Hello All:  I just attending the 2011 National Conference on Media Reform where social media was discussed as useful for countering corporate media.  However, policies affecting net neutrality are currently being reviewed by the Senate and deserve public support.  Have your voice heard!  Below is a summary worth reviewing. 

National Conference for Media Reform Wraps in Boston  

BOSTON -- Sunday marked the end of the 2011 National Conference for Media Reform in Boston -- an energetic and inspiring gathering that brought together more than 2,500 grassroots activists, policymakers, journalists and scholars from across the country, as well as thousands more online.

Participants explored more than 80 sessions on topics ranging from how to fix the Federal Communications Commission to Wikileaks, online organizing and disaster response to the new face of media consolidation, public and community media to feminism and immigration....Net Neutrality was one of the hottest topics of conversation after the House of Representatives passed a bill Friday attempting to rescind the FCC's Net Neutrality rules. On Friday at the conference, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi condemned the vote. "No one should be guarding the gate on the Internet," Pelosi said.  Read more here!