Caption Action 2: Members needed!

G'day Everyone!

I was surfing around today and found the previous site of which I'm a member of. It's the Caption Action 2. http://apps.facebook.com/causes/306249It's more of a cause on Facebook, but it's an important cause among the Deaf Community. (blogspot site: http://captionaction2.blogspot.com/)
WHY?

In the early 1980's, when captioning started on TV, we all cheered that we could hear the words that were on the programs. Then Caption Action 1 began to promote the need to have home video to be closed captioned. That movement was successful long ago. Today that movement continues as video continues to change from tapes to DVDs and blue-ray cds happen.

But now, television is starting to move to the Internet. Why do you think several months ago that television ended the analog age and switched to the new digital age? In some places, it's also high Def-TV as well. At this point, cable companies are beginning to test several channels on Internet. Do these channels have Closed Captioning? In some cases, no.

I asked several friends of how they feel of having television being on the Internet? Some have said it's a weird experience. Others say that you have to either buy a new flat screen TV or attempt to modify your old ray tube TV. But some feel that the age of the television should stay on the TV set and not on the Internet.

But progress is progress. If cable companies get their way of shifting TV signals to the Internet and the lack of closed captioning happens, the deaf community would be at a disadvantage again.
To this moment, we need more members of congress to sponsor the H.R. 3101: Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009!

We realize that congress faces many major issues in this time of the congressional year. But in order to make it a reality of law through the Obama administration, we need you to convince more congressional people to support this issue. We need more people to join this important cause on facebook! We need more important people to talk about it, blog about it, and share about it!

Today I done my part. I posted about it. I joined the cause. Most of all, I'm going to ask my state and local Representatives to support caption action 2.

You, my dear reader, I ask you to consider to join this cause. Let your voice be heard. Let there be Caption Action 2: Captions on the Internet to happen!

Semper FI!