by WALTON PANTLAND on OCTOBER 11, 2011 · LEAVE A COMMENT ·in PODCAST

Organise, Network, Occupy!

0:30 Walton and Stephen’s updates

Stephen visits Occupy Boston
Coalition of Resistance in Glasgow had a teleconference with Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Manchester and People First in Glasgow
The Occupy movement is more than just a march – it’s opening political space
The unions have come on board too
Is this the birth of the Green Tea Party?
Occupy Wall Street has a good manifesto
The union busters have noticed us! They’re worried about swarm organising, Worth a show in future?

10:00 Tech updates

No, we’re not reviewing the iPhone 4S
This isn’t a lament for Steve Jobs either
We bang on about Facebook privacy
Open Graph tracks any website you visit that has a ‘like’ button – whether you click it or not
“Frictionless sharing” or total surveillance?
We suspect Google does the same, but can’t be sure
We hope to get server space soon, so we can provide some solutions

14:00 We have a guest – welcome Örsan

Walton and Örsan say something weird in a foreign language
Örsan is Turkish but lives in The Netherlands
First hand experience of marginalised and vulnerable existence as a migrant worker in a country with a resurgent right wing
Works with TIE-Netherlands – Transnational Information Exchange – autonomous nodes get us excited!
Peter Waterman is the original cyberunionist – he wroteInternational labour communication by computer : the fifth international? back in 1992
Waterman is at the GLU conference in Johannesburg right now
Initiated two projects inspired by Waterman – Social Network Unionism – mapping the ability of technology to facilitate workers’ self-organisation to create a hyperempowered working class
GAIA is an attempt to create a network of activists and practioners
Let’s have a discussion – what’s the best way to use technology to organise?
There is now a #cyberunions IRC channel on oftc.net – join us and have your say
Use Facebook and Twitter to communicate – but work on an exit strategy

33:10 Feedback

Walton has been having wireless issues on Debian since the last kernel upgrade
Just installed Chakra Linux – it’s Arch with a KDE interface
Plot Tracer of Second Life Left Unity says there are solidarity occupations in SL
We are mentioned in an article in the latest edition ofLabour Research
The trade union education department at Stow Collegehave been using cyberunions as a resource – welcome visitors!

Social Network Unionism