Phil Donahue, whom we lost last week, put honest, antiwar, anticorporate, antiracist, pro-feminist voices on millions of U.S. television screens for decades. Then he was banished by a corporate cartel that had monopolized the airwaves.

Social media provides an illusion of diversity, while establishing new monopolistic gatekeepers. Google was ruled an illegal monopoly in federal court earlier this month.

Media is only one area where corporate monopolization has taken over. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan is the strongest U.S. government official against this trend that we've seen in a very long time.

But Big Tech billionaire and Microsoft board member Reid Hoffman has donated tens of millions of dollars to Democrats in recent years, and he wants Khan fired.

We have to counter corporate power with people power. Click here to sign -- and ask everyone you can to sign -- a petition to the White House from RootsAction, Demand Progress, and allies demanding that Lina Khan be kept at work and encouraged.

Background:

How TV Icon Phil Donahue Brought Antiwar Voices to the Airwaves (Until MSNBC Fired Him)
Phil Donahue Changed My Life – and Millions of Others