Philadelphia The room had forty-seven chairs on the first floor of the John F. Kennedy Mental Health building where the Philadelphia Unemployment Project has offices on the eleventh floor. Craig Robbins, twenty-five-year ACORN veteran as a head organizer and lastly as deputy field director, now on the staff of PUP, had done most of …
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Philly and Seattle Setting New Franchise Standards for Comcast
Pittsburgh Philadelphia and Seattle City Councils, along with the community-based pressure pushing them, are proving that there is still a lot of leverage and some bite past the bark in using cable franchise renewal agreements to wrest concessions from the arrogant, monopolistic Comcast. We have been tussling with Comcast for years now over their half-hearted …
A Test is Coming in Philly on Whether or Not Comcast Has Learned a Lesson
Montreal Fortune, the business magazine, ran a prominent article in their June 1st edition on Comcast with the title, “How to Lose Friends and Influence,” essentially detailing how their bully-boy ways, indifference to customers and community, and just plain arrogance had been key factors in subverting their monopoly efforts to merge with Times-Warner Cable. Having …
Philadelphia is ‘Very Angry’ with Comcast
New Orleans Just to be clear. It’s not just me, ACORN International, Local 100 United Labor Unions, and the Arkansas Community Organizations who are ripping mad at Comcast for high rates, bad service, and making a cruel joke out of the “internet essentials” program rather than using it to help lower income families crawl …
An Insider Hits the Nakedness of the Charter School Empire
New Orleans Everywhere around the country, charter schools and their operators are poking through the concrete of school yards like weeds. Billionaires and beleaguered Mayors and school superintendents often herald their potential as a way out of their own gnarled path of over grown capacity and underfunded programs. Huge fights in Philadelphia and now Chicago are …