Media Literacy Project
Todd Wolfson
Co-Founder
Media Mobilizing Project
Annie Folger
Executive Director
Midpeninsula Community Media Center
Margaret Kaplan
Director
The Minnesota Center for Neighborhood Organizing
Chris Csikszentmihalyi
Director
MIT Center for Future Civic Media
Jed Alpert
CEO
Mobile Commons
Steve Katz
Publisher
Mother Jones
Wally Bowen
Executive Director
Mountain Area Information Network
Peter Rothberg
Associate Publisher for Special Projects
The Nation
Iván Román
Executive Director
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Kathryn Galan
Executive Director
National Association of Latino Independent Producers
Maxie C Jackson III
President & CEO
National Federation of Community Broadcasters
Alex Nogales
President & CEO
National Hispanic Media Coalition
Catherine Tactaquin
Executive Director
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Loris Taylor
Executive Director
Native Public Media
Peter Hussmann
Editor
Newton Independent
Holly Ross
Executive Director
Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN)
Nick Grossman
Director of Civic Works
Open Plans
Eddie Geller
President & Founder
Open Source Democracy Foundation
Sascha Meinrath
Director
Open Technology Initiative New America Foundation
Jeff Cohen
Director
Park Center for Independent Media
Nicholas Reville
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Participatory Culture Foundation
Duke Schempp
Organizer
The People’s Press Project
Carlos Pareja
Trainings & Policy Director
People’s Production House
Gretjen Clausing
Executive Director
Philadelphia Community Access Media
Roberto Lovato
Co-Founder
Presente.org
Cara Berg Powers
Co-Director, Curriculum and Outreach
Press Pass TV
Brandy Doyle, Danielle Chynoweth,
Pete Tridish, and Vanessa Graber,
Leadership Team,
Prometheus Radio Project
Gigi Sohn
President & Co-Founder
Public Knowledge
Steve Ranieri
Director
Quote...Unquote, Inc
Allyson Kapin
Co-Founder
Rad Campaign
Jonathan Lawson
Executive Director
Reclaim the Media
Clothilde Le Coz
Washington D.C. Director
Reporters Without Borders
Louis Massiah
Executive Director
Scribe Video Center
Justine Bateman
Owner
Section5
David Cohn
Executive Director
Spot.Us
Phillip Dampier
Founder
StoptheCap
Belinda Rawlins
Executive Director
Transmission Project
Jason Barnett
Executive Director
The UpTake
Cheryl Leanza
Policy Director
United Church of Christ Office of Communication, Inc.
Miller Puckette
Chair, Music Department
University of California, San Diego
Ed Mierzwinski
Consumer Program Director
U.S. Public Interest Research Group
Jaclyn Friedman
Executive Director
Women, Action & the Media
Jennifer Pozner
Executive Director
Women in Media & News
Allyson Kapin
Founder
Women Who Tech
Fran Korten
Executive Director
YES! Magazine
Venky Srinivasan
Founder & CEO
Zediva
http://www.freepress.net/files/FCC_Letter_Real_Net_Neutrality.pdf
Good question. There’s a few here one can see at a glance...
I also see David Fenton...he’s never around unless there’s big money involved. Whose the client?
Enjoy not being able to stream netflix unless you sign up for the most expensive plan. Or better yet, enjoy not being able to get to freerepublic as your ISP blocks the site.
I swear, some people are 100% clueless when it comes to net neutality. What do you think this is? Free Internet for everyone, paid by the telcos?
You people have no idea the ways companies are going to carve up the Internet and make it unusable.
Who really funds FreePress and its net neutrality allies?
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2009-10-02 18:16
Conflict of InterestFCCNet NeutralityOpen Internet
I posted the comment below on the Washington Post’s IT blogpost where FreePress urged the the Post to disclose its financial interests in cable systems.
FreePress hounds any voice that doesn’t support ‘net neutrality’ regulation to disclose their financial interests, like they did with urging the Washington Post to disclose that they owned cable systems in their editorial opposing net neutrality. I agree they should have disclosed, but I don’t agree that disclosure is only important for net neutrality opponents, but not for proponents like FreePress and its allies. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
FreePress has frequently attacked me as a shill and Astroturf. They ignore that I openly, unabashedly, and regularly disclose that my firm Precursor LLC is an industry consulting firm that works for companies and that I am Chairman of NetCompetition.org which is funded by broadband interests. It is not news that I strongly agree with the broadband sector view that markets produce better outcomes for consumers than regulation.
If transparency is truly important to Free Press, why doesn’t FreePress lead by example and openly disclose who all their major funders are and also demand that other prominent activist organizations in the net neutrality debate like New America Foundation, Public Knowledge, and the Media Access Project also fully disclose their corporate funding directly from Google, eBay, Amazon, or indirectly from their executives, employees or friends?
FreePress and its allies would have more credibility if they lived up to the standard they demand from everyone else and publicly disclosed who their corporate or wealthy sponsors are. FreePress doesn’t trust the representations of anyone else, why should anyone trust FreePress’ claims of being free of big money interests — be they corporate or individual?
So self-appointed astroturf-busters Mr. Tim Karr and Mr. Derek Turner of FreePress, be principled, take the high road, lead by example, and paste your major contributor list here and insist that your net neutrality regulation allies do the same. Come clean.
http://www.precursorblog.com/content/who-really-funds-freepress-and-its-net-neutrality-allies
“Note the Islamic looking logo.”
Note the slogan! Reform media? Heh heh ... NPR good, Fox bad, I’m guessing. Transform Democracy. Yeah, we’ve got a good glimpse of that right now.
These bastards aren’t going to let up, we will be at it soon if they keep this up.
Wonder how Third Manassas will turn out?
