Protestors to Occupy FCC to Fight for Net Neutrality

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Organizer Kevin Zeese argues that the Internet should be treated as a basic utility like in Nashville, TN, which has one of the highest internet speeds in the U.S.

May 7, 14

Bio

Kevin Zeese is co-director of It's Our Economy, an organization that advocates for democratizing the economy. He's also an attorney who is one of the original organizers of the National Occupation of Washington, DC. He has been active in independent and third party political campaigns including for state legislative offices in Maryland, governor of California and U.S. president, where he served as press secretary and spokesperson for Ralph Nader in 2004. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006 and was the only person ever nominated by the Green Party, Libertarian Party and Populist Party. His twitter is @KBZeese.
Transcript
Protestors to Occupy FCC to Fight for Net NeutralityJESSICA DESVARIEUX, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I'm Jessica Desvarieux in Baltimore.

The FCC will be putting forward a proposal on net neutrality on May 15.

Now joining us in-studio to discuss this is Kevin Zeese. Kevin Zeese is the spokesperson for PopularResistance.org.

Thanks for joining us, Kevin.

KEVIN ZEESE, ORGANIZER, POPULARRESISTANCE.ORG: Glad to be here.

DESVARIEUX: So, first of all, Kevin, just explain really briefly what is net neutrality.

ZEESE: It means we all have equal access to the internet. The network is neutral, and it's neutral on who gets access, what content gets access. We all have equal access, and that's what we want to keep. We want the internet to be an equal-access, open-to-all service.

DESVARIEUX: And I know you're planning some actions in order to fight for this.

ZEESE: Exactly. We're starting actions on Wednesday the 17th [incompr.] interesting day. And then we're going to be--excuse me. Wednesday the seventh, and [we're going to] continue to work our way through the 15th. We're going to be there every day, two actions a day [incompr.] spend overnight again. I hate to go back to sleeping on a sidewalk, back to the sleeping inside the city kind of thing. I really don't enjoy it.

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