{"id":668,"date":"2006-05-25T01:22:44","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T01:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=668"},"modified":"2006-05-25T01:22:44","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T01:22:44","slug":"accesselujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/25\/accesselujah\/","title":{"rendered":"accesselujah!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"access-elujah.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/access-elujah.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\nif:book took to the streets yesterday at the National Day of Out(r)age protest outside Verizon world headquarters in downtown Manhattan. Here&#8217;s Reverend Billy, a local performance artist\/activist who styles himself as a televangelist (he&#8217;s sort of annoying, but entertaining in small doses). His cry: &#8220;accesselujah!&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"flip bell.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/flip%20bell.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><br \/>\nThe crowd was quite small,  fenced in along a single block outside the towering Verizon building. A few handfuls of grassroots media folks and other miscellanies gathered to protest the odious <a href=\"http:\/\/saveaccess.org\/HR5252\">COPE HR5252<\/a> legislation, which threatens net neutrality and PEG (Public, Educational and Governmental) Access channels on TV. The mission is to rally one person for every  telecom\/cableco lobbying dollar. Judging by yesterday&#8217;s turnout, things aren&#8217;t looking so hot.<br \/>\nI kinda liked this sign though:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"verizon protest.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/verizon%20protest.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if:book took to the streets yesterday at the National Day of Out(r)age protest outside Verizon world headquarters in downtown Manhattan. Here&#8217;s Reverend Billy, a local performance artist\/activist who styles himself as a televangelist (he&#8217;s sort of annoying, but entertaining in small doses). His cry: &#8220;accesselujah!&#8221; The crowd was quite small, fenced in along a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,1285,1531,1950],"tags":[2723],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cope","category-net_neutrality","category-protest","category-verizon","tag-net_neutrality-verizon-protest-cope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}