Battle For the Net: Mass Day of Action Aims to Stop Trump's FCC from Destroying Free & Open Internet | Daily Digest 07/11/2017

Former FCC Commissioner on How Greater Media Consolidation is a Threat to Democracy and Free Speech & As the Pope Calls for Dialogue, a Debate on How to Resolve Venezuela's Political & Economic Crisis Democracy Now! Daily Digest A Daily Independent Global News Hour with Amy Goodman & Juan González Tuesday, July 11, 2017 democracynow.org Stories Battle For the Net: Mass Day of Action Aims to Stop Trump's FCC from Destroying Free & Open Internet  On Wednesday, nearly 70,000 websites and organizations are planning to take part in massive online protest to save net neutrality. Participating ... Read More → Former FCC Commissioner on How Greater Media Consolidation is a Threat to Democracy and Free Speech As the Trump administration weighs the proposed AT&T-Time Warner merger, we talk about the risks of greater media consultation with former FCC ... Read More → As the Pope Calls for Dialogue, a Debate on How to Resolve Venezuela's Political & Economic Crisis In Venezuela, nearly 90 people have died and more than 1,500 have been injured since April, when opposition groups began organizing a new round of street ... Read More → Headlines → Scientist Warn Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction Has Already Begun Report: 100 Companies Responsible for 70% of Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions 80 People Arrested on Capitol Hill Protesting GOP Healthcare Plan NYT: Trump Jr. Knew Meeting with Lawyer was Part of Russian Gov't Effort to Help Trump Win Election White House Contradicts Trump on Whether He Discussed Sanctions with Putin London's High Court Rejects Effort to End Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia NYT: Kushner & Bannon Asked Erik Prince & DynCorp Owner for Proposal on Private Contractors in Afghanistan To Boost Consumer Power, CFPB Challenges Wall Street's Mandatory Arbitration Marine Corps Plane Crashes in Mississippi, Killing 16 on Board Brazil: Rapporteur for Lower House Committee Recommends Trial for Temer Turkey: More Than 40 Academics Arrested at 2 Istanbul Universities Monday Bahrain: Human Rights Activist Nabeel Rajab Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison Palestinian Baby Dies After Inhaling Tear Gas Shot by Israeli Forces into His Home Groundbreaking Media Critic Jack Shaheen Dies at 81 Forward this email → Donate today → Follow WEB EXCLUSIVE Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently Pt. 2: Syrian Citizen Journalist Abdalaziz Alhamza Speaks Out WEB EXCLUSIVE Berta Cáceres's Daughter on Surviving Attempted Attack in Honduras WEB EXCLUSIVE Rami Khouri: Syria's Proxy War is Culmination of Last Century of Failed Arab State-Building COLUMN Trump's Man With a Plan ... to Suppress the Vote Nationwide SPEAKING EVENT 8/12 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK 207 W 25th St — 11th Floor — New York, NY — 10001 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License