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    Our coalition represents 50 out-of-the-beltway community organizations and leaders nationwide working to ensure justice, equity, and democratic rights for small businesses, communities of color, and America’s poor. America needs to establish clear rules of the road for the protection of broadband—the telecommunications infrastructure of the twenty-first century. It is unacceptable, however, for Congress to propose any legislation that is essentially the same as the roundly criticized Google-Verizon plan, and would further disenfranchise many while creating gross prosperity for a few.

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    Our coalition represents 50 out-of-the-beltway community organizations and leaders nationwide working to ensure justice, equity, and democratic rights for small businesses, communities of color, and America’s poor. America needs to establish clear rules of the road for the protection of broadband—the telecommunications infrastructure of the twenty-first century. It is unacceptable, however, for Congress to propose any legislation that is essentially the same as the roundly criticized Google-Verizon plan, and would further disenfranchise many while creating gross prosperity for a few.

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    Waxman Letter On Open Internet Bill

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    Our coalition represents 50 out-of-the-beltway community organizations and leaders nationwide working to ensure justice, equity, and democratic rights for small businesses, communities of color, and America’s poor. America needs to establish clear rules of the road for the protection of broadband—the telecommunications infrastructure of the twenty-first century. It is unacceptable, however, for Congress to propose any legislation that is essentially the same as the roundly criticized Google-Verizon plan, and would further disenfranchise many while creating gross prosperity for a few.

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    Dear Representative Waxman,

    Our coalition represents 50 out-of-the-beltway community organizations and leaders nationwide working to ensure
    justice, equity, and democratic rights for small businesses, communities of color, and America’s poor.

    America needs to establish clear rules of the road for the protection of broadband—the
    telecommunications infrastructure of the twenty-first century. It is unacceptable, however, for Congress to
    propose any legislation that is essentially the same as the roundly criticized Google-Verizon plan, and would
    further disenfranchise many while creating gross prosperity for a few. Legislation must provide adequate net
    neutrality protections for wireless broadband, and support full FCC rulemaking authority—thereby ensuring the
    agency’s ability to prevent unjust and to reform USF, and vigorously advance the Commission's stated goals of
    ensuring that all rural and low-income households have affordable access to broadband.

    Congress must not take the unprecedented step of limiting the power of the FCC to craft clear and enforceable
    rules, which are necessary to prevent anticompetitive and undemocratic abuses by wealthy and powerful
    telecommunications providers. Such a limitation on FCC oversight authority would place communities of color,
    poor communities, rural communities, and small businesses at great risk. Classifying broadband access as a
    telecommunications service is the only sure way to protect these various communities, and our
    organizations can support no less than the full protections our communities need and deserve.

    Internet discrimination, high costs, and digital redlining disproportionately affect the least-served and most
    vulnerable populations in the U.S., curtailing broadband adoption for many historically marginalized constituencies.
    Enforceable and effective rules are necessary to ensure net neutrality, provide broadband subsidies to low-income
    individuals, protect vulnerable consumers, and close the digital divide. Our communities cannot afford the
    expansion or codification of any loopholes that further undermine the openness of the Internet, explicitly prohibit
    the FCC from taking any proactive steps to enforce openness principles, or drastically curtail FCC ability to
    implement key components of the national broadband plan.

    The Internet is the most dynamic communications system of our time, and requires an approach to governance
    that protects Internet users from corporate abuses. The measure of success must include high standards for
    equity. Any legislation proposed by Congress must measure up to these standards, not turn the Internet into a
    piggy bank for big media.

    While bi-partisan efforts to set rules of the road were unsuccessful, the FCC still has the power to break
    the deadlock on Net Neutrality. Our organizations ask that you follow through on the words of your office,
    “The bottom line is that we must protect the open Internet. If Congress can’t act, the FCC must.”

    Please hear the voices beyond the beltway, and continue to call upon FCC Chairman Genachowksi to act
    and to reclassify broadband as a Title II communications service.

