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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".

Tag: digital divide

Comcast, Internet, Arrogance, and Free Speech

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing January 25, 2012January 25, 2012 by digital

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 …

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Is Cable Offer of Internet Access for Low Income Families Real?

Citizen Wealth November 9, 2011 by wade

New Orleans The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced with great fanfare a program that would supposedly reduce the “digital divide” between poorer families and the rest of the highly connected rest of the country.  Sounds good, but reading the fine print on some of these deals, makes me pretty skeptical, or at least of a …

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