Comment from the above article -
“In denial
Submitted by Brett Glass on Sat, 2009-10-10 22:55.
At http://www.wetmachine.com/totsf/item/1674, Harold Feld, besides launching an ad hominem attack against Scott, also denies that Free Press expunges the names of its contributors from its published Forms 990.
But as one can see on page 16 of the PDF at -
http://www.freepress.net/files/FP_990_combined_Final.pdf,
Free Press really does blot the names out.
We do know the identities of some of Free Press’ funding sources, because while Free Press does not publish their names, some of the funders disclose that they’re giving money to Free Press.
For example, the Ford Foundation says that it has given Free Press several hundred thousand dollars. (This puts the lie to Free Press’ claim that it does not accept money from corporations, because the Ford Foundation is a corporation, albeit a nonprofit one.)
But who else is contributing? Does Free Press use the all-too-common ruse of listing corporate contributions as personal contributions from their executives? Is this why Free Press won’t reveal the list?”
One wonders if Benton has anything to do with them as I think they do “work” for some Muslim countries.
Do REAL grassroots groups ever have to describe themselves as such?
Media Mobilizing Project’s Facebook page is full of the usual impenetrable Marxist blather: “The central tenets of MMP are 1) issues of media democracy, justice and reform cannot be detached from larger socio-economic questions, and 2) new participatory media tools offer the possibility of fusing otherwise fragmented struggles for justice.”
I know that the Julien guy -> Harvard w/ Obama, aide to marxist judge Abner Mikva, aide to Schumer, etc, on the FCC worked for billionaire Diller who just sold some stuff to Comcast. There are many facets and even more greedy people involved.
Free Press is a “national nonpartisan organization working to increase public participation in crucial media policy debates, and to generate policies which will produce a more competitive and public interest-oriented media system with a strong noncommercial sector.” Its founder and president is Robert McChesney.
Executive Director - Josh Silver
Salim Muwakkil - Advisory Board
Craig Aaron - Communications Director
Funding
Mobilizing Media Reform “was made possible with generous support from:
Acra Foundation
Glaser Progress Foundation
Nathan Cummings Foundation
Otto Haas Charitable Trust
Overbrook Foundation
Park Foundation
Quixote Foundation
Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
and many individual donors.”
(source: enclosed brochure)
Ford Foundation
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Free_Press
From the lefties at sourcewatch...
Salim Muwakkil - Advisory Board?
Salim Muwakkil “is a senior editor at IN THESE TIMES magazine. He is an Op-Ed columnist for the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, a member of the editorial board, and a columnist for, the Madison-based Progressive Media Project, an advisory board member of Free Press and a 2000 Media Fellow of the Soros Open Society Institute. He was a contributing columnist for the Op-Ed page of the CHICAGO SUN-TIMES from 1993 to 1997. His work has won him many awards - including the Studs Terkel Award for journalistic excellence.
“Salim Muwakkil is a contributing author to six books: APPEAL TO REASON: 25 YEARS IN THESE TIMES, 2002; STATES OF CONFINEMENT, 2000; THE FARRAKHAN FACTOR: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ON MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN, 1998; THE BELL CURVE DEBATE, 1995; COLLATERAL DAMAGE: THE NEW WORLD ORDER AT HOME AND ABROAD, 1992; INSIDE THE L.A. RIOTS, 1992.
“From 1986 to 1990 he taught journalism at Chicago’s Columbia College. He has also been an adjunct professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Film Center, Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, the Associated Colleges of the Midwest’s Urban Studies, and the University of Illinois in 2001.
“From 1995-96 Muwakkil was a co-host of Pacifica News’ network daily “Democracy Now” program and from 1993 to 1996 he hosted a weekly talk show on Chicago radio station WVON-AM. Muwakkil is a frequent guest on CHICAGO TONIGHT, a public affairs program on PBS, BEYOND THE BELTWAY, a nationally syndicated radio program of political commentary. He has provided on-air political analysis for Fox TV News in Chicago and is an occasional commentator for the Pacifica News Network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and Monitor Radio.” [1]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Salim_Muwakkil
And, of course, Bill Moyers interviewed him...
http://www.pbs.org/now/society/muwakkil.html
Another Chicago guy.
Muakkil - Advisory
http://keywiki.org/index.php/Salim_Muwakkil
Craig Aaron - Communications
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Aaron
They are consistent in mentioning nonpartisan (Ha!) but say nothing about nonprofit...
How this got started (so they say).... ..."I proposed a grassroots political organization: One that wouldn’t be beholden to any party or politician, just solely dedicated to political action on behalf of the issues we care about. That organization is now the Open Source Democracy Foundation (OSDF). Net Neutrality was a natural choice to tackle as our first issue... http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/10/12/06/reddit-users-stand-net-neutrality First issue? Here we go - be ready to button down the hatch because we're in for a rocky ride over the next two years. I would bet 5 bucks it's the dark knight Soros who strikes - he owns the "Open" word. Open to what exactly one might ask...
If they would just define “net neutral”, the providers could be forced to only use the “net neutral” term to describe services that are within that definition. After that; free market.
Strikes what? The telco's wanting to monetize every bit on the internet? Forcing customers to buy the highest tier product to approach the speed/delivery we experience now? Blocking sites they simply don't like?
I think you need to take a look at what this is really about, besides simply looking for a boogie man.
I posted 6-7 posts with lots of info and you attack me on twelve words... lol
Info? What info? Anything pertaining to the core issues about net neutrality, or only ramblings about the boogie man behind everything the dems do? You sound like the dems talking about Rove years ago.
Can you please describe the future with no net neutrality? How will it benefit consumers? I can list 1000 ways it will make for a MUCH worse user experience. Let me guess, you answer will be soros. No facts, just soros.
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