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 …
Category: Community Organizing
Comcast, Internet, Arrogance, and Free Speech
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 …
Rethinking Occupy Meeting Process in the Neighborhood
New Orleans There’s nothing like watching a neighborhood civic association meeting to make one blush at having ever critiqued the sometimes maddening consensus process of the Occupy movement. Having watched several Occupy meetings weather the arduous process of coming to consensus, I had almost concluded that despite the way the process has defined much about …