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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