[Occupymendocino] the FCC - [Fwd: Emergency protest]

[nlnelson at mcn.org]

did any one else get this ??

anyone game to stand in front of Huffman's office or City Hall?

Nancy Wallace-Nelson


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Subject: Emergency protest
From:    "Evan Greer from FFTF" <info at list.fightforthefuture.org>
Date:    Tue, November 4, 2014 6:37 pm
To:      nlnelson at mcn.org
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Dear Fight for the Future member,
https://battleforthenet.com?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0ODU5MDUyLGVtYWlsaWQ9OTIzNw==
Did you hear about the massive protests in Hungary? The government there
proposed an Internet Tax, that would have charged ordinary internet users
exorbitant prices *per gigabite.*
Thousands of people took to the streets in protest, holding their shining
cell phones aloft as a symbol of resistance to the unfair Internet Tax. In
response, the government announced they would lower the tax.
Instead of accepting the compromise, even more people took to the streets
demanding unfettered, affordable access to the free and open web. And they
won. The government backed down and took the controversial tax off the
table.
It’s election day here in the U.S. and we face a similar crisis.
Regardless of which party comes out on top today, the FCC is set to
annihilate net neutrality and open the floodgates for rampant Internet
censorship and abuse. This is the moment we’ve been building for. In the
last year, Fight for the Future has grown to more than 1 million members!
We are stronger than we’ve ever been and we have the power to save net
neutrality, but signing petitions and making phone calls isn’t going to
be enough.
This Thursday, November 6th we’re organizing emergency protests across
the country, but we need more people to step up and help “anchor”
protests in their towns. Anchoring a protest is easy: it just means you
pick a time and location, and agree to be there and get as many of your
friends as possible to come. The protests themselves are simple: we are
asking people to gather in the evening at government buildings and hold
their glowing cell phones, laptops, and tablets aloft to shine light on
the growing corruption in DC and demand real net neutrality.
We, and several other groups with large email lists, will send an email to
our thousands of members in your area encouraging them to attend your
event.
https://battleforthenet.com?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0ODU5MDUyLGVtYWlsaWQ9OTIzNw==
You can also reply to this email if you are able to help anchor a protest
and we’ll get in touch with you right away.
The protests on Thursday will be the kickoff for a month of escalating
actions leading up to the FCC’s final decision, which we expect to come
in early December. We’ll be holding these vigils every Thursday leading
up until that point, so if you can help organize one any time in the
coming weeks, let us know! Just reply to this email, we’ll see it.
We’ve updated
https://battleforthenet.com?t=dXNlcmlkPTU0ODU5MDUyLGVtYWlsaWQ9OTIzNw== to
support these emergency protests.
Please share the link far and wide and tell as many people as possible
that the fight for net neutrality is coming to a head and we need to start
something big right now.
For the Internet,
-Evan at Fight for the Future
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