CAP Toolkit

1. Call-to-Action Letter

This is our primary Call-To-Action alert letter.  It will be the cover document for toolkit packages distributed at PEG access facilities and elsewhere.  It announces the bill's filing, and the Alliance's immediate goal of gaining 50 co-sponsors - importantly, from BOTH parties.

2. Bill Summary

This is a 1-page summary that simply and clearly explains the bill's four areas of PEG access protection and preservation.  The bill:

a)  Removes use restrictions on negotiated PEG access fees;
b)  Ends operators' discriminatory treatment of PEG channels (digital channel slamming & U-Verse Channel 99);
c)  Directs the FCC to study and report on recent states' video franchising legislation impacts on PEG access; and
d) Defines all video services delivered to the home over wire as "cable", regardless of the transmission protocol used.

3. Sample Support Request Letters to Senators & Representatives

Face-to-face visits are essential, but the campaign also calls for access advocates to send letters to their congressional representatives asking them to co-sponsor the bill.  This is a sample.

4. Sample Thank-you letter to Representatives (coming)

Once representatives decide to co-sponsor, they need to receive thank-you follow up letters from access advocates.  This is a sample.

5. Bill section-by-section analysis

This is a 2-page document, spelling out in more detail, the specific changes required by the bill.  While this is not an essential document for the involvement of the general public in the campaign, it is an essential document for campaign leaders and others who are having ongoing discussions with legislators or the press on this matter.

DOCUMENTS TO BE GIVEN TO THE REPRESENTATIVES IN FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS

6. The Bill

This is the bill itself - a 4-page pdf.

7. "Assessing the Damage" Harms Survey

This is Alliance's 2008 2-page pdf highlighting the damages done by recent states' video franchising legislation - a set of abuses our advocates should be able to recite from memory.

8. About the Alliance

This is the 1-page document describing the Alliance for Community Media and its mission.

9. The Alliance Public Policy Platform

This is the 2-page document describing the Alliance's public policy platform.  Any Alliance members meeting with Congress to support our position should familiarize themselves with this document.