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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".

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Short Steps on Long March to Close Digital Divide: Rogers Breakthrough!

ACORN International Canada Citizen Wealth June 7, 2013June 7, 2013 by digital

New Orleans  When it comes to creating some form of internet equity so that lower income families have access to the internet and can overcome the digital divide, everyone “gets” it, but no one wants to do what it takes to make it happen.             President Obama on his way to meet the Chinese Premier …

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FCC’s Connect2Compete Disconnected at Cox Cable & Payday Embarrasses Chase

Ideas and Issues February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 by digital

New Orleans    Remember the poor…low and moderate income families who will always be with us?  Well, more evidence keeps piling up that when it comes to internet access and a lifeline to the 21st Century, the “volunteer” efforts by the big cable companies are continuing to make the FCC’s claims of lowering the digital …

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New York Times Whitewashes Comcast; Is Connect2Compete a Ghost PR Program?

Ideas and Issues January 21, 2013 by digital

New Orleans   In an amazingly shallow, puff piece that might almost have come out of the Comcast marketing and public relations department, “Mixed Response to Comcast in Expanding Net Access” by Amy Chozick about the only dark spot in this incredible whitewash. Comcast set up shop in Chicago in May 2011, a few months after its …

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