[Peace] Moyers on the Internet for Sale/IMC panel on Net Neutrality

[Kimberlie Kranich]

Please forward widely.

Thank you.

In loving kindness,
Kimberlie
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  "The  Net at Risk"  -- 8pm Wednesday, October 18th on WILL-TV, your PBS  station   The  future of the Internet is up for grabs. At this very moment big corporations are lobbying  Washington to  turn the gateway to the  Web into a toll road. Yet the public is being kept in the dark about the potential hijacking  of democracy's newest forum for the exchange of ideas. If a few  megamedia giants own the content and control the delivery of  radio, television and the Internet, they'll make a killing and  you'll pay for it. Award-winning-journalist  Bill Moyers and journalist Rick Karr  report on the wannabe "Lords of the  Internet.

 THEN, Participate in a local discussion:

NET NEUTRALITY PANEL
What you need to know    about your internet before the November elections!

October 25,    2006
7-8:30 pm
Main floor Independent Media Center
202 S. Broadway,    Urbana, IL
(Building with the Post Office next to Lincoln Square    Mall)

Moderator
Greg Kline (News Gazette Tech    Columnist)

Panelists
US Congress: David Gill (candidate), Tim    Johnson will send a statement
Academic Voice: Victor Pickard    (UIUC)
Alternative Media: Paul Riismandel (WEFT)
Local Entrepreneur:    Peter Folk (Volo Wireless)
Local Citizen: Jim Hall

Questions will be    opened to the audience.

.    Childcare    provided.
.    Parking available in    the
      garage across the street

This is    a FREE EVENT co-sponsored by IMC and AWARE.
Call Marcia Zumbahlen at    369-1334 to co-sponsor this event.



 		
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