BEFORE THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20554

To: The Chief, Wireless Telecommunications Bureau

Update: Confirmed Speakers include: FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and
Jonathan Adelstein.

The Benton Foundation and the Public Interest, Public Airwaves Coalition
(PIPA)

invite you to a discussion on:

Public Interest Obligations in the 21st Century: Where Do We Go from Here?

A Look at the Federal Communications Commission's
New Broadcast Disclosure Rules and the
Issues Raised in the FCC's Localism Proceeding

Confirmed Speakers include: FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and
Jonathan Adelstein. There will also be a panel of key actors and
discussion with attendees.

Time and Location:

Monday, March 3, 2008
12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

National Press Club

Lunch will be served.

RSVP: Cecilia Garcia

or

PIPA coalition includes the Benton Foundation, Campaign Legal Center,
Common Cause, Institute for Public Representation of Georgetown
University Law Center, Media Access Project, New America Foundation,

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 23, 2008

KPFA Radio to Air New Weekend Programs on Current Affairs and Economics

(Berkeley, CA - January 23, 2008) On Saturday January 26th, KPFA Radio
will introduce to its airwaves two new programs from the Pacifica
Network. Behind the News is a radical program of economics and politics
hosted by Doug Henwood, acclaimed economic journalist and contributing
editor to The Nation magazine. Behind the News originates from Pacifica
Radio's WBAI in New York City. Uprising, the weekly digest of the daily
program on Pacifica Radio's KPFK in Los Angeles, is hosted by
award-winning broadcaster Sonali Kolhatkar, who is the Co-Director of
the Afghan Women's Mission. Uprising provides news and analysis from a
progressive, internationalist perspective and features regular
commentaries by journalist Rahul Mahajan and The Black Agenda Report.

"I'm honored and excited at the opportunity to join KPFA's programmers
in providing progressive journalism to Northern California listeners,"
says Kolhatkar.

Behind the News and Uprising will air at on Saturdays at 10am and 11am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 24, 2008

KPFA Radio to Broadcast the Largest Teach-In in US History

Over One Thousand Colleges to Participate in Global Warming Day

(Berkeley, CA - January 24, 2008) While the ice caps melt and the
government stalls, campus organizers are putting together the largest
teach-in in U.S. history – and KPFA Radio will broadcast the event from
the campus of San Francisco State University.

On January 30^th and 31^st, scholars, activists, and policymakers will
gather at SF State and over one thousand other colleges and universities
across the country to discuss the future of our planet. Expert speakers
will include Van Jones, Michael Glantz, and Dennis Martinez.

“Focus the Nation is the largest grassroots effort to date to energize
the country to take urgent action to address climate change,” says
teach-in organizer and San Francisco State professor Carlos Davidson.
“All that we lack to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is political will.”

KPFA Radio will broadcast the teach-in on Thursday, January 31^st from
10am to 6pm, anchored by Karolo Aparicio, Brian Edwards-Tiekert,

REMARKS OF COMMISSIONER MICHAEL J. COPPS
“FREE MY PHONE”
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION FORUM
WASHINGTON, DC
JANUARY 22, 2008
Good Morning and thanks to my friend Michael Calabrese and the New America
Foundation for holding another of its forums that have done so much to serve the public
interest. It’s an honor, and somewhat humbling, to speak before this distinguished panel
and what is obviously an expert audience. I’ll try to be brief because I’m just as eager to
hear from the luminaries gathered here as you are.
Over the week-end, I was remembering back to 1970 when I first went to work in
the United States Senate. Our fanciest piece of work-saving equipment was an old robo
machine that cranked out pretty awful-looking mass mailings. Everything else was typed
by hand and when Selectric typewriters came along, we all fought tooth-and-nail to be
one of the lucky few to get one. When the Senator dictated even a minor change to a
speech draft, his personal secretary had to retype the entire text. When we needed to
phone back to the state, we had a WATS line, but initially we shared it with a more senior