Thanks to the hundreds of phone calls of net neutrality supporters from CREDO members like you, FCC Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has agreed to re-regulate broadband Internet so the FCC has regulatory power to protect net neutrality.

It’s an important step toward victory in our fight to save an open and free Internet, and it’s thanks in part to the pressure of CREDO Action members like you. Our friend Tim Karr is campaign director at Free Press, a nonprofit that leads the fight to save the Internet (and an organization that CREDO members have been supporting with their phone bills for years). He wanted us to share this statement with CREDO Action members:

The push by CREDO activists, netroots and progressive media has pulled the FCC from the brink. FCC Chairman Genachowski was about to abandon Net Neutrality. But after hearing hundreds of calls from CREDO members he regained his senses.

Now we’re facing a long fight as the agency revisits a Net Neutrality option that will give it the power to stop phone and cable companies from blocking our access to information online. Thanks to CREDO activists, we’re now cautiously optimistic that this FCC is getting back on track and will give Internet users the Net Neutrality protections we need.

Thanks for everything you do to fight for net neutrality. We will continue to keep you updated on the most effective ways to take urgent action and save the Internet.

Matt Lockshin, Campaign Manager
CREDO Action

IMMIGRATION — PHOENIX SUNS WILL WEAR ‘LOS SUNS’ JERSEYS IN PART TO PROTEST ‘FLAWED’ IMMIGRATION LAW: The Phoenix Suns basketball franchise announced that players will be wearing “Los Suns” jerseys tonight for Game 2 of its playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs. The game, which coincides with Cinco de Mayo, will be played in Phoenix. Team owner and registered Republican Robert Sarver said the jerseys will “honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona and our nation.” Sarver also made it clear that the selection of the Spanish-language jersey is a political statement against Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law. “However intended, the result of passing this law is that our basic principles of equal rights and protection under the law are being called into question,” Sarver said. He added that while he understood the “frustration with the federal government’s failure to deal with the issue of illegal immigration,” the state’s law is “flawed.” The team’s star point guard Steve Nash said separately, “I think the law is very misguided. I think it is unfortunately to the detriment to our society and our civil liberties.” “I think the law obviously can target opportunities for racial profiling,” Nash added. The Center for American Progress Action Fund’s Matthew Yglesias noted that the Nash, along with the Spurs’ Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker, are all immigrants. “In general, it says good things about the National Basketball Association that foreigners with top-notch basketball skills generally want to come here and play. And the flow of foreign talent to our shores makes the NBA a better product — indeed, an iconic global brand that’s marketed internationally as a U.S. export,” Yglesias wrote. Meanwhile, the Major League Baseball Players Association has also called for repealing the law and a number of Latino baseball players have spoken out against it as well.