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DESCRIPTION:    Heads Up! on an upcoming rally - Let me know if you or your 
 organization would like to participate.      Peace, Nancy/CODEPINK      
 National Day of Out(r)age Against the Telcos!       Wednesday May 24, 2006 
 4:00-6:00pm       AT&T Building       600 Folsom Street (Btwn 2nd & 3rd 
 Sts.)       San Francisco, CA  Join Media Alliance, Access-SF Center, 
 CODEPINK and others for a lively rally outside of the AT&T building where 
 the National Security Agency (NSA) set up a secret spy room to collect 
 phone calls.  On May 24th, thousands of people in cities across the country 
 will protest the Telephone Companies AT&T and Verizon. We are outraged by 
 the tactics of the major telephone companies (AT&T, Verizon and Quest) to 
 pass National Video Franchising legislation in Congress. The Telcos are 
 spending one million dollars a week to buy the votes of Congress people for 
 their legislation (House Bill 5252 and Senate Bill 2686) and on advertising 
 to influence public opinion, using 'astroturf' groups to distort the 
 issues. The proposed legislation will curb local control over video 
 franchises, negatively impact thousands of local Public, Educational and 
 Governmental Access channels, allow red-lining in low-income and rural 
 communities and jeopardize the openness of the internet by removing 'net 
 neutrality' provisions designed to promote competition.  Recent news also 
 has exposed the privacy violation of millions of telephone users by AT&T 
 and Verizon who willingly handed over call records to the National Security 
 Agency without proper legal warrants. AT&T has also been in the news about 
 it's collusion with the NSA to install computers to track the internet 
 traffic on their Worldnet backbone. Now these same corporation want even 
 more access to homes throughout the country with their fiber networks. We 
 demand accountability and  better protections!  If you'd like to 
 participate in a fun & creative action outside of AT&T Ballpark on Weds. 
 May 24th at 11:30am-12:30pm contact Jeff jeffp123@gmail.com  For more info. 
 contact Nancy codepinkbayarea@riseup.net \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/18/102393.php
SUMMARY:	National Day of Out(r)age Against the Telco
LOCATION:    AT&T Building       600 Folsom Street (Btwn 2nd & 3rd Sts.)       San 
 Francisco, CA  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/18/102393.php
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