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Monthly Archives: March 2011
The TAO of organizing (via NewUnionism’s Blog)
Very interesting and valuable contribution to union organizing! Rex Lai is one of that rare and wonderful breed: a union organizer with the chops to turn practice into theory. His words below are all the more valuable because the practice … Continue reading
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Small Change | The New Yorker
It is time to re-post Gladwell’s controversial piece and rethink his argument: Annals of Innovation Small Change Why the revolution will not be tweeted. by Malcolm Gladwell October 4, 2010 Social media can’t provide what social change has always required. … Continue reading
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Public Community Partnerships in Peru and Uruguay | Transnational Institue
http://www.tni.org/article/public-community-partnerships-peru-and-uruguay Philipp Terhorst talks to Alicia Araujo, Luis Isarra and Adriana Marquisio from the Platform for Public Community Partnerships of the Americas Water Justice March 2011 Citizen struggles for public water in Peru and Uruguay share many similarities and a … Continue reading
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Business unionism vs workplace democracy? (via NewUnionism’s Blog)
Wanda Pasz, the author of the article featured below, is a 30 year veteran of North America's labour-management system. She has worked as both a union and management representative and a labour relations mediator – and is currently a writer … Continue reading
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Movement as Network | Alchemy of Change
This is a paper I published in 2004 called “Movement as Network: Connecting People and Organizations in the Environmental Movement.” Below is a synopsis of its core ideas. You can download the full paper in PDF format. Movement as Network: … Continue reading
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Organized Networks
Ned Rossiter, Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions, NAi Publishers, Rotterdam and the Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2006. ISBN 90-5662-526-8 about the book: The celebration of network cultures as open, decentralized, and horizontal all too easily forgets … Continue reading
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Some thoughts on workplace groups | Netzwerk IT
Translater’s Note To understand the nuances of this document it helps to know what Netzwerk IT is. Network IT, to use its English name, is a platform for the employed and unemployed. Individuals, groups of employees and campaigns can communicate … Continue reading
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Press Release – Joint Spring Social Conference
On the 10 and 11th of March, representatives of trade unions, both national and European, NGOs and social networks from 15 EU countries (from both East and West) got together for the first Spring Social Conference. The conference aims to … Continue reading
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Crack capitalism or reclaim the state (via Transnational Institute)
In a fascinating debate, two leading Left intellectuals John Holloway and Hilary Wainwright debate the potential for democratising the state, how labour can be empowered to enact change, and how capitalism is best confronted. Download Crack capitalism or reclaim the … Continue reading
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Wikileaks, Karl Marx and You | Liberty & Solidairty
Liberty & Solidarity An opinion/analysis piece by a supporter of L&S Despite blanket media coverage of Wikileaks and Julian Assange, there has been little discussion of the fact that Assange is merely one leader within a large and … Continue reading
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Connections are Different than Relationships / Alchemy of Change
Excellent insights on how organised and peer networking, if it focuses on altering the existing dominant ‘power relations’, would eventually bring about a radical social change. The key is doing opposite of, say, what Bilderberg, a ‘Netarchical’ hegemonic power network, aims … Continue reading
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Bridging Weak and Strong Ties, Alchemy of Change (by Gideon Rosenblatt)
Poor Malcolm Gladwell. The world famous author of Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers just unleashed the fury of the Twittersphere by writing a New Yorker piece called “Small Change: why the revolution will not be tweeted” where he makes the … Continue reading
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Networks and States (via Spinuzzi)
Networks and States: The Global Politics of Internet Governance By Milton L. Mueller A few years ago, I read Milton Mueller’s excellent book Universal Service, which became an important resource in my 2008 book. So when I saw this book, … Continue reading
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Egypt, Transformation, and the Signs of a Planetary Culture (via The P2P Daily)
“It seems as if the world is entering the beginnings of a new revolutionary era: the era of ‘Global Political Awakening.’ While this ‘awakening’ is materializing in different regions, different nations and under different circumstances, it is largely influenced by … Continue reading
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The Android Developers’ Union
http://andevuni.org/ We, the members and supporters of the Android Developers Union, are fed up with the conditions of the Android Market. We are tired of being treated like sharecroppers on Google’s digital plantation! We have compiled a list of seven … Continue reading
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From Weak Ties to Organized Networks, Institute of Network Cultures
Winter Camp 2009, Report; From Weak Ties to Organized Networks – Ideas, reports and Critiques. About the publication: In March 2009 the Institute of Network Cultures brought 12 networks to Amsterdam for a week of getting things done. Aim of … Continue reading
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Will Facebook Replace Labor Unions? Tom Hayes, The Huffingtonpost
Posted: February 28, 2011 12:04 PM If anyone in the world should be paying close attention to the grassroots political unrest in the Middle East, it is Big Business and Big Labor in America. The rise of self-organized groups of … Continue reading
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