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New Orleans For a change we’re winning one against the right wing strategy of progressive institution defunding. This is a Texas-style bare knuckles dispute, and I’m so proud of the way Cecile Richards stepped into the ring here that I could just spit! The Susan Komen Foundation folks are headquartered in Dallas so they should’ve known [...] New Orleans The combined meetings and negotiations with Comcast representatives about their “internet essentials” program to provide low cost access and computers to lower income families seems to have finally provoked the company into putting out some numbers on their performance. That’s the good news. Reading the numbers is the bad news.
New Orleans It was shocking today to read that the Komen Foundation, well known for its ubiquitous “pink” crusade against breast cancer, in the most craven way caved into right-wing pressure and unilaterally defunded Planned Parenthood. Komen has been increasingly controversial in the anti-cancer health movement for emphasizing marketing and branding over research and cures, [...] New Orleans The Federal Trade Commission stepped up to the play in behalf of citizens/consumers yesterday and finally put a boot on the butt of scumbag, lying debt collection operations with a $2.5 million fine levied on Asset Acceptance of Warren, Michigan. The Times reported the following: The company’s collectors also failed to inform consumers that paying [...] New Orleans We had a good, but troubling, meeting with organizers from Houston, Little Rock, Shreveport, New Orleans and elsewhere about how to proceed to lower the digital divide and access lower cost internet services, promised, but not delivered, by Comcast and other companies. By mid-February we will move forward to either involve the FCC more [...] New Orleans When a delegation of members from ACTION United showed up with baloney sandwiches at the Pittsburgh City Council meeting, the Council asked them to address the body and expressed concern with them about the difficulty that low income families are having making Comcast’s promises of greater access to the Internet a reality. The [...] New Orleans Another day, another dollar in Comcast land where it turns out in their view of the world, no promises need be kept, customers should pay and not be heard, government is only for them, not for the people, and if they say it’s good, then, damn, it must be good: Comcast-in-wonderland! In Shreveport as [...] New Orleans Comcast deigned to meet with representatives of Local 100 United Labor Unions in their offices in Houston on Monday. Once again they tried to slather the butter on the bread with stories of their “good intentions” about internet access for the poor. Once again they promised that they would get back to us. [...] |
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