Aloha e
come this friday at 5 pm to the adhoc DCCA meeting on the channel slamming and silencing of ‘ōlelo community media at Queen Liliuokalani Conference Room 335 Merchant Street, 1st Floor . info on hearing https://tinyurl.com/ybrtdfcc
from http://olelo.org/nochannelslam
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Spectrum is channel slamming ‘Ōlelo – displacing channels 49, 53, 54, and 55, including Video On Demand channels 50 and 52, into digital Siberia, or high-numbered channels that are hard to find, hard to watch, and far from the main traffic lineup. Starting February 6, when you turn on your TV to view any of our public, education, and government programs, it won’t be there. Instead, you’ll find our channels in the 180s. If you are unable to acquire a special box to connect to your existing TV, your access to the ‘Ōlelo channels will cease to exist completely.
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Spectrum is channel slamming ‘Ōlelo – displacing channels 49, 53, 54, and 55, including Video On Demand channels 50 and 52, into digital Siberia, or high-numbered channels that are hard to find, hard to watch, and far from the main traffic lineup. Starting February 6, when you turn on your TV to view any of our public, education, and government programs, it won’t be there. Instead, you’ll find our channels in the 180s. If you are unable to acquire a special box to connect to your existing TV, your access to the ‘Ōlelo channels will cease to exist completely.
Spectrum’s attempt to silence community media by displacing local programming channels and imposing barriers to access these channels discriminates against community access organizations like ‘Ōlelo and community voices like YOU. No other local programming channels will be forced to move. There is no legitimate reason to relocate these channels. Spectrum can and should leave community access channels where they are – like Hawaiian Telcom, O‘ahu’s other franchised cable operator, who keeps the ‘Ōlelo channels on digital 49, 53, 54, and 55.
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let us not say in that future time, when ‘ōlelo community media is a virtual unknown digital spectrum nomad of the upper siberian channel wastelands, places of which, possibly if ratings go up and their voice finnaly screams in the wilderness too loud, their channel will be moved yet again, is the best time, to ask for solidarity of support
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let us not say in that future time, when ‘ōlelo community media is a virtual unknown digital spectrum nomad of the upper siberian channel wastelands, places of which, possibly if ratings go up and their voice finnaly screams in the wilderness too loud, their channel will be moved yet again, is the best time, to ask for solidarity of support
by turning down the volume on peoples voices, people will obviously not know they are there . the community in comparison to the voices of oppression, will not be heard on tv really at all . it will suffer from this . strategically in places on Moku Honu this is how peoples voices were stopped on tv and how other community access channels funding and community support were, disappeared and silenced entirely . in ‘ōlelo community media's channel space will be squatting the same authoritarian order of hierarchy . the alternatives found on the internet as well will be a more censored, predetermined and restricted hierarchy
this cable infrastructure was landed here and imposed by the fakesate and hegemony on us, because this group or that thought they could make a profit . it would seem they did perhaps soo much so they would have paid off that investment in placing the infrastructure many times over . people through direct action could have built that infrastructure and by now, given the inherent safeguards and directly investment and management, would have to pay a minimal fee for it's maintenance, perhaps as in other places it would, without all of these "complications " just be
in the current regime, capitalist cable companies utilize their communications structures under and over commonly used areas like streets and sidewalks, mostly for their profit . in exchange for the use of what are considered common areas, capitalist cable companies were supposed to allow equal access to these lines of communication, to people . allowing them equal access of the lines which is equal in access and on par with the voices of oppression on cable stations, means not hiding the channels . they are again, proverbially turning down the volume on peoples voices
come this friday at 5 pm to the adhoc DCCA hearing, before ‘ōlelo starts the journey of banishment, digitally, box by box and neighborhood by neighborhood; starting on February 6th . talk, listen, plan strategies for the future, do direct actions of support, acts of video, practice, kokua with your fellows, be inspired in seeing the vision of soo many others who do ‘ōlelo community media; come this friday
‘ōlelo community media is strategically positioned and uniquely enabled, in the digital hierarchy of hegemony, to allow the possibilities of transformative change . in it's practice, it provides a space to crack the systems of hegemony . cracks inherently in these structures, somehow through our shared ecologies, naturally spread and reach out to other cracks, both spacially and temporally, to many other aspects of our reality . in this practice we have the time to touch the earth and breathe the possibilities; to see the connections of course, not only to other cracks, but to the sky and the environment as a whole . in this, they inspire and spread wider; opening fields of opportunities to understand, to see and to crack the system . the spaces ‘ōlelo provides, actually add to even this revolutionary process, in what seems when one sees it and practices it, soo obvious a way . in the creation of spaces of presence, it actually also records these instances for all to see, in a living way, not only now, but later . people can then in that future poignant moment say, in answer to the imperium of the impractical, it happened and this is what we need to do
mahalo nui
Oren K Tsutsumi
Oren K Tsutsumi
'Ōlelo Community Media
URGENT CALL TO ACTION: CAC meeting Friday 2/2 – Show Support
Mahalo for the already overwhelming responses. Your voices are being heard. The Hawai'i State Department of Commerce & Consumer Affairs (DCCA) just scheduled an emergency Cable Advisory Committee (CAC) meeting this Friday, 2/2/18 to hear from Charter on its migration of community access channels, public comment is welcome. This opportunity to voice your concerns directly to Charter/Spectrum and to the DCCA is critical. PLEASE HELP. Provide testimony and/or read your letters of concern as public comment.
DCCA CABLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (CAC) Meeting
5:00 PM, Friday, February 2, 2018
Queen Liliʻuokalani Conference Room
335 Merchant Street, 1st Floor
Honolulu, HI 96813
5:00 PM, Friday, February 2, 2018
Queen Liliʻuokalani Conference Room
335 Merchant Street, 1st Floor
Honolulu, HI 96813
Please be mindful that this meeting is not a protest or demonstration. It’s an opportunity to tell the CAC, Charter and the DCCA directly what you think about Spectrum’s forced channel change. For information, letters of support, and facts about Spectrum’s national impacts, go to www.olelo.org/nochannelslam.
See you there!
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