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Net Neutrality and Broadband Access: A Civil Rights Issue

"Every man is our brother, and every man's burden is our own. Where poverty exists, all are poorer. Where hate flourishes, all are corrupted. Where injustice reigns, all are unequal."
- Whitney Moore Young Jr.

Max Eternity, Truthout: "The term really refers to the 'gap between those who benefit by the digital economy and those who do not' ... defining what's become known as the digital divide and prompting Nelson Mandela at the Telecom 95 event to say, 'The capacity to communicate will almost certainly be a key human right,' and add that, 'eliminating the distinction between the information-rich and information-poor is also critical to eliminating economic and other inequalities.'"

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"Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why"

Thom Hartmann, Truthout: "This is not the budget deficit that everybody is so hysterical about in the press, and which would go to zero over the next six years if the Obama administration simply let the Bush tax cuts expire in their entirety. Instead, Fletcher is talking about the trade deficit, the difference between what we buy from the world and what we sell to the world."

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