Hannah Sassaman

Communities need priority access to the internet.

When the Prometheus Radio Project and thousands of communities fought to build new community radio stations across America, we used the internet to organize protests, meetings, and advocacy that was so effective that it made the FCC change the rules to let us build our own stations.

Now that schools, churches, and community groups are fighting tooth and nail to make bring these stations -- low power FM radio stations -- to big cities, as well as the 800 small communities that have them.

If we have to depend on Comcast, Verizon, and the incumbent providers to let us build webtools that work to expand community radio -- and we can't pay the fees they'll charge grassroots groups like ours, without net neutrality -- we will lose a major way that we organize and communicate for free airwaves.

Please regulate as strongly as possible for principles of Net Neutrality -- for community radio, and communities in general.