Social Network Unionism

Trade unions and global restructuring: Why we need local People’s Assemblies!

OrsanSenalp — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:40:47 +0000

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The public sector in the UK is under attack across the board. Tuition fees and marketisation in Higher Education, the abolition of the Education Maintenance Allowance in Further Education, moves towards privatising parts of the NHS, the transformation of schools into academies, cuts in disability benefits, the list could go on. Since 1 April this year, a second round of draconian cuts have been implemented damaging especially the weakest members of society (for an overview, see BBC News, 15 April 2013). And yet, resistance is fragmented and weak. A coherent, united movement against austerity has not emerged in the UK. On 18 May 2013, a People’s Assembly Against Austerity will be held in Nottingham. In this post, I will discuss the importance of local People’s Assemblies for the revival of resistance to austerity in the UK. In particular, I will highlight four reasons: (1) the collapse of resistance at the national level; (2) the importance of a broad space to bring together the diverse groups and people opposed to austerity; (3) the fact that the impact of cuts is felt at the local level; and (4) the need to unite various existing local movements of resistance.
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Trade unions and global restructuring: The Neoliberal University: Origins and Alternatives.

OrsanSenalp — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:39:54 +0000

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UK Higher Education (HE) is being transformed. The introduction of tuition fees of up to £9000 per year induces changes across the whole system including the public purpose, administration and culture of universities. In this guest post, Hugo Radice assesses the transformation of HE as part of wider processes of neoliberal restructuring.
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Social Media Course

OrsanSenalp — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:24:52 +0000

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1. Introduction 2. Will the internet set us free? Myths and realities of the social media revolution 3. The viral effect 4. Some political and communications principles 5. Winning the PR war…

GAIA: Global Alliance for Immediate Alteration‘s insight:

1. Introduction

2. Will the internet set us free? Myths and realities of the social media revolution

3. The viral effect

4. Some political and communications principles

5. Winning the PR war

6. Designing a campaign

7. An overview of the technologies

8. Email

9. Text messaging and phone banking

10. Facebook

11. Twitter

12. Google+

13. Other social networks

14. Building a website

15. Writing for the web

16. Using YouTube and video channels

17. Creating and distributing podcasts

18. Web conferencing and VoIP

19. Advertising

20. Surveillance and security

21. Using Free and Open Source Software

See on usilive.org

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Working and Caring | ECC 2013 – Communication Platform

OrsanSenalp — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:52:25 +0000

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Currently, we witness two parallel phenomena: Global development policies cause the loss of use rights to the natural commons as the livelihood support system for an estimated two billion people. At the same time, an ecology of collaborative production is (re)emerging beyond markets, money and organizational hierarchies as we know them. The lines between production and consumption are becoming blurred by social practices, which are based on sharing and (indirect) reciprocity. These practices are providing innovative answers to the fundamental question of how to (re)produce our livelihoods. Yet, most of the time, they do neither recognize “the whole of work”, which means to overcome the structural divisions between productive work and care work (education, health, eldercare, household level, etc.) nor do they reduce embedded gender imbalances in the performance of these activities. And yet, the emerging new patterns bear the potential for a historical transformation toward a model that we could term “(re)prosumption”.

See on commonsandeconomics.org

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Occupy the IMF – Christine Lagarde Mic-checked!

OrsanSenalp — Mon, 13 May 2013 11:51:22 +0000

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The managing director of IMF Christine Lagarde, as the special guest of ‘Room for Discussion’, being mic-checked at the University of Amsterdam, 7 May 2013.

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Live from Amsterdam, Second Day Networked Labour Seminar

OrsanSenalp — Thu, 09 May 2013 06:44:33 +0000

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Live from Amsterdam: Networked Labour Seminar, 7-9 May

OrsanSenalp — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:14:36 +0000

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Breaking down the barricades

OrsanSenalp — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:08:56 +0000

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Today I was witness to the frontline of an attack on workers’ rights in Turkey.

I was at the barricades when police and security forces, on the orders of their government, fired tear gas at small groups of workers.

GAIA: Global Alliance for Immediate Alteration‘s insight:

From early morning until late in the evening on the first of May, workers in Istanbul came under brutal attack. 40,000 police in riot gear and gas masks are thought to have been on the streets of the city.

The scars from May Day 2013 will run deep for millions of workers in Turkey.

We wanted to go into Taksim Square and sing songs of peace but instead the government unleashed the instruments of war, the President of the Turkish union confederation DISK told me.

While the unions continued negotiating until the last minute for a peaceful celebration of May Day, the government was busy bringing in extra police from the Georgian border, a drive of more than thirty hours.

Last year 600,000 workers celebrated May Day in Taksim Square, bands played into the night, as people danced in the streets.

See on www.equaltimes.org

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Mumble meeting: Open discussion about the future of the WSF, 3 May 2013, 19:00 GMT, 20:00 CET – GlobalSquare

OrsanSenalp — Fri, 03 May 2013 08:39:37 +0000

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Open discussion about the future of the WSF and possibilities to participate in the process for organising it

Following the participation of GlobalSquare to the World Social Forum in Tunis, we would like to discuss further the issue of the participation of individuals from the social movements in such events.
In particular with regards to the World Social Forum we will be discussing, the significance of such an event, if it is worth engaging in the organising process for the next one, and if so in what way.
We welcome also people who were not at the Forum to share their ideas and concerns by taking part in this online meeting, or adding comments to the pads :

Agenda & Minutes pad: http://titanpad.com/globalsquare11
Discussion pad: http://titanpad.com/Cc2DXOM7vW

(If we have time for it, we will also run through the international events planned in the next 2 months)

Friday 3rd of May at 7pm UK time, 8pm Continental Europe
Check local time here: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Server: Occupytalk.org > Assemblies & roundtables > OPEN SPACE
How to join Mumble: http://www.global-square.net/how-to-join

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International Labor Media Network: About

OrsanSenalp — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:13:05 +0000

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Working people throughout the globe face attack on their basic economic and social rights and the need to tell the stories of all working people is crucial in building solidarity and education. Privatization, deregulation and the attack on health and safety along with the living conditions of all working people are issues in every country. The International Labor Media Network ILMN was established to use streaming and the internet to get our stories to workers throughout the world. We invite your union and worker communication organization to stream your press conference, education meeting or actions on this multi-media internatonal labor platform. Contact us if you want to be a partner and would like to get your stories out.

PartnersRMT UK - http://www.rmt.org.uk/Sendika Turkey - http://www.sendika.org/Workers World Media Production South Africa - http://www.wwmp.org.zaLaborNet Japan - http://labornetjp.blogspot.com/Maritime Union Of AustraliaLaborTech.net - http://www.labortech.net or http://www.laborvideo.orgLaborNet US - http://www.labornet.org/Migrant Media UK - http://www.injusticefilm.co.uk/Labournet Austria - http://labournetaustria.atIsrael WAC - http://www.wac-maan.org.il/en/homeLaborBeat Chicago - http://www.laborbeat.orgHong Kong Dockers Union Support Committee

See on ilmnetwork.org

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