[RTC List] Local Networks First!

[Sean McLaughlin]

 From a leading advocate for locally owned broadband networks:

Friends -- President-elect Obama's economic stimulus package will
include funding for broadband infrastructure in underserved areas.

The usual suspects are lining up to cash in:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/16/AR2008121602930.html?hpid=topnews%3Cbr%3E

But we can tell Congress and the new administration:  This is no
time for business as usual.

Local Networks First!

Communities across America have been building their own broadband
networks.  Tell Washington that local networks should get first
priority for economic stimulus funding.

Here's why:  http://www.main.nc.us/localnetworks

If you agree, please take a moment to do two simple things:

1.  Go to:   http://www.change.org . . . 
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/local_network_stimulus_a_green_broadband_policy
and vote for "Local Network
Stimulus: A 'Green' Broadband Policy." 


2.  Then go to:   http://change.gov/page/s/yourstory . . . and tell
President-elect Obama why local broadband networks are . . . real
change we can believe in.

Building our own infrastructure . . . is real media reform.


Wally Bowen
Executive Director
Mountain Area Information Network (MAIN)
Asheville, N.C.