---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 6:38 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Hack the Union from US interviews with Andrew Bradey of Union Solidarity International To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, Peter Hall-Jones <[email protected]> The below are google hangout videos from USI website: i. Hack the Union from US interviews with Andrew of Union Solidarity International: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4U4FNAkZtSc ii. A small step for unions, but a giant step for global labour emancipation?: Unite the Union's USI mediates the established union world entering into the networked organising (networganizing) era!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k6BmWC5lr8Y and this is a nice article by Walton Patland introducing the ON: http://www.scoop.it/t/networked-labour/p/4017080234/2014/03/05/karl-marx-on-... the ON, is built by a USi as a free node on Lorea network. In this framework they also, in collaboration with MayFirst/People Link provide server space for floss distance education software BigBlueButton (BBB) for the use of their members as well as grassroots activist. BBB allows -if there is a date space enough to handle the traffic- teleconferencing for infinite number of participants with video and audio connection. This means, if well organised, mass self-organising and education platform for workers and activists would work efficiently. BBB also allows users to record their meetings, use screen sharing, power point presentation, file sharing, multi lingual chat so on during the conferences. If the new technology being developed now for online simultaneous interpretation system also incorporated to this platform, can' t see any reason for this project not becoming a mesh network pulling many transnational labour an justice activists into it take part and use it to organise globally. there are already several active work groups created on USi's ON, can be seen here: https://on.usilive.org/groups/all O. _______________________________________________ NetworkedLabour mailing list [email protected] http://lists.contrast.org/mailman/listinfo/networkedlabour -- *Please note an intrusion wiped out my inbox on February 8; I have no record of previous communication, proposals, etc ..* P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/