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Fight For Philly takes on Comcast, Philly school funding with bologna sandwiches | Philadelphia Public School Notebook

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Fight For Philly takes on Comcast, Philly school funding with bologna sandwiches

by thenotebook on Aug 02 2013 Posted in Latest news
Photo: Kimberly Paynter/WHYY
Tina Kluetmeier, mother of 2 in Philadelphia, protests corporate tax breaks at the Comcast Center Friday. 
by Shannon McDonald for NewsWorks
There's no such thing as a free lunch. Unless you were outside the Comcast Center in Center City Philadelphia Friday afternoon.
Fight for Philly handed out bologna sandwiches "to symbolize Comcast giving out baloney to Philadelphia citizens while taking their own free lunch in the form of tax breaks like a building abatement and loopholes like the Delaware loophole."
The sandwiches were part of a rally to demand fair funding for Philly schools, and a shot at Comcast exec David Cohen.

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