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Saturday, July 12, 2008

Help Stop Big Media

[This is a slightly edited reprint of an e-mail I received and support.]

Stop Big Media

Add Your Voice - Sign the Petition Today!

When members of Congress return home this summer, they need to hear why stopping further media consolidation must be a top priority.

By acting now, you can ensure that there are thousands of petitions ready to be delivered when Rep. Jeff Fortenberry sets foot back in your district for the summer congressional recess.

Help Stop Big Media: Sign the Petition Now

In May, the Senate voted to stop Big Media by passing a "resolution of disapproval," which rejected the Federal Communications Commission's latest effort to consolidate local media.

We won in the Senate. We can win again in the House.

To do this, we need to get 100 co-sponsors in the next 100 days to support the House version of the bill (H.J. Res. 79). This summer, we'll be delivering hundreds of thousands of petitions at in-district meetings with key members of Congress. Make sure your voice is heard.

Help Us Get 100 Co-Sponsors in 100 Days.
Sign the Petition Today

Tens of thousands of people already have signed the petition, and 30 members of Congress have agreed to co-sponsor the bill. But we need to do more to swing a majority in the House.

And we don't have much time. We plan to deliver the signatures in August, when elected representatives leave D.C. for the summer.

Congress may be about to go on break, but we aren't going to rest.

Thanks for your help,

Josh Stearns
Campaign Coordinator
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/
http://www.freepress.net/
P.S. Help spread the word! Join the 100 Cosponsors in 100 Days event on Facebook and tell your friends to sign the petition.


Take action on this important campaign at:
http://free.convio.net/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&id=265

Tell your friends about this campaign at: http://free.convio.net/site/Ecard?ecard_id=1109

StopBigMedia.com is a project of Free Press and the Free Press Action Fund, on the Web at www.freepress.net.

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