SchoolWalkouts.info has legal information for students in southern California who are being disciplined them for walking out during the immigration protests.

The National Lawyers Guild and other local legal organizations have established this web site in order to assist students, teachers and parents who have been affected by the recent student walk-outs in Los Angeles and the surrounding area.

Before you do anything else, go get any papers you have related to an incident (truancy ticket, suspension, or other) and put them in a safe place. You will need them!

This web site is designed so that you can both learn about your rights regarding school matters, and also let us know of problems you may have had because of the recent walk-outs. We cannot promise to represent you, but for WALK-OUT related matters we can try to connect you with an attorney who is available to help you handle your truancy, suspension or other school discipline matter.

The NLG is savvy, experienced, and can most definitely can help.

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The once obscure topic of Net neutrality is now front page, lead story in the Sunday LA Times.

Phone, cable may charge dot-coms that want to race along the Internet.

That headline is a bit misleading. It’s more that the cabelcos want to charge more and give the same speed or worse, slow everyone else down. And should the decades-old tenet of Net neutrality be voided by these greedheads, then in a few years, who knows what could happen. Maybe they’ll decide they don’t like political blogs, or sign a deal with Google and block Yahoo, or jack prices up to nosebleed levels.

Do you trust ATT to do the right thing and protect the consumer and keep the Net open? I don’t.

None of this happens in other countries, where the Net is seen as a public good and more protected from interference by private companies. Worse, the US, supposed high tech leader of the world, is now something like 14th in quality of net access. In France, for example, citizens get vastly faster transfer rates than here, and pay much less.

Consumers and Net users gain nothing and stand to lose much should the cablecos win here. This is predatory capitalism, attempting to enrich the few while making things worse for everyone else.

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We are not ok

Via Mark at WetBankGuide.

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