Alberto Siri is an MNN producer who's taken our videoblogging class and has created not just one blog, but several. A fitness trainer by profession, Alberto uses his blogs to demonstrate exercises as well as to promote his business, Serious Fitness.

Watch and learn as Alberto demonstrates a waist-shaping exercise from his videoblog,

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In the last few months, Congress has escalated its attack on immigrants, introducing a number of bills in the name of cracking down on illegal immigrants and "the war on terrorism." Congress is preparing to overhaul the nation's immigration laws that would impact 11 million undocumented immigrants living in this country.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the immigration bill, known as the temporary guest worker program. It appears to allow undocumented immigrants living in this country a chance to work here legally, but restrictions seem so strong that it's not clear that any of the 11 million people currently here would be able to benefit and gain citizenship. If passed, this law would not protect the rights of immigrant workers, provide a path to citizenship, nor allow a realistic path for future flow of immigrants.

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The New York City Council voted on May 10th to "Keep it Local." The full Council unanimously called on the U.S. Congress NOT to pass the draconian new telecom bill that seeks to strip local municipalities of their authority over cable franchising and to limit funding and channel capacity for Public, Educational, and Government (PEG) stations.

This is a HUGE victory and sends a powerful message in support of community media and local democracy all across the country!!

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On May 24th, many cities around the country decided to show their outrage at the greedy telecoms such as AT&T, Verizon, Bell South, and Qwest. These companies are spending $1 million dollars a week to buy votes in Congress for their deregulatory legislation known as the COPE bill. COPE, which stands for Communications Opportunity Protection and Enchancement claims to offer more choices and more competion, but will in fact endager Public Access centers around the country.

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As many of you may know, thousands of people gathered in downtown Brooklyn to protest the newly passed bill H.R. 4437, making it a felony to be in the US without the correct paperwork. This bill also makes it a felony to help, shield, or offer support to illegal immigrants. And yes, this includes many non-profit organizations as well as religious organizations across the country that run a vast network of social service programs offering food and emergency shelter, child care, counseling services, job training, and other aid to immigrants and refugees

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Your community cable channels (public, educational, governmental) are under threat by pending legislation in the House and Senate.

Community Access TV is a place to see and hear local viewpoints and diverse ideas and cultural expressions. This is where every person can express themselves through the making and airing of their own television show.

Nowadays commercial media interests sometimes argue that we don't need Community Access TV anymore because there are lots of commercial channels to choose from. This is like arguing that because a town has a bookstore it no longer needs a public library. As the media becomes a bigger part of our lives the public needs more Community Access TV (and other forms of non-commercial publlic "Greenspace" media - such as local low power radio, and publicly accessible Internet), not less of it!

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Produced by John Ryan, with guest Thomas Taylor (March 2006). Project from MNN Express Class.

Mockumentary of a ficticious music legend. A student project from MNN's Express Studio class.

NODE101 took place on the weekend of August 12. Many NODES around the globe hosted different events. From screenings to BBQ's to meet-ups, the goal was to spread the joys of videoblogging. At MNN we hosted the NODE101 NYC event.

What is NODE 101?
NODE 101 is an open source collaborative project created to teach and spread videoblogging worldwide. At MNN we are committed to the teaching of videoblogging.

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You've heard it, you've loved it, you've hated it -- now see the music video, playing now on MNN channels TWC 34, 56, 67, 67 and RCN 83, 84, 85, 86 and live on our website at MNN.org.

Edited by our very own Master Editor, Rahum Brown