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by Documents May 6 2008 - 6:30am Auctions
BEFORE THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20554
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To: The Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau
by Documents Feb 28 2008 - 5:15pm Press release
Update: Confirmed Speakers include: FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and
Jonathan Adelstein.
The Benton Foundation and the Public Interest, Public Airwaves Coalition
(PIPA)
invite you to a discussion on:
Public Interest Obligations in the 21st Century: Where Do We Go from Here?
A Look at the Federal Communications Commission's
New Broadcast Disclosure Rules and the
Issues Raised in the FCC's Localism Proceeding
Confirmed Speakers include: FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and
Jonathan Adelstein. There will also be a panel of key actors and
discussion with attendees.
Time and Location:
Monday, March 3, 2008
12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
National Press Club
Lunch will be served.
RSVP: Cecilia Garcia cgarcia@benton.org
or 202-454-5611
PIPA coalition includes the Benton Foundation, Campaign Legal Center,
Common Cause, Institute for Public Representation of Georgetown
University Law Center, Media Access Project, New America Foundation,
by Documents Feb 4 2008 - 9:13pm Alt-media
Pacifica "Super Tuesday" Election Night Broadcast and LiveBlog @ KPFA.orgTuesday, February 5th, 5PM - 10:PM PT
On February 5th, voters in 22 states will caucus and vote on the composition of roughly half the delegates at this year's Democratic and Republic national conventions (and more than a third of the delegates in the Green convention). It's the biggest Super Tuesday ever—and virtually guaranteed to determine which candidates will go to the mat for the presidency in November.
For Republicans, it's a battle of the base, as candidates representing the party's libertarians, evangelicals, and business conservatives pull the GOP in opposite directions. For Democrats, it's a battle of the buck between the two best-financed candidates in the history of American politics.
Pacifica Radio will bring you up-to-the minute voting results, speeches from winners and losers, and analysis of who's voting, why, and what it all portends for November. Polk Award-winning broadcaster Larry Bensky will co-anchor with Aimee Allison. Additional contributions from Hard Knock Radio's Davey D.
by Documents Jan 24 2008 - 4:23pm Press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 24, 2008
KPFA Radio to Broadcast the Largest Teach-In in US History
Over One Thousand Colleges to Participate in Global Warming Day
(Berkeley, CA - January 24, 2008) While the ice caps melt and the
government stalls, campus organizers are putting together the largest
teach-in in U.S. history – and KPFA Radio will broadcast the event from
the campus of San Francisco State University.
On January 30^th and 31^st, scholars, activists, and policymakers will
gather at SF State and over one thousand other colleges and universities
across the country to discuss the future of our planet. Expert speakers
will include Van Jones, Michael Glantz, and Dennis Martinez.
“Focus the Nation is the largest grassroots effort to date to energize
the country to take urgent action to address climate change,” says
teach-in organizer and San Francisco State professor Carlos Davidson.
“All that we lack to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is political will.”
KPFA Radio will broadcast the teach-in on Thursday, January 31^st from
10am to 6pm, anchored by Karolo Aparicio, Brian Edwards-Tiekert,
by Documents Jan 22 2008 - 11:34am Broadband
REMARKS OF COMMISSIONER MICHAEL J. COPPS
“FREE MY PHONE”
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION FORUM
WASHINGTON, DC
JANUARY 22, 2008
Good Morning and thanks to my friend Michael Calabrese and the New America
Foundation for holding another of its forums that have done so much to serve the public
interest. It’s an honor, and somewhat humbling, to speak before this distinguished panel
and what is obviously an expert audience. I’ll try to be brief because I’m just as eager to
hear from the luminaries gathered here as you are.
Over the week-end, I was remembering back to 1970 when I first went to work in
the United States Senate. Our fanciest piece of work-saving equipment was an old robo
machine that cranked out pretty awful-looking mass mailings. Everything else was typed
by hand and when Selectric typewriters came along, we all fought tooth-and-nail to be
one of the lucky few to get one. When the Senator dictated even a minor change to a
speech draft, his personal secretary had to retype the entire text. When we needed to
phone back to the state, we had a WATS line, but initially we shared it with a more senior
by Documents Jan 15 2008 - 6:25pm Broadband
PUBLIC NOTICE
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St., S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20554
News Media Information 202 / 418-0500
Internet: http://www.fcc.gov
TTY: 1-888-835-5322
DA 08-91
Released: January 14, 2008
COMMENT SOUGHT ON PETITION FOR DECLARATORY RULING REGARDING
INTERNET MANAGEMENT POLICIES
WC Docket No. 07-52
Comment Date: February 13, 2008
Reply Comment Date: February 28, 2008
The Wireline Competition Bureau seeks comment on a petition1 filed by Free Press et al.
(Petitioners), seeking a declaratory ruling “that the practice by broadband service providers of degrading
peer-to-peer traffic violates the FCC’s Internet Policy Statement” and that such practices do not meet the
Commission’s exception for reasonable network management.2
This Public Notice establishes certain procedural requirements relating to consideration of the
Free Press et al. Petition for Declaratory Ruling. This matter shall be treated as a “permit-but-disclose”
proceeding in accordance with the Commission’s ex parte rules. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 1.1200, 1.1206.
by Documents Jan 12 2008 - 8:42am Broadband
From the San Jose Mercury News
By Matt MarshallVentureBeat 11/14/2007
Barack Obama will unveil several new technology policy initiatives today during a visit to Silicon Valley, including a proposal for a national technology czar called a "chief technology officer," VentureBeat has learned.
The Democratic presidential candidate comes to California seeking to bolster his standings here, where he currently trails front-runner Hillary Clinton in most opinion polls.
Obama's tech agenda, including the CTO proposal, should play well with the employees at Google, the Mountain View search engine, where Obama will visit this afternoon, among other stops.
The CTO's mandate under the plan is significantly different from the cybersecurity czar position created by the Bush administration. The CTO's main responsibility would be to ensure the government holds open meetings and records live Webcasts of those meetings, and that blogging software, wikis (Web site pages where multiple people can edit a document at the same time) and open comments be used to communicate policies with Americans.
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