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Vermont Community Access Media is a non profit community media and technology center located in the south end of Burlington, Vermont. VCAM’s mission is to foster free speech and public dialog by providing easy access to the electronic media to all citizens of the VCAM service area on a nondiscriminatory basis for nonprofit and noncommercial purposes. VCAM operates both a public access and a government access cable channel, and we provide equipment and facility rentals and channel time to any VCAM user, for any noncommercial purpose, free of charge.

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Public, educational and government (“PEG”) channels permit schools, governments, individuals and groups to provide and receive information about local events, emergencies, and issues. The channels encourage creation of local programming by civic groups and non-profits, cover government and school meetings, and promote localism and civic engagement.. The CAP Act responds to four immediate threats to PEG and these critical local communications. -Alliance for Community Media

Community Access Preservation Act (pdf) / CAP Act Summary (pdf)

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Citizen Media
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Citizen Media, Participatory Media, or Democratic Media refers to any form of content produced by private citizens, which has as its goal to inform and empower all members of society. This includes inclusive production models such as public access, community technology centers, digital storytelling, e-democracy, citizen journalism, zines, Independent Media Centers, blogs, vlogs (video blogs), and podcasting (audio blogs).

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