Friends, this webinar on the democratic, movement-led use of technologies for transformation and struggle, would be of interest. Speakers from USA and Mexico. English-Spanish translation will be available. Organised by Global Tapestry of Alternatives and Global Dialogue for Systemic Change. Amigos, este seminario web sobre el uso democrático y dirigido por el movimiento de las tecnologías para la transformación y la lucha, sería de interés. Oradores de EE.UU. y México. Habrá disponible una traducción inglés-español. Organizado por Global Tapestry of Alternatives y el Diálogo Global para el Cambio Sistémico. 15 July, 13.30 GMT/UTC Registration/links: https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars:07 Ashish -- LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (thepluriverse.org) andwww.globaltapestryofalternatives.org Ashish Kothari Kalpavriksh Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa 908 Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004, India Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450 http://kalpavriksh.org www.vikalpsangam.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org www.iccaconsortium.org www.acknowlej.org http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/ Twitter: @chikikothari /Global Tapestry of Alternatives/ and /Global Dialogue for Systemic Change /present: *Dialogue on Alternatives in the Time of Global Crises - a Webinar series* Dialogue 7: Covid 19 - Visioning the Future: May First Movement Technology with *Melanie Bush*/(USA)/, *Alfredo Lopez*/(USA)/, *Jerome Scott*/(USA)/ and *Samantha Camacho*/(Mexico)/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Wednesday 15th July - 13:30 GMT/UTC* In this seventh session, we will carry on a collective dialogue about May First Movement Technology, a non-profit organization that engages in building movements by advancing the strategic use and collective control of technology for local struggles, global transformation, and emancipation without borders. Information and registration <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars:07> Direct access to the session <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars/live/> Presenters Melanie Bush Professor of Sociology, Adelphi University; Research Fellow, University of South Africa. Publications include: Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie or Reality (with Roderick D. Bush), Everyday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Race in a “Post-Racial” World, and lead editor of Rod Bush: Lessons from a Radical Black Scholar on Liberation Love and Justice. She is co-chair of the Board of May First Movement Technology, a movement building organization focused on the role of technology in social transformation. As such Melanie locates home in the struggle for a just and loving world. Alfredo Lopez Founder of May First Movement Technology, the largest political progressive Internet membership organization in this country, where he coordinates the organization's work in campaigns, networks and coalitions. During his half-century of movement activism, he has been a leader in the Puerto Rican Independence, labor and anti-war movements; organizer of several major national demonstrations and scores of smaller ones; editor of two publications (Claridad and Sevendays Magazine); radio and television producer (and host); college teacher; and author of six published books and hundreds of published articles. His most recent book is “Goodies from the Yum Yum Tree: the Internet and Revolution in the Final Days of Capitalism”. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his spouse: the writer, teacher and organizer Maritza Arrastía. They have two sons and a grand-daughter. Jerome Scott A former auto worker, labor organizer in the auto plants of Detroit in the 1960s-70s, and member of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, was the founding director of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. He serves on the board of the General Baker Institute, the National Planning Committee of the United States Social Forum, co-chair of the Board of May First Movement technology, and is active in social justice movement organizations, including the League of Revolutionaries for a New America. He is author and co-author of numerous chapters and articles on the global capitalist crisis, race, class, and gender, the revolutionary process, and transformative social movements toward socialism. Samantha Camacho Tiene una licenciatura en biología por la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana y estudios de posgrado en Geografía por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Samantha es especialista en análisis espacial, gestión de bases de datos geográficos, cartografía digital y cartografía comunitaria. Ella formo parte de la asamblea del Hackerspace Rancho Electrónico en la CDMX, involucrándose en diferentes proyectos de cartografía y visualización de datos y, en temas relacionados a la privacidad y la protección de datos personales, esto último con el grupo de Autodefensa Digital Feminista, ambos espacios fueron creados con el objetivo de facilitar la investigación y la experimentación con herramientas de software libre. Actualmente es Investigadora-Cartógrafa de PODER. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Our past webinar sessions videos are available in this link <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars>. 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