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Nov. 3, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Havern School. Only 3 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Havern School, an independent school for students with learning disabilities, relies on affordable, reliable Internet from Mobile Citizen. Teaching methods at Havern School rely on repetition and tools that support repetitive learning methods. Internet

Nov. 2, 2015 John Schwartz, the founder and president of Mobile Citizen, is slated to appear on the Thom Hartmann show today to discuss Sprint’s plan to shut off broadband access to more than 300,000 vulnerable Americans this Friday. John will provide background on the current situation, as well as updates on a new national

November 2, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Académie Lafayette in Kansas City. Only 4 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Many Académie Lafayette teachers travel from other countries to teach at the French immersion charter school, arriving in Kansas City without basic needs like housing. Hotspots from Mobile Citizen give these teachers immediate Internet access — something they

Nov. 2, 2015 The Sprint Corporation will have to answer to a Massachusetts state court judge tomorrow on its plan to shut off broadband access to more than 300,000 vulnerable Americans this Friday. The hearing is in response to the emergency injunction we, along with Mobile Beacon, filed last week. For more information, read our

Nov. 1, 2015 The nonprofits that run Mobile Citizen and Mobile Beacon launched a new national advertising campaign questioning Sprint’s commitment to closing the digital divide. Sprint’s promotional materials position the company as a champion of the digital divide claiming “At Sprint, we believe Internet access should be a basic human right,” while at the

October 30, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Central Pennsylvania Digital Learning Foundation. Only 7 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. When families with students enrolled at Central Pennsylvania Digital Learning Foundation can’t afford Internet access, the cyber school provides affordable solutions through Mobile Citizen. According to Technology Coordinator Micheal Tambellini, the number of families requiring connectivity assistance is growing. “We have

October 29, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center in Cleveland. Only 8 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Asbury Senior Computer Community Center (ASC³) is a nonprofit inter-generational learning center bridging the digital divide in Cleveland’s inner-city communities. The center provides tech-based education, training and resources to adults with

October 27, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features PCs for People, a Twin Cities-based nonprofit organization committed to digital inclusion. Only 10 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Since its formation in 1998, PCs for People has distributed over 40,000 computers to low-income families. In 2012, the organization established a partnership with Mobile Citizen and

October 26, 2015 Today’s Mobile Citizen story features Herron High School, a public charter school in Indianapolis. Only 11 days left till the shutdown. Sign our petition today. Katie Dorsey is an academic advisor at Herron High School, where almost 10 percent of the school’s 700+ students were named AP scholars last year.  Most of the honor students have home Internet access; however,

October 26, 2015 Mobile Citizen and Mobile Beacon filed an emergency request with a Massachusetts state court on Friday asking a judge to stop Sprint from its plan to shut off broadband access to more than 300,000 vulnerable Americans on November 6. A hearing on the preliminary injunction has been scheduled for noon on Tuesday