Media Justice Advocates are Breaking Down the Door!

Latest Press Release:

The Center for Media Justice and a number of media justice advocates including Media Literacy Project and Native Public Media have been appointed by the Federal Communications Commission’s Chairman Julius Genachowski to theConsumer Advisory Committee. 

The Committee was developed to gather and make recommendations to the FCC regarding consumer issues within the jurisdiction of the FCC, and to facilitate the participation of all consumers in proceedings before the FCC. Topics to be addressed by the Committee will include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Consumer protection and education, and outreach to underserved populations such as Native Americans and persons living in rural areas.
• Access by people with disabilities (e.g., telecommunications relay services, hearing aid compatibility, video description, closed captioning, accessible billing and access to telecommunications products and services).
• Impact upon consumers of new and emerging technologies (e.g., availability of broadband, digital television, cable, satellite, low power FM, and the convergence of these and emerging technologies).

“Thanks to the great work of the Media Action Grassroots Network and a large network of media justice advocates, we are able to take part in the policy-making process.” said Amalia Deloney, Policy Director for the Center for Media Justice. “Media policy isn’t just for ‘telcos and nerds’, out in the community we realize that more mergers just bring more problems. We’re here to carry the voices of poor, rural and communities of color to the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee in order to ensure jobs in the communities we represent are a top priority, and that all consumers are protected.”

The first meeting will be held August 17th at the FCC headquarters in Washington D.C. All meetings are open to the public and will be broadcast live with open captioning over the internet from the FCC Live web page. 

Currently, the Media Action Grassroots Network is asking its supporters and allies to oppose a proposed AT&T – T-Mobile merger which they say will be a jobs and democracy killer and a “disaster for all mobile phone users — especially people of color and low-income communities in rural and urban areas.”

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