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Lin Ping Reprint of New York Times article March 19, 2012 BEIJING —Liu Ping, a rights activist who has angered officials in China with her advocacy of free elections and support of labor and women’s rights issues, has been missing since early this month after she was detained [...] Team ACORN Paterno Paolo Guarnaccia and Astrid V. Anselmi Paterno After days of heated discussions the leaders of La Citta finally saw that the sides might be divided on candidates for mayor but could be united on a democratic process for selecting the candidate. Being able to put aside individual differences and preferences for the [...] New Orleans Among other things Comcast provides internet service. As we have discussed previously, they promised to provide internet access to lower income families for $9.95 and connect the same families to a computer for $150. Comcast called the program Internet Essentials. They claim to be proud of it. We don’t know why? In Houston a delegation [...] New Orleans The FCC made a big, big deal a few weeks ago about the fact that Cox Cable and Time-Warner Cable had both voluntarily agreed to provide low cost internet access to low income families. The basics were $9.95 per month and a $150 refurbished computer. The agreement they were trumpeting was based on [...] New Orleans I had offered the Occupy NOLA folks a place to meet at various times during their occupation of the desolate park space in front of New Orleans City Hall, but it was only by showing up on the night that they were being evicted from the Avery Alexander / Duncan Plaza and inviting [...] New Orleans Support is increasingly lining up in New York City and elsewhere not simply for living wage ordinances, but more specifically for a more targeted type of living wage program where public dollars are partnered with private development. These so-called “business assistance” living wage ordinances that also draw from experiences with “community benefit agreements” [...] |
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