Here is the text of an email I just received from MoveOn.org that I thought needed to be shared.
I just learned about a really important issue, and signed a petition about it. The federal government is on the verge of turning over a huge portion of our public airwaves to companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast–who will use them for private enrichment instead of the public good.
These newly available airwaves are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to revolutionize Internet access — beaming high-speed signals to every park bench, coffee shop, workplace, and home in America. Phone and cable companies don’t want this competition to their Internet service–they’d rather purchase the airwaves at auction and sit on them.
You can sign the petition I signed here - urging the government to make sure the public airwaves are used for the public good:
Here is a piece of brain crack that has been bouncing around in my head all week.
Enjoy and don’t forget to share!
I want to find an old, abandoned warehouse in downtown Durham and clear it out. Ideally, we would find a building we could purchase but a flexible landlord could work as well.
I would get a phone line, power and internet up and running and invite any and all Local On-Line Marketing Entrepreneurs to share the space. Eventually, we could get partitions and conference areas.
Rent would be negligible and we would all have people around to bounce ideas off of and problem solve with. Partnerships would ensue on a project basis and people with totally different skill sets could get together as needed. Everyone in the building would be a possible vendor and a possible client.
Eventually, we could share some support services like lawyers and accountants.
If I could learn a little more about how to pull this off or could get a few good leads on abandoned space that would be willing to take a chance on an experimental tenant, I would be willing to follow up on this and try to make it happen.
My Jaw dropped to the floor when I saw George bush on Idol last night.
He was there to thank America for the 70 Million dollars they raised during their Idol gives back campaign last week. (updated to 70 from 50 on air tonight)
How dare he. How f–king dare he.
This is the same man who is asking congress for a 124 Billion dollar paycheck to spend on the un-just, illegal war he started in Iraq by un-apologetically lying to the American people.
The same man who - THAT DAY - vetoed that bill because it included a timetable for withdrawal.
I shouldn’t be surprised, we have all come to expect this kind of chutspa.
But still, to think, all he has to do is end this war and that $124,000,000,000 could be going to anything else.
Instead, he decides to blow it on this awful war. His decision. He’s the decider.
Then he has the balls to thank America for 70,000,000 and offers to sing in order to be helpful.
I’ll tell you what you can do jackass, you can end this war and put this money to some use here at home. Feed some hungry, shelter some homeless, end addiction right here at home, that’s what you can do.
Look at these numbers:
$124,000,000,000 to fund the war, just for this year.
$70,000,000 raised by Idol that Bush was so thankfull to the American People for.
Thats only .05% of the war budget bush is asking for from congress.
.05%
Does anyone else feel like this is so disgustingly wrong.
And still, what can we do? What can we, as individuals do about this?
Does anyone else feel completely powerless here?
(steps of soap box, sighs heavily, shakes head in disgust, tries to go settle down)
My name is Adam Schultz. This blog is my personal space to discuss those things that interest me most, my family, social media, content strategies, on-line marketing and people with passion.
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