Send Letters and Phonecalls To Your Reps on Tuesday – FCC At It Again – Trying to Take Away PEG (Public, Education, Government) Services

The FCC is in the process of rewriting cable law. Unfortunately, what’s being “rewritten” is the writing off of PEG channels. PEG = Public, Education and Government Access Channels
As always, this comes to me at the last minute and there’s nothing we can do directly besides hassle our Congresspeople to hassle the FCC to leave PEGs alone:

Take 30 seconds right nowto use this form to write them.
Then get the phone numbers it gives you and phone them all and tell them to tell the FCC to “save the Public, Education and Government Channels.”
I sent my letters. Now I’ll call in the AM.
Now…what is all this really about? Well I hopped over to the FCC website to see what I could see, and it would appear, yes, ladies and gentlemen, we have another Regulatory “Review of the Commission’s Broadcast Ownership Rules and Other Rules Adopted Pursuant to Section 202 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.”
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There’s a public meeting on Wednesday, December 20th where I guess the damage can
be done:
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I’m still reading through these docs now, trying to figure them out. This FCC stuff is such a drag…
Thanks for sending emails and making phonecalls Tuesday!

New Movie Out On 2003 Dixie Chicks Controversy

I’m sure many of you remember the Great Dixie Chicks Blacklisting Controversy of 2003, when Natalie Maines said she was ashamed the president was from Texas, and then Clear Channel made a top down decision to ban her band from the airwaves.
Well Christoher Fleeger sent me a DVD of his new movie, Protesting the Dixie Chicks and I thought it was great!
There’s a trailer available on the official website.
Another clip is up on YouTube, and Christopher promised that he would upload another clip about the FCC Radio Consolidation issues soon too.

Great week of Daily Shows from last week

Last week was a great week of Daily Shows and Colbert Reports last week.
So far I just have the Daily Shows up here (in both Quicktime and MP3s).
There were some really relevant and incredible shows last week and I want to make sure you see all the highlights.
So I’ll be putting them up one at a time starting now, too.
Here’s the playlist I’ve started for them: December Daily Show Clips.

Not Working For Dabble Anymore

The details don’t matter.
It’s all good, and I wish Dabble nothing but success 🙂
The important thing is to use lisa@lisarein.com from now on, for everything for me. Forever.
(And do drop me a line – this will be the first chance I’ve had to catch up with people in years!)
thanks!
lisa

Play the Dabble Challenge for $500 or a Video IPOD!

Today is Day 6 of the Dabble Playlist Challenge.
What is the “Dabble Playlist Challenge?” you may ask?
The answer: It’s an easy way for you to win $500 or a new Video IPOD.
Just check out The Dabble Blog to get the theme for the day. Today’s theme is “Parody Favorites.”
So just login to dabble, whip up a playlist, tag it “Dabble Challenge 2006” and “Parody Favorites” and wait to be the favorite playlist.
All you have to do is make a playlist with the Day’s theme – today’s is
Here’s where today’s playlists in the running will be collected.
Below are some playlist winners to date:

Thanksgiving Playlist

Hey send me any thanksgiving videos you know of (that ya like 🙂 and I’ll keep adding them all day.
Today I realized that, yes, there will be a wireless network in every household that I’ll be celebrating at today (I’m hopping around a bit), and, no, I wasn’t too proud to bring my laptop along with me and add videos to this playlist all day.
Thanksgiving 2006 Playlist
If it’s not rude to watch football or whatever it certainly can’t be too rude to watch videos on my laptop 🙂
Email me with your vids at lisa@dabble.com or send me a dabble message after you register for your own dabble account.
thanks and
gobble! gobble!

Playlist of UCLA PD’s Assault On A Student Last Week

This is really what you might want to circulate a bit over the holiday weekend.
A UCLA student was tazered while in handcuffs
This playlist documents the events themselves (a student recorded almost the whole thing on a cell phone) and interviews MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann conducted with a reporter from UCLA’s Daily Bruin and the student’s attorney, Stephen Yagman.
You can see it for yourself, and hear the students get threatened when they ask for the officers’ information.
I’m learning more about these tazers and that they are as lethal as guns or clubs or any other “lethal weapon,” and the various police protocols, state and local laws, and federal civil rights that were violated in the course of these events.
Using a lethal weapon, numerous times, on a restrained civilian (that has already assumed passive resistance by laying down on the floor) is effectively assaulting an unarmed individual.
I think we’re all going to need to know a lot more about the law in these areas, so we can protect ourselves against rogue officers in the future.

It’s My Birthday!

And, of course, I already got the best present (s) ever on Wednesday 🙂
Hey I just got another present — we just took control of the Senate!
Rummy and Mehlman are history too. wow.