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I don't know if this stuff is interesting to everyone here, but the FCC is going on tour across the country talking about the transition to digital TV next year. They'll be in Houston on 9-17 and in Austin on 9-18. I attached their press release. It seems like they're trying to limit the agenda to just how to get a converter box for your TV, but I thought it would be great if more folks came who wanted to ask more critical questions to the FCC about their policies.

Goodman has been charged with obstruction; felony riot charges are pending against producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar.

The following is an updated release from Democracy Now!

from: http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/31/raids/
Here's is the extraordinary blog item (http://iwitnessvideo.info/blog/index.html) from Eileen Clancy, one of the founders of I-Witness Video -- a NYC-based video collective which is in St. Paul to document the policing of the protests around this week's Republican National Convention, just as they did at the 2004 GOP Convention in New York.

Clancy wrote this as a plea for help, as the Police surrounded her house and (before they had a search warrant) told everyone inside that they'd be arrested if they exited the home:

A Milestone in the Fight for Internet Rights
August 20th, 2008 by tkarr

It’s official. The Federal Communications Commission published its order today lowering the hammer on Comcast for derailing Internet users’ Web access and then pretending that the cable giant was doing nothing wrong.

The order, approved by a bipartisan FCC majority at the beginning of the month, demands that Comcast “must stop” its ongoing practice of blocking Internet content by year’s end.

As we have written before, this action carries considerable weight.

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