[FC-discuss] House passes COAA with p2p provisions intact

[Fred Benenson]

That's the scary part -- its really hard to figure out how effective it will
be -- everyone in DC is saying that the law doesn't actually mandate this,
it just suggests exploring it.

That's not to say FC will be any better if the law gets passed. Its
certainly a bad thing if it gets passed, but we really have no pull here.

FC @ NYU has compiled a list of districts here:
http://www.freeculturenyu.org/congressional-districts-for-hr-4137/

of reps who are voting on this issue (The Higher Ed committee) but we now
need to mobilize for Senators.

EDUCAUSE is tackling the issue and doing good PR for it. I'm not sure we're
going to beat them on it. NYU's Washington Square News is running a story on
Monday or Tuesday that I've spent extensive time briefing a reporter with.

Gavin, what other vectors do you have in mind?

On Feb 7, 2008 11:51 PM, Elizabeth Stark <emstark at gmail.com> wrote:

> See, the thing is, as it says in the article, the staffers keep claiming
> that it will have NO effect on financial aid. Does anyone have more insight
> on this?
>
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> On Feb 8, 2008 2:50 AM, Gavin Baker <gavin at gavinbaker.com> wrote:
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> > Actions that will generate mainstream media coverage -- with the
> > emphasis on how this will deny financial aid to students who committed
> > no crime.
> >
> > Most of the coverage of this has been in industry media (technology and
> > academic circles). Clearly the insider organizing hasn't been enough --
> > we need parents calling to ask why they're going to take their kid's
> > student aid away.
> >
> > Oh, and why isn't there MASSIVE organizing on Facebook and MySpace
> > against this?
> >
> > (Aside: I've been absolutely dismayed by the ineffectual nature of the
> > organizing in this issue. The coalition against this trash is, sadly,
> > neither big enough nor loud enough. Changing that has to be one of the
> > top policy priorities for SFC and others who care about this. Even if
> > this never touches the Senate floor, it makes us look weak to have let
> > this run so far.)
> >
> > Fred Benenson wrote:
> > | I've been organizing call-a-thons for a while.
> > |
> > | It looks like it needs to make it through the Senate next.
> > |
> > | Aside from making more phone calls, what do you think we should do?
> > |
> > |
> > | On Feb 7, 2008 10:51 PM, Elizabeth Stark <emstark at gmail.com
> > | <mailto:emstark at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > |
> > |     Shall we try to coordinate action on this?
> > |
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> > |     From: *Arian Shahdadi* <ashahdadi at law.harvard.edu
> > |     <mailto:ashahdadi at law.harvard.edu>>
> > |     Date: Feb 8, 2008 1:36 AM
> > |     Subject: [fc-d] House passes COAA
> > |     To: Freeculture List <freeculture-discuss at hcs.harvard.edu
> > |     <mailto:freeculture-discuss at hcs.harvard.edu>>
> > |
> > |
> > |     See
> > |
> >
> > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080207-controversial-college-funding-bill-passedp2p-proviso-intact.html
> > ;
> > |     it passed by a WIDE margin with no change to the P2P provision.
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> > In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything
> > false about hope.
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