{"id":322763,"date":"2010-02-15T13:48:38","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centerformediajustice.org\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2010-02-15T13:48:38","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:48:38","slug":"listen-singing-for-broadband-access-in-appalachia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/322763","title":{"rendered":"Listen: Singing for Broadband Access in Appalachia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \t\t \t\tSinging For Broadband Access<\/p>\n<div id=\"article\">\n<div id=\"inset\">\n<p id=\"player\"><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/files\/mp3player.swf\" style=\"\" id=\"line\" name=\"line\" quality=\"high\" flashvars=\"file=http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/mp3.php?f=rss-12695-1.mp3&amp;repeat=false&amp;showdigits=false&amp;showdownload=true\" height=\"20\" width=\"160\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p> \t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tvar s3 = new SWFObject(\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/files\/mp3player.swf\", \"line\", \"160\", \"20\",  \t\t \t\t\"7\"); \t\ts3.addVariable(\"file\",\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/mp3.php?f=rss-12695-1.mp3\"); \t\ts3.addVariable(\"repeat\",\"false\"); \t\ts3.addVariable(\"showdigits\",\"false\"); \t\ts3.addVariable(\"showdownload\",\"true\"); \t\ts3.write(\"player\"); \t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/state\/WV\"> Public News Service  &#8211; WV<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/archives\/2010\/2\/\">February 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C1\/\">Arts &amp; Culture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C40\/\">Citizenship\/Representative Democracy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C6\/\">Community Issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C7\/\">Consumer Issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C53\/\">Cultural Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C19\/\">Human Rights\/Diversity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C21\/\">Livable Wages\/Working Families<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C25\/\">Rural\/Farming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C29\/\">Social Justice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C33\/\">Urban Planning\/Transportation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/index.php?\/content\/cat\/C52\/\">Youth Issues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/mp3.php?f=rss-12695-1.mp3\">Download audio<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/print.php?key=12695-1\">Print this article<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/emailArticle.php?key=12695-1\">Email This article<\/a><\/li>\n<p><!--select * from Category,diggCategories where Category.CategoryID=diggCategories.CategoryID and StoryGroupID=12695 and StoryID=1--><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.publicnewsservice.org%2Findex.php%3F%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F12695-1&amp;title=Singing+For+Broadband+Access&amp;topic=arts_culture&amp;bodytext=Charleston%2C+WV+-+%26%238220%3BAffordable%2C+Accessible+Broadband+for+All%26%238221%3B\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.publicnewsservice.org\/images\/digg.gif\" \/><\/a><\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h6>February 15, 2010<\/h6>\n<p>CHARLESTON, W.Va. &#8211; &#8220;Affordable, Accessible Broadband for All&#8221; is the tune from by community groups in Kentucky, West Virginia and across the nation. With &#8220;net neutrality&#8221; and access to broadband two hot topics in Washington, a community group in Appalachia has released a song as their part of a national effort by the <em>Media Action Grassroots Network (MAG-Net)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The picking and singing are part of a grassroots effort to get the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to protect the principles of an open, democratic Internet. Activists want the agency to promote fast access and keep Internet providers from favoring certain kinds of traffic. The Kentucky group <em>Appalshop<\/em> has hosted a Broadband Quilting Bee and posted a song about the issues on YouTube. It&#8217;s called &#8220;My Chicken Ain&#8217;t Got No Scratch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the mountain to the valley, from the holler to the &#8216;hood, get your business cooking, do everybody some good. I said universal, universal broadband if you please&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Without rules to protect the poor and people of color, Eloise Lee, program director with the group <em>Media Alliance<\/em>, says free speech will continue to get more and more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a really critical time where certain decisions are being made in D.C. that could negatively affect the way people access the Internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FCC is working on a National Broadband Plan to present to Congress next month. It proposes affordable access to high-speed Internet. The agency&#8217;s chairman has said he wants to develop rules that would stop Internet service providers, such as AT&amp;T and Comcast, from selectively blocking or slowing some Web content so as to favor other users. Opponents say the new regulations would hinder the development of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more on &#8220;My Chicken Ain&#8217;t Got No Scratch&#8221; and the Broadband Quilting Bee at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchengine.com\/free-release.php?id=46465\">www.pitchengine.com<\/a>. More info on national efforts is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediagrassroots.org\/\">www.mediagrassroots.org<\/a><\/p>\n<h6>Dan Heyman, Public News Service &#8211; WV<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singing For Broadband Access Public News Service &#8211; WV February 2010 Arts &amp; Culture Citizenship\/Representative Democracy Community Issues Consumer Issues Cultural Resources Human Rights\/Diversity Livable Wages\/Working Families Rural\/Farming Social Justice Urban Planning\/Transportation Youth Issues Download audio Print this article Email This article February 15, 2010 CHARLESTON, W.Va. &#8211; &#8220;Affordable, Accessible Broadband for All&#8221; is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}