CALL TO ACTION! PRESERVE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION NOW!
Visit the CALL TO ACTION: http://www.alliancecm.org/calltoaction
Ask your Senators & Representatives to support the Community Access Preservation Act by faxing them here!
The Alliance has launched a campaign to Preserve Community Access Now - to pass the Community Access Preservation Act! Our goal is to get co-sponsors for the bill in the House, get a version filed in the Senate, get the bill passed by Congress, and signed by the President - before the 2010 summer recess.
On October 8 Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin filed the Community Access Preservation Act, which, if enacted, would preserve and protect PEG access channels in four ways. The Alliance, along with NATOA, worked with Congresswoman Baldwin to craft this bill (HR 3745).
This bill:
- Removes use restrictions on PEG access fees;
- Ends operators' discriminatory treatment of PEG channels;
- Directs the FCC to study and report on the effects recent states' video franchising legislation have had on PEG access; and
- Defines all video services delivered to the home over wire as "cable" for the purposes of the act, regardless of the transmission protocol used.
There are a number of steps community media advocates can take to help in this campaign:
Fax your Representative and Senators today! Use our free and simple online fax tool. Ask them to support HR 3745 - we need co-sponsors in the House, and a companion bill in the Senate. Please personalize these letters as best you can - speak to the value PEG access channels play in your own community, and the loss your community would suffer without them. When they take positive action, we will let you know, so you may thank them.
Your faxed letters won't be enough! Meet your Congressional representatives face-to-face as soon as possible! Meet them in both their home district offices and in Washington. Give them the bill, explain how it will benefit you and their local area, and ask them to support the bill. Call Kathy at CMAP today about how you can support CMAP, and Community Television across the nation!
