Advocates for a public, high-speed community network for Northampton Massachusetts
We thought this was interesting: In Chicopee, Massachusetts, City Councilor Joel McAuliffe is giving constituents from across the city a chance to express their support for municipal broadband with an online petition…and people are responding. As of this writing, 517 people have signed Chicopee’s petition. You can view it here.
Hey! We’ve changed our logo! Thanks to Davin at Paradise Copies (they are doing our brochures, petitions and sign for free!) we now have an even fancier logo! We should have the printed products tomorrow, which means we should be able to do in person outreach as early as next week! The logo integrates a …
We passed 100 signatures! Our petition on iPetition.com has reached 135 signatures as of this morning. Thanks to all who have signed the petition and to those promoting it among their families and friends. Our next goal is 1000 signatures. With 28,000 people in Northampton, reaching 1000 means about 3% of the population has signed …
We approved an online petition! (See last post.) It took a while because we had to find the right petition site (some like moveon.org might be viewed as too partisan) and it had to have the right features, including privacy features. We selected iPetition.com. To make it behave like our proposed paper petition we were …
Live or work in Northampton? Want the city to create a community network that should save us at least 30% compared to what Comcast/Xfinity charges? Then sign our petition to the mayor and City Council! PLEASE SHARE WIDELY with your Northampton friends and neighbors. Here’s the short code: https://goo.gl/hfWMJA.