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If you or your constituents want to be part of the fight to stop Big Media, the clock is ticking.

FCC Chairman Kevin Martin plans to call a vote at the FCC's monthly meeting tomorrow on his proposal to allow more media consolidation. Hundreds of national, state, and local organizations are mobilizing to turn up the heat on Martin to cancel the vote and establish a fair process for public input. We need to deal with crucial issues of localism and minority media ownership before considering any new rules.

But Martin seems to be done listening to the public, so our main pressure point right now is the Senate's bipartisan Media Ownership Act of 2007 (S. 2332).

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Net Neutrality Is Essential to a Democratic and Dynamic Internet
From HearUsNow.org, June 7, 2007
By Mark Cooper

By Harnecker, June 06, 2007, Published on ZNet

In the mid 70s the non aligned countries demanded a New World Information and Economic Order. Some time later, this decision led the United States to withdraw from UNESCO. For many decades only five or so monopolies controlled flows of information. It is only now that the demand to understand information as a human right and to democratize access to the media is being seen as a necessary requirement for building systems that are really democratic. The existence of media like Telesur or Al Jazeera, the proliferation of community radio and television stations, the expansion of computer networks and free software and the efforts states are making to take back control of their airwaves are all part of this effort to democratize the airwaves.

(CNN and other major news outlets in the United States are calling Hugo Chavez an opponent of free speech because he will not renew a Venezualen public television station's license to broadcast. These media entities claim that this is further evidence that points to the democratically elected leader as a dictator. However, what CNN and others fail to mention is the real reason Chavez in effect shut the station down. What follows is an article from FAIR which uncovers the real story behind the media slander of Chavez.)