Why are we being left behind? Nationally, it might be difficult to get total support for laws that would make Internet access a human right. Locally, in Washington, D.C., the challenge is even greater. However, internationally, this view is shared by the United Nations, which is making a big push to deem Internet access a human right.
In June 2009, I was actually relieved that France's highest court declared Internet access a human right as reported by the UK Daily Mail. In August of the same year, it was reported that the United States is the only industrialized nation without a national policy to promote high-speed broadband, according to various studies released by the Communications Workers of America.
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Friday, April 22, 2011
Reducing a 25 percent unemployment rate in Ward 8.
While driving into the District and listening to the radio, I heard Mayor Vincent Gray state that the 25% unemployment rate in Ward 8 will be reduced by the jobs created by the pending Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) new headquarters.
According to the National Capital Planning Commission, the construction phase of the plan will result in the redevelopment of the 176-acre West Campus and a portion of the 280-acre East Campus of the St. Elizabeths Hospital in southeast Washington, D.C.
Yet so far, as the City Paper on March 11 reported, the massive West Campus construction phase of the $3.4 billion Department of Homeland Security project has employed DC residents as new hires at a rate of only 35.4%. This is far below the 51 percent hire rate required by the First Source program. Donald Temple, a civil rights attorney, told thefightback.org, “You can’t build a [$3.4 billion] project in this community and then tell us that we can’t participate in the benefits of that. This is not South Africa and apartheid. This is Washington, D.C…”
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According to the National Capital Planning Commission, the construction phase of the plan will result in the redevelopment of the 176-acre West Campus and a portion of the 280-acre East Campus of the St. Elizabeths Hospital in southeast Washington, D.C.
Yet so far, as the City Paper on March 11 reported, the massive West Campus construction phase of the $3.4 billion Department of Homeland Security project has employed DC residents as new hires at a rate of only 35.4%. This is far below the 51 percent hire rate required by the First Source program. Donald Temple, a civil rights attorney, told thefightback.org, “You can’t build a [$3.4 billion] project in this community and then tell us that we can’t participate in the benefits of that. This is not South Africa and apartheid. This is Washington, D.C…”
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Monday, April 18, 2011
Gerald A. Lawson: Video Game Legend
On Thursday, April 14, 2011, while facilitating my Digital Media Literacy-E3D class in Washington, D.C., one of my male bloggers began speaking aloud while reading and posting. “Patrick, I did not know a black man created the first home video game system with interchangeable game cartridges.”
Within the next few days, I received a call from my male cousin stating almost the exact same thing. He added that I should write an article because not many people know about this fact. His work help launch Atari like companies to a new level which is evident from the among of video games that was sold since his concept was releashed. Sadly, heaven has called another self-taught engineer back home. (Read more)
Within the next few days, I received a call from my male cousin stating almost the exact same thing. He added that I should write an article because not many people know about this fact. His work help launch Atari like companies to a new level which is evident from the among of video games that was sold since his concept was releashed. Sadly, heaven has called another self-taught engineer back home. (Read more)
Sunday, April 17, 2011
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