All the fists of the world are GNUniting! First Brainstorm – Online Meeting This Sunday at 13.00 PM GMT

All the fists of the world are GNUniting!
First Brainstorm – Online Meeting This Sunday at 13.00 PM GMT
https://www.facebook.com/GlobalNetworkedLabourUnion

We are the workers whose free labour and privacy has been stolen, and sold
for greed! We have been abused, spied on and betrayed constantly. Before
this massive exploitation and surveillance machine turns into a global
apparatus in the hands of fascism, being operationalized for direct
oppression, we have to unite our fists and strike back!

This May Day is the time… How and what is not decided yet, there are
initial ideas but much is needed to put the global collective intelligence
at work to defend our and our children’s rights and dignity! Join us this
Sunday and bring your most free, creative, powerful and peaceful ideas and
dreams along… We did beat Freon, Caesars, Barons, Kings, Emperors,
Merchants, Industrial Capitalists and Nazis in the past, we can beat the
TNCs, CEOs and 1% as well!

We call all the workers, hackers, makers, farmers, artists, indignant and
outraged to GNUnite all their constructive capacity around the most
spectacular free libre and open sourced swarm to fight back and win!

Hasta la Siempre Victoria!
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World Revolutionary Forum: Towards WorldWideWave of Actions in 2014 (#www)

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/593164267417330/

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Hosted by GNUnion – One Big Meshwork for All the Working People

Again, 2014 will be full of struggles, actions and mobilisations for a real global change. This Mumble call will be about starting a new series of forums and assemblies that are open to all individuals who will able to make independent efforts from any corporate, state and NGO funded agenda and; who could be exactly themselves when changing the world, when getting together, discussing and collaborating with others; either as a part of a collective, group, network or individually, and by using either online, or face to face means, or both.

Organized Networks: From Weak Ties to Strong Links by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter

(Ned Rossiter and I wrote a piece on ‘organized networks’ for the technology special of Occupied Times (#23). Here it is. The URL: http://theoccupiedtimes.org/?p=12547)

Organized Networks: From Weak Ties to Strong Links by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter

Sloganism for late 2013: “I feel protected by unpublished Suite A algorithms.” (J. Sjerpstra) – “I am on an angry squirrel’s shitlist.” – Join the Object Oriented People – “When philosophy sucks—but you don’t.” ­– “See you in the Sinkhole of Stupid, at 5 pm.” – “I got my dating site profile rewritten by a ghost writer.” – “Meet the co-editor of the Idiocracy Constitution” – The Military-Entrepreneurial Complex: “They are bad enough to do it, but are they mad enough?” – “There really should be something like Anti-Kickstarter for the things you’d be willing to pay to have not happen.” (Gerry Canavan) – Waning of the Social Media: Ruin Aesthetics in Peer-to-Peer Enterprises (dissertation) – “Forget the Data Scientist, I need a Data Janitor.” (Big Data Borat)

If we look back at the upheavals from the past years (2011-2013) we see bursts of ‘social media’ activity. From Tahir to Taksim, from Tel-Aviv to Madrid, from Sofia to Sao Paolo, what they have in common is communication peaks, which fade away soon after the initial excitement, much in line with the festival economy that drives the Society of the Event. Corporate social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook are considered useful to spread rumors, forward pictures and reports and comment on established media (incl. the Web). But no matter how intense the street events may have been, they often do not go beyond ‘short ties’. As temporary autonomous spaces they feel like carnevalist ruptures of the everyday life. Revolts without consequences?

Unrevealing Class Conspiracy in the Aftermath of Recent Hammond-WikiLeaks Revelations on Otpor, Canvas, Srdja Popovic, and Stratfor relationships | via Zoe Alif

Below are a series of articles this past week about internationally acclaimed activist, Srdja Popovic, and his involvement with the private intelligence firm Stratfor.

WikiLleaks Revelatinos: https://search.wikileaks.org/gifiles/?rl

Article from Waging NonViolence defending Popovic by Bryan Farrell: http://wagingnonviolence.org/2013/11/stratfor-canvas/

Article from Occupy.com investigation of Srdja Popovic by Steve Horne and Carl Gibson: http://www.occupy.com/article/exposed-globally-renowned-activist-collaborated-intelligence-firm-stratfor

Article from the YesMen defending Popovic and accusing Steve Horne/Carl Gibson of “yellow journalism” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-yes-men/how-yellow-journalism-screws-the-left_b_4387341.html

Article from Occupy.com in response to YesMen over the “yellow journalism” accusation

http://www.occupy.com/article/how-defending-private-intelligence-firm-collaborators-screws-grassroots-activists

Horne & Gıbson interview with Popovic: http://pastebin.com/sgL4vP7Z

Ps: Anyone has information about OTPOR, CANVAS or Srdja Popovic, please feel free to contact zoealif@gmail.com.  as she is currently writing a blog post on the story.