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v1 v2 1 I represent May First/People Link, a membership organization comprised of over 400 progressive organizations and an additional 100 individual activists . Our primary political work is distributing among our members the resources of the Internet and enhancing their use of those resources inorganizing and communications work.1 I represent May First/People Link, a membership organization comprised of over 400 progressive organizations and an additional 100 individual activists, most based in the United States. Our primary political work is acquiring, developing and sharing among our members the resources of the Internet to enhance the scope and effectiveness of their organizing and communications work. 2 2 3 Recent events have made clear the importance Internet technology has in facilitating organization and coordination of political movements, most recently the Spring protests that have swept across the Middle East. The human race has invented and developed the Internet for just that purpose: communication and coordination during a period when such communication and coordination is fundamental to the survival of people.3 Recent events have made clear the importance Internet technology has in facilitating organization and coordination of political movements, most recently the Spring protests that have swept the Middle East. But the contribution Internet communications makes to a better, more democratic and freer world has been dramatized every day for over a decade and that contribution grows every day. With the Internet isolation is impossible, repression and oppression cannot be hidden, truth bursts through the corporate spins and government cover-ups and people can communicate, explain their lives, share their lessons and support each other. 4 4 5 That role and purpose depends on the principles which have driven the development of the Internet: free and complete access for all people in all countries on earth; absolute privacy and security; all basic software that is free and based on open source; complete net neutrality and equality of Internet functionality; 5 The human race invented and developed the Internet to facilitate the world-wide communication and coordination so necessary for our survival. 6 7 Its success in fulfilling its purpose depends on the principles which have driven its development: free and complete access for all people in all countries on earth; absolute privacy and security; basic software that is free, completely accessible and based on open source; complete net neutrality and equality of Internet functionality; and the complete access of censorship over the Internet of any kind. These are the world's communication priorities. They feed democracy because democracy flows from this information. They feed development because without basic infrastructural development, these goals cannot be achieved. They enrich the potential for coping with such challenges as climate change because people can share their environmental situations and the remedies they are developing. And the nurture the potential for world peace because, when people speak to each other over the din of government statements and corporate greed, we can reach agreements that benefit us all. 8 9 The governments of the world must unit in supporting these principles. The people of the world are uniting to fight for them. We are proud to be among those people.