The following from Liberty Underground, makes the point that People
Power can peacefully change the rules. My only caution is that we do
not really believe we've won the war, as the article states. We've
won an important battle, but the war continues so long as Corporate
Capitalism rules.
Carl Jarvis
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HOW THE NET NEUTRALITY WAR WAS WON
An article from Waging Nonviolence details how powerful activism, led
by Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, was responsible for yesterday's
ruling on net
neutrality.
"We don't like to occupy," said Kevin Zeese, an organizer with Popular
Resistance, the local activist group responsible for the occupation.
"It's a tactic
that we use very sparingly, but we decided the situation was urgent
enough that we had to do it in this case."
The occupation did not change the FCC's rulemaking notice, which was
already locked in at that point. But activists won one key concession
from the FCC:
Wheeler announced that during the period for public comments on the
FCC's proposed rules, he specifically wanted to hear if people thought
Title II was
the way to go.
"That was really amazing because before we occupied, we were told that
reclassification was off the table -- it was politically impossible and
would not
be considered," Zeese said. "But when they say it's politically
impossible, our job as activists is to make it politically doable."
The response was overwhelming. In the following months, 3.7 million
public comments were left on the FCC's website. More than 99 percent
of the comments
were in support of strong net neutrality rules.
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/activism-won-real-net-neutrality/
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