Media Action Marin

“…A high-speed broadband system isn't a hot dog stand or boat-rental shop, a restaurant lease or a permit to operate a taxicab or deliver cable TV… Those are contracts and franchises. This is a piece of municipal infrastructure; it's more like the roads that cars and buses use to carry people around town or the pipes that bring water to our houses or the public schools that educate our kids or the emergency communications system that takes the call when we dial 911…

This is part of Marin County’s future, part of its economic development, part of how its residents will participate in the political debate, part of how we will all learn and think and talk to each other. This is the new public square, the new commons…”

----- based on editorial by Tim Redmond, Editor, the Bay Guardian 7/11/07

MISSION OF COMMUNITY MEDIA CENTER OF MARIN

The bylaws of the Community Media Center of Marin state that it’s formed:

(a) To support, manage, produce and distribute, non-commercial community based media programs;

(b) To develop and promote the concept of community (public, educational, governmental and institutional) access to existing and future communications media;

(c) To establish, maintain and operate one or more media access centers.