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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 -
Proposals from
the May First
Movement
Technology
with Melanie
Bush (USA), Alfredo
Lopez (USA), Jerome
Scott (USA) and Samantha
Camacho (Mexico)
Friday
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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
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