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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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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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Comcast Using Deceptive Advertising, Bait-and-Switch

Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing Organizing January 21, 2012 by digital

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 …

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Embracing Your Percentage

ACORN Citizen Wealth January 15, 2012 by digital

New Orleans  The Times ran a story that tried to put a face on the 1% and encourage us to embrace our inner percentage. There are two ways to approach looking at these numbers around the country, and both perspectives can offer some insight to US political views. On the one hand it lends some vague …

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