Subscribe[Correction: The original news of this rally that reached me indicated it was today. Thanks to Colin for sending me this important correction - the rally is actually on April 18th]
One of the problems with the enormous number of Facebook groups that have popped up to protest Time Warner is that it’s extremely difficult to get everyone on the same page to coordinate activism events. I encourage anyone running one of these groups to find someone they can appoint who can bring important news and developments to our attention so we can get the word out. Since we’ve been fighting caps for almost a year now, there are a lot of people, including media outlets, that already link to us as a trusted source. So please make sure you include us in getting the word out. If you’d like a regular column to keep everyone informed about developments in your Facebook group (or any other organized group effort), let me know with our contact form. I can give you an account to write your own column here.
Road Runner Usage Cap Protest
Time: 11:00am-5:00pm
Date: Saturday, April 18
Location: Time Warner Cable Store – 71 Mt. Hope Avenue – Rochester, New York
Click the link above to RSVP or get additional information.
The rally is the 18th, not this Saturday, just wanted to let you know
Can you copy the information from the Facebook event into your post, for people that don’t use Facebook?
I could, but what I am really looking for is some volunteers who could help pen those articles and alerts themselves for publication here. It’s going to be increasingly difficult for just one person to do these reports, particularly when events are happening on multiple Facebook groups (in addition to other channels).
I am a big believer in delegating and making this entire endeavor a team effort.
I’d volunteer, but I despise Facebook. I did post the announcement in a couple places, though, linking back to this page.
I was hoping to get one of their Facebook group leaders or enthusiasts to take up the challenge. I spend very little time on Facebook myself and with the growing number of protest groups forming there, I’d be spending an enormous amount of time trying to keep track of them and ferret out the important calls to action in between the hundreds of people simply sharing justified outrage.
It literally takes hours to research, edit and compile the longer articles I place here, so trying to track down a lot of the stuff being worked on by other groups can be challenging.
This entire issue has sparked a huge Grassroots response. I started an online petition;
http://www.petitiononline.com/twcfedup/petition.html
While I have joined many groups and causes on Facebook that reflect the outrage, I have located other petitions online as well. It would be best to combine them all into 1 but listing them here would help.
Keeping this issue alive in the media is essential! If we do not keep it in the headlines, it will vanish, be forgotten and shoved under the rug. Please do not let that happen.
Here is the information that someone did not want to take the time to post (above) from Facebook as well as Causes Information;
http://www.facebook.com/events.php?ref=sb#/event.php?eid=79868745942
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/263322/49693771?m=6d54c0aa
http://apps.facebook.com/causes/262319/49693771?m=26c5a60d
Petitions Online;
http://www.petitiononline.com/twcfedup/petition.html
http://www.petitiononline.com/UHSICP01/petition.html
Petitions Online charges a Fortune to print Original Hard copies of the signatures ($1.00) per signature. I do not know how I will pay for the Hard Copy Original of my Petition but I will not give up until I can. These need to be mailed to Albany, Congress, TWC and copies provided to Media sources. If any one has any suggestions please let me know!
Keep up the great work!
In case it hasn’t already been mentioned: Time Warner’s Director of Digital Communication posted on Twitter ( http://twitter.com/JeffTWC) that comments and complaints should be emailed to
realideas@twcable.com
and that they are in the process of “gathering feedback”.
So lets give him OUR Feedback!
[...] other issues they will face in the future, a planned demonstration outside of their offices on Mount Hope on the 18th April from 11am to 5pm (hay protesting for those hours should save you that 5gb you would have used watching three of [...]
For sure, just let me know what to do. I’m admin of the protest, and would be appreciative of any help from ANYONE – facebook or not.
Right now the best thing you can do to help for the protest, is spread the word. We have one flyer currently that I’ve hung up EVERYWHERE around RIT. Print a couple off, put em up around work, talk to people… spread the word. (:
If you would like to help out in some other way, drop me an email. Within the next week I’ll be sending out a mass message to everyone in the Facebook group, letting them know the exact plan of action for the 18th. Currently we’re looking for anyone thats willing to speak… if anyone is interested?
I can post here again (or somewhere on this site) with a copy of the rally info once its been written up and planned out.
flyer pdf:
http://people.rit.edu/~dxg1235/Stoptwc.pdf
Thanks all (:
Kyle I am going to try to make it there Saturday for an hour or so, if you need a speaker i might be willing to speak depending on what the material is. THanks!!
And yes I head one of the larger facebook protest groups with Diane as my co-administrator we are almost 2500 strong!!
Crap, i just used some of my bandwidth going to this page…
I will be bumping this back to the front page shortly in a new article, just as an FYI
11 am to 5 PM? A six-hour protest? You’re diluting the crowd. No one will stay for 6 hours. For maximum impact, keep it short – no more than 2 hours.
It is from 11am until 3 pm.