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Monthly Archives: May 2011
YES LAB – Peer creative media activism!
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide The Yes Lab is a series of brainstorms and trainings to help activist groups carry out media-getting creative actions, focused on their own campaign goals. It’s a way for social justice organizations … Continue reading
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Spain is Ground Zero for the P2P Revolution | Michel Bauwens
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide Within Spain, the organization of these camps is striking: they work like small kibbutzim where everybody shares what they have and where the decisions are adopted by consensual agreement. Their posters carry … Continue reading
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Unidentified Revolutionary Objects (UROs) Appear with Thunderstrikes and Take Over Major Cities across the World!
“Toma la Plaza”: Frustration with Unemployment, BudgetCuts Fuels Grassroots Protests in Spain / Democracy Now! May 26, 2011 Watch the video Tens of thousands of Spanish protesters are demonstrating across the country calling for better economic opportunities, a more representative electoral system, … Continue reading
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iWorkers Union International – Internet Labour Union
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide The iWorkers Union unites and represents internet, information technology, and remote presence workers around the world with one clear voice. We encourage industry and service sector standardization, and classification of job descriptions, … Continue reading
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LabourStart’s 2nd Annual Global Solidarity Conference / LabourStart’s 2 Yıllık Global Dayanışma Konferansı – Istanbul, 18.20.11.11
That’s the theme of this year’s LabourStart Global Solidarity Conference, to be held on 18-20 November 2011 at the headquarters of Petrol-Is (the Turkish oil workers union) in Istanbul. This website will contain everything you need to know about the … Continue reading
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Union Networking | New Unionism Network
(last updated March 2010) This page looks at some of the free tools you can use to start networking with your co-workers and other unionists. Many of these tools have competitors. Generally we’ve named our favourite, along with a … Continue reading
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Constructing, living, and demanding Participatory Democracy in the #spanishrevolution Camps
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide‘We, the unemployed, the underpaid, the subcontracted, the precarious, the young … demand a change towards a future with dignity. We are fed up of reforms, of being laid off, of the banks … Continue reading
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Social networks used to call thousands to protest in Spain
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide Hoping to repeat the success of Egyptian people power, various groups in Spain have occupied Madrid’s main square of “Puerta del Sol”. Students, workers and the unemployed have called their protests the … Continue reading
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Social Networks Spread Political Opposition in Spain
Social networks have helped mobilize thousands of people in a movement known as known as “the outraged” in cities around Spain. The movement is invading the streets — and social networks, under hashtags such as #democraciarealya and #nolesvotes. Thousands of people … Continue reading
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The Excluded Workers Congress
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide In June 2010 (at the US Social Forum in Detroit, MI), against the backdrop of the global recession, nine sectors of excluded workers came together to found the Excluded Workers Congress. The … Continue reading
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New RPW chapter: Networked model of PUP in Mauritania | Reclaiming Public Water
A new chapter contributed to the Reclaiming Public Water book (online collection of chapters). The PUP project which is the focus of this article is primarily a cooperation between ONEP and public state company SNDE (Mauritania). The dynamic characteristics of this … Continue reading
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For a Free Labour Culture: Charter for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge
A broad coalition from over 20 countries, of citizens, users, consumers, organizations, artists, hackers, members of the free culture movement, economists, lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, scientists, activists, workers, unemployed, entrepreneurs, creators…, invites all citizens to make this Charter theirs, share … Continue reading
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The Unions: How Can We Organise Against Austerity? | New Left Project
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism Worldwide On 30th June, up to 750,000 public sector workers, including many members of the UCU, NUT, PCS and ATL unions, perhaps along with Unite health workers, are expected to strike together [1]. … Continue reading
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From Luddism 2.0 to Cyberunions | Cyberunions
It’s time for unions to embrace the information age and develop an online, global, networked social movement unionism. Original text: http://cyberunions.org/2011/05/13/from-luddism-2-0-to-cyberunions/ Rational Luddism The default trade union position on new technology is Luddism 2.0. Anecdotes abound of a Life on … Continue reading
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Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy, Tiziana Terranova | Sendika.org
The real not-capital is labor. -Karl Marx, Grundrisse Working in the digital media industry is not as much fun as it is made out to be. The “NetSlaves” of the eponymous Webzine are becoming increasingly vociferous about the shamelessly … Continue reading
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Signalling dissent
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism WorldwideWITH a tin can, some copper wire and a few dollars’ worth of nuts, bolts and other hardware, a do-it-yourselfer can build a makeshift directional antenna. A mobile phone, souped-up with such an … Continue reading
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Authority and Power within Anonymous | P2P Foundation
Michel Bauwens, 7th May 2011 Excerpted from a very interesting analysis of Gabriela Coleman: “Who participates in Anonymous? What connects the different faces? Where and how does authority lie, pool, and disperse? Technically, Anonymous is open to all and erects no … Continue reading
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Self organising
Via Scoop.it – Mapping Social Network Unionism WorldwideSELF ORGANISING is a series of workshops and discussions on self-organisation and non-hierarchical work practices. The encounters aim to provide an initial platform to reflect on current practices, establish networks and create shared … Continue reading
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Organised Networks: Transdisciplinarity and New Institutional Forms by Ned Rossiter
The social-technical dynamics of ICT-based networks constitute organisation in ways substantively different from networked organisations (unions, state, firms, universities). My interest in this paper is to say a few things about the process of scalar transformation and transdisciplinarity as they … Continue reading
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