The FCC hears a million voices

Last Thursday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced that some broadband aspects would be reclassified as Title II Universal Services. After earlier indications that he might do just the opposite, this was good news for rural communities, and low-income and communities of color. It means the FCC is reclaiming its authority to protect the Internet and [...]

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Yes We Won’t?

Amalia Deloney and Steven Renderos wrote this post. It may make it to a few other blogs, too. We had high apple pie, up in the sky hopes for the promise of an open Internet. Why were communities of color and the poor so happy? Because the key to the Obama Administration’s success in the [...]

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OneWebDay: A Bold Idea

“We believe that we need to transform the social infrastructure of our communities to match the increasingly digitized and technologically mediated environment we live in.”

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When Media is in Our Own Hands: Storytelling as Organizing

Storytelling predates the written word. People have been telling stories for as long as we have had speech. Stories are learned image-by-image, rather than word-by-word, and are retold from the heart. Throughout history, stories have been used to educate, express, advocate and organize. It is through the sharing of stories that communities build their identities, [...]

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DTV Day of Action: It’s Time for a Socially Responsible DTV Transition

In 2005, the federal government passed the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act.  Signed into law by President Bush Feb. 8, 2006, the legislation established a hard date for broadcasters to cease analog television transmissions and transition to digital technology. The bill gave the FCC the authority to terminate analog licenses for full-power television [...]

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Justice and TV: More Related Than You Think

I grew up in a home without TV. Ok, that’s not entirely true. We had a TV, but it was hardly the center of our livingroom, and it came with serious restrictions. For my entire childhood, television was limited to an hour a day (at most) and cartoons on Saturdays–but only until 9 AM (Yeah, [...]

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