<div dir="ltr">Dear friends,<div><br></div><div>Please take action TODAY to preserve an open internet and a community's ability to create their own broadband service. </div><div><br></div><div>Danielle<br><div><br><div>
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Date: Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 1:45 PM<br>Subject: They're attaching what to the appropriations bill??<br>To: <a href="mailto:chyn@ucimc.org">chyn@ucimc.org</a><br><br><br><u></u>
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<p>July 16, 2014</p>
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<p dir="ltr"><i><b>From Media Mobilizing Project, Media Action Grassroots Network Anchor in Philadelphia, PA: </b></i></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">Dear Danielle,<font> </font><font><span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=K1%2FiDdTIoVigh5ExUBQ5XPC4hhFvzW32" target="_blank">Media Mobilizing Project</a> has united with millions of people (1) across this country to protect Net Neutrality - <b>the idea that every one of us has the right to communicate online, free of discrimination from big telecom companies and from the government.</b><span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">We’re also working hard to make sure that big media companies - like Comcast (2) - can’t interfere with our right to tell our own stories in our cities, and to build the alternative networks we need to make internet affordable, reliable, and available to everyone.<span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"><b>That’s why we were stunned to hear that late last night, Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (3), Republican of Tennessee, attached two amendments to the “must-pass” appropriations bill coming to the floor of the full US House of Representatives </b>– one that would effectively kill Net Neutrality, and another that would prevent cities and towns from building their own local broadband networks.<span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">The vote could happen as soon as today. We need to call our Congressmembers now and tell them to vote NO on these amendments – protecting our right to communicate locally, nationally, and internationally. <b>Our friends at Free Press have put together a tool to tell our Representatives to vote NO, now. </b><span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=d648G2PCzVvwxx8wadx32vC4hhFvzW32" target="_blank">Click here to call your Representative to tell them to vote NO on both of these amendments.</a><span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">Big companies like Verizon and Comcast fought hard to keep hundreds of Pennsylvania cities from having the right to build their own networks, passing a law in 2004 that forbade our communities from building them. 20 states, including Pennsylvania, are prohibited from building our own networks (4). <b>If we can’t build our own networks or invite other providers easily into our cities, we’ll continue to suffer from high rates that keep millions of poor and working people offline</b>, and we’ll give these hugely profitable companies even more power to kill Net Neutrality.<span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">The time is now: <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=A24R%2BYruF%2BwUSWzqtxHHpeJprwKSIzTn" target="_blank">click here to call your Representative to tell them to vote NO on the amendments to the appropriations bill that would kill Net Neutrality and our right to build our own networks in our communities.</a><span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">Thank you,<span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">Hannah, Bryan, Jeff, Julia, Milena, Alix, and all of us at Media Mobilizing Project<span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">PS – To find out more about Media Mobilizing Project’s efforts to hold Comcast accountable to our right to communicate, visit <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WfKCeXE69my5t7Kh3GnnBvC4hhFvzW32" target="_blank">http://www.capcomcast.org</a>, and watch our special investigation into Comcast’s impact on our everyday lives at The Spark: <a href="http://mediamobilizing.org/thespark" target="_blank">http://mediamobilizing.org/thespark</a><span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">Voices for Internet Freedom: <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wQMlBSa%2BFU%2B%2BnYfPufcWJ%2FC4hhFvzW32" target="_blank">http://www.internetvoices.org/voices-home </a><span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">CAP Comcast: <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Juf7BJjbuorzLqFvYzYjQvC4hhFvzW32" target="_blank">http://www.capcomcast.org</a><span><br>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">“Marsha Blackburn (R-TN): Why One Congresswoman Wants To Block Fast, Cheap Internet In Her District.” International Business Times, July 16th, 2014. <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Mtq86NIeCXr%2Bh8VF0i%2FZgfC4hhFvzW32" target="_blank">http://www.ibtimes.com/marsha-blackburn-r-tn-why-one-congresswoman-wants-block-fast-cheap-internet-her-district-1630060</a></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="text-align:left">"ISP lobby has already won limits on public broadband in 20 states." Ars Technica, February 12th, 2014. <a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FaqWGjCFxdjFCxBv8kvEHfC4hhFvzW32" target="_blank">http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/02/isp-lobby-has-already-won-limits-on-public-broadband-in-20-states/</a></p>
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