WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
July 10, 2021 Pearl River President Biden in a new executive order seems to be signally to a wide-range of corporations and industries, Congress, and the American people that if he can’t get the job done with a well targeted shot, then he’ll try a scattershot approach and see how many targets he can bring …
New Orleans For several years, we have bombarded the FCC with complaints from our members in Little Rock, Houston, Shreveport and elsewhere about the travesty of Comcast’s so-called “internet essentials” program. Some will remember that a condition of the toothless FCC’s approval of Comcast’s giant acquisition of NBC/Universal was Comcast’s creation of a $10 internet access …
New Orleans Simple fact: the Justice department cannot allow Comcast to buy Times-Warner cable operations. No way, no how! In fact given the level of untrammeled, anti-competitive monopoly already rampant in the cable industry, which is directly responsible for both widening the internet divide and slowing down internet speeds to globally uncompetitive and exorbitantly …