#Internet4All is our right, not a luxury. Learn how @Comcast is failing Black & brown people, what we're doing about it, and how you can fight for your community's connections along with us: https://t.co/AJMYMAoSvf
Police fund surveillance in many ways - including through grants, foundations, asset forfeiture, donations, kickbacks, and by using surveillance equipment the rest of us install. Read all about it here: https://t.co/Ikt4VSnweh
Katie Hearn, Detroit Community Technology Project: The digital divide isn't an accident. Rather, it's the inevitable outcome of deliberate disinvestment in Black and brown communities by tech monopolies. #internetisessential
Angela Cobian (cont'd): We are no longer in an era where internet access is a luxury for our students and their families, it must be understood as a fundamental right. #internetisessential
Franca Muller Paz: Students kicked off internet 8 or 9 times a day, can't get their cameras to work, struggle to stay connected. "That's what education looks like right now" #InternetIsEssential#Internet4All https://t.co/83ymX1Sozs
Ciara Hart, South Louisiana Coalition for Education: We discovered 25% of Louisiana families don't have quality internet. Poor households have dismal internet. Here to bear witness that all areas are impacted and vulnerable kids lack what they need to live a full equitable life.
.@comcast threatened to cut off 1000s of Baltimore families unless the district paid an almost $700k bill. @comcast claimed their discount service was high speed, but these students testify: they have to tether to their phones or get kicked off class daily #internetisessential
Tune in NOW to the National Press Conference on how Comcast has failed our communities and why #InternetIsEssential for everyone https://t.co/83ymX1Sozs
📢TODAY! Comcast has failed our communities, so we’re taking them to school to learn exactly why the #InternetIsEssential. Head to our FB page at 4 ET to learn how we’re fighting together across the country for #Internet4All: https://t.co/1g6GliTwZq
Our senior organizer/founder of PTJ @DevrenW is up for a https://t.co/ELLNZjVA2F award as Impact Leader of the Year! Vote for Devren!! https://t.co/6rlcZiCh7F
The problem with stories like these is that the blame and the solutions are both wrong.
We should be outraged that millions of people can't afford to pay the high prices that Comcast charges in Salinas, CA.
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Educator and activist @zfwright is rightfully pointing out that more than 15 M students will start school this year without internet access. #LoggedOut National Day of Action