Uodate from Capitol Hill
Elise and I are in Washington DC today, visiting Congress for support of HR2060. (There are a bunch of other independent webcasters here as well, we're doing a full on "save net radio" assault on the lawmakers.)
So far, we're up to 25 co-sponsors of the bill! This is great. We've gone into meetings and they've told us they've gotten tons of messages and phone calls about it, so you're doing a great job! And if you haven't called, or written yet, PLEASE do it now!
There are many other congressmen who are "on the fence" about this issue (the RIAA propaganda machine is well funded and they have well-connected lobbyists) so we still need all of you to let congress know that they should support HR 2060, the Internet Radio Equality Act.
Thanks again to everyone who has supported us in our fight to stay on the air.
SomaFM's Elise Nordling and GotRadio.com's Val Starr outside Dan Lungren's office in Washington.
posted by Rusty Hodge at
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
7 Comments:
Keep up the good work!
I'd hate to see internet radio suffer, especially SomaFM.
Hello,
recently I discovered your great SomaFM Indie Pop Rock station. Since I'm from Germany I cannot support the Internet equality act directly but I donated 10$. I hope you will succeed in your fight for a fair treatment of Internet radio.
Best wishes,
Andreas
I just left a message for my Representative. I only discovered SomaFM a few days ago, and I am so grateful for what you do. Thank you.
I thinks it's awesome that you and Elise are taking the time out of your busy lives to go to Washington like this in support of Somafm and other internet radio webcasters as well as the millions of listeners out there. You are incredible people.
Any chance you can list the representatives that are already co-sponsoring the bill? I don't want to keep hammering my reps if they're already on board!
Good luck in DC!!
Check this out.. I voted for you guys here.
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/04/poll_if_webcast.html#comments
Salut, detectives.
While you are in D.C. The I-Wish Project will help put a face on Internet Radio in Hollywood this weekend. I encourage people to come out and make their wishes known.
Best,
Philip Warbasse
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