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Monthly Archives: January 2012
State of Corporate Power 2012: Exposing the Davos Class
TNI, January 2012 Who are the global 1%? What companies do they run? How do they escape accountability? Check out TNI’s powerful infographic displays that expose the social and environmental costs of global corporate power. The economic, social and ecological crises … Continue reading
The Pirate Bay declares 3D printed “physibles” as the next frontier of piracy
By Ray Walters on January 24, 2012 at 8:30 am While the subject of online piracy is certainly nothing new, the recent protests againstSOPA and the federal raid on Megauploadhave thrust the issue into mainstream media. More than ever, people are discussing the controversial … Continue reading
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Left Wing Organisations and Libertarian Grassroots Unions Call for an International Day of Action
December 19, 2011 By webmasters During an international meeting in December 2011 in Frankfurt am Main, several left wing organisations and grassroots unions from Greece, Spain, Poland, Austria and Germany decided to launch a joint effort against capitalist reforms under the current … Continue reading
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May 2012 #12M12 #15M12 – INDIGNADOS/OCCUPY/ANONYMOUS JOIN THE GLOBAL SWARM
Throughout this period of insurrection, from Iceland to the latest upheavals in Russia and Hungary, if anything has become clear is the advanced state of decay of political systems and their mechanisms of representation ( they do not represent us!), as well as … Continue reading
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THE ALTERNATIVE WORLD WATER FORUM
March 14 to 17, 2012, the Alternative World Water Forum (FAME or Forum Alternatif Mondial de l’Eau) will be held in Marseilles, France. This event is being organized by associations and movements, trade unions, NGOs, citizens and elected representatives from … Continue reading
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WATER, PLANET AND PEOPLES, FOR A GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
The French government and the World Water Council are organizing the 6th World Water Forum (WWF) from 12th to 17th March, 2012, in Marseille (France). This forum gives a very tiny space to civil society. Thus, the opinion carried during these five days … Continue reading
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2011-’12: from austerity to the alternative | ROARMAG
By Jerome Roos On January 19, 2012 As the world burns and millions struggle to avert a precarious existence at the margins of society, now is the time to unleash the power of the imagination. A little over a year ago, when ROAR … Continue reading
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HOW TO JOIN ANONYMOUS – A BEGINNER’S GUIDE
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Zapatistas: 18 Years of Rebellion and Resistance
by MARCELA SALAS CASSANI Hundreds of activists and academics from around the world gathered at the International Seminar “Planet Earth: Anti-Systemic Movements” to discuss the importance of the 1994 Zapatista uprising on its 18th anniversary. In the context of the … Continue reading
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Blackout Strike: Anonymous Calls for Street Protests; Lawmakers Drop Support of SOPA and PIPA
Wednesday 18 January 2012 by: Mike Ludwig, Truthout | Report Nadine Wolf protests outside the offices of Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who co-sponsored anti-piracy legislation, in New York, on January 18, 2012. The physical protest joined sites around the Web … Continue reading
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#15MGlobalStrike – “The pitchfork movement” – Sicily paralyzed
Posted by Niel – O.T.R.O on 01/20/2012 in 15M Global Strike, News · 0 Comments Today is the third day of protest in Sicily. The island is almost paralyzed. In the island are protesting truckers, farmers, fishermen, craftsmen associations and merchants. Students are organizing demonstrations in … Continue reading
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The Cyberunions Podcast Episode 31 The Tech 5th International: Waterman Interviewed on 20+ years of international labour computer communication
by MV on JANUARY 16, 2012 · LEAVE A COMMENT · in ORGANISING TACTICS, PODCAST, THEORY http://cyberunions.org/wp-content/plugins/audio-player-oogiechetos/assets/player.swf?ver=2.0.4.1 Download high quality OGG Download low quality OGG 0:31 Welcome to DF – Mexico City I am not making the announcement Mayfirst and Laneta (en español) I ran into Occupy Mexico In love with Mexico City … Continue reading
Freedom of Association in the Networked Workplace | via NetzwerkIT & Cyberunions
There is a workshop taking place in Brussels on 26 January that will look at issues important to understanding the effects of new technologies on workplace organisation and trade unions. There is a particular focus on the surveillance of workers, … Continue reading
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FOSSApps: Free and Open Source Software Applications that are safe and useful for unionists, labour and social justice activists
Free and open source online social networking softwares: N-1: N-1 is an online social network software. It has been developed by Indignados from Spain and elsewhere collectively. N-1 combines many of the below tools in it. The name n-1 is … Continue reading
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Some Quick Thoughts on the Notion of a Debtors’ Strike | Rortybomb via MRZine
Posted on November 9, 2011 Sarah Jaffe has a story at Alternet about kick-stopper, one of the four winners at a conference hosted by Douglas Rushkoff’s ContactCon. Kick-stopper is a program being created to try and coordinate debtors’ strikes, especially student debt strikes. You should check … Continue reading
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Occupy Nigeria | Africa is a Country (via Peter Waterman)
JANUARY 9, 2012 BY SEAN JACOBS 6 COMMENTS Nigeria’s political leaders probably did not expect this kind of response from the populace –mass protests, a national strike starting today that shut down major cities–when they decided, on January 1, 2012, to scrap fuel … Continue reading
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A Marxian critque of Peer Production ¦ J.W.R. Teacup
THE PEER PRODUCTION ILLUSION Part II: The Neoliberal Ideology of P2P Published on Tuesday, the 20th of December, 2011 IN SOME WAYS, THE RISE of the open source movement runs counter to the neoliberal ideology that has prevailed since the late … Continue reading
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Why a shorter working week can help us all to flourish in the 21st century?
A ‘normal’ working week of 21 hours could help to address a range of urgent, interlinked problems: overwork, unemployment, over-consumption, high carbon emissions, low well-being, entrenched inequalities, and the lack of time to live sustainably, to care for each other, … Continue reading
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Under Attack: In Defence of the Public Sector ¦ GTWA
by Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly Sun, 09/18/2011 – 09:36 — admin This pamphlet was produced by the Public Sector Campaign of the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly, September 2011. “The Great Recession – the product of government incompetence and corporate greed … Continue reading
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A Movement Without Demands? ¦ Possible Futures
by Marco Deseriis and Jodi Dean TweetFacebookEmail The question of demands infused the initial weeks and months of Occupy Wall Street with the endless opening of desire. Nearly unbearable, the absence of demands concentrated interest, fear, expectation, and hope in the movement. What … Continue reading
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