    Signed by,
    Center for Media Justice
    ADDITIONAL SIGNERS

    1. Center for Media Justice, Malkia Cyril 33. Willie C. Velazquez Institute, Antonio
    2. Presente.Org, Laurie Ignacio, Favianna Gonzalez
    Rodriguez and Roberto Lovato 34. Centro Cultural, Raul ‘Papo’ Fernandez
    3. Center for Community Change, Garlin 35. High Plains Reader, Raul Gomez
    Gilchrist, II for (for identification purposes) 36. Twitteros, Matt Reyes
    4. Color of Change, James Rucker 37. Southwest Organizing Project
    5. Pillsbury United Community Waite House, 38. Radio Pocho, Miguel Vargas
    Francisco Segovia 39. MN Center for Neighborhood Organizing,
    6. IDEPSCA, Mobile Voices, Amanda Garces Margaret Kaplan
    7. Access Humboldt, Sean McLaughlin 40. Peoples Press Project, Duke Schempp
    8. National Latino Farmers and Ranchers, 41. Esperanza Peace and Justice Center,
    Rudy Arredondo Graciela Sanchez
    9. Prometheus Radio Project, Brandy Doyle 42. UNITE HERE San Antonio, Danna
    10. Media Alliance, Tracy Rosenberg Schneider
    11. Native Public Media, Loris Taylor 43. People Organized to Win Employment
    12. Media Justice League, DeAnne Cuellar Rights, Alicia Garza (for identification
    13. Reclaim the Media, Jonathan Lawson purposes)
    14. Thousand Kites, Nick Szuberla 44. Community Justice Network for Youth,
    15. Community Technology Network, Kami Malachi Garza
    Griffiths 45. Media Literacy Project, Andrea Quijada
    16. Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Chris 46. Community Alliance for Global Justice,
    Mitchell Heather Day
    17. Bernalillo County La Raza Unida, Enrique 47. Southwest Workers Union, Genaro Lopez
    Cardiel Rendon
    18. Vera Project, David Dawes 48. National Association of Hispanic
    19. Main Street Project, Steven Renderos Journalists, Iván Román
    20. People’s Production House, Kristofer Rios 49. Philadelphia Student Union, Nijmie
    21. The Praxis Project, Makani Themba-Nixon Zakkiyyah Dzurinko
    22. Center for Rural Strategies, Tim Marema 50. Philadelphia Community Access Media,
    23. League of Young Voters, Biko Baker Antoine Haywood
    24. Open Access Connections, Ed Petsche 51. Organizing Apprenticeship Project,
    25. Media Mobilizing Project, Todd Wolfson Salvador Miranda (for identification
    26. Global Action Project, Meghan McDermott purposes)
    27. Pineros y Campesinos Unidos en el 52. National Radio Project, Khanh Pham
    Noreste, Erubiel Valladares Carranza II 53. Alliance of South Asians Taking Action,
    28. La Asamblea de Derechos Civiles, Hannah Jasmin Thana
    Garcia 54. UNITY Journalists of Color Inc., Onica
    29. United Taxi Workers Alliance, Ronald Makwakwa
    Blount 55. Chicago Media Action, Scott Sanders
    30. Colectivo Flatlander, Tomás Aguilar 56. Deep Dish TV, Brian Drolet
    31. Applied Research Center, Rinku Sen 57. Trans Youth Support Network, Ryan Li
    32. New York Community Media Alliance, Dahlstrom
    Juana Ponce de Leon 58. Main Street Alliance, Sam Blair
    59. Oregon Action, Ron Williams
    60. Colorado Progressive Coalition
    61. Center for Social Inclusion, Khalil Shahyd
    62. Pine Mountain Residents for Broadband,
    Samantha Sparkman
    63. Washington Community Action Network
    64. Idaho Community Action Network
    65. Progressive Technology Project, Arif
    Mamdani
    66. The Utility Reform Network, Ana Montes
    67. Northwest Federation of Community
    Organizations, LeeAnn Hall

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