The Cyberunions Talk Show: Episode Fourteen

Riots, Strikes and Reddit

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0:40 Walton’s Update

• Worship the Glitch
• What’s a Kernel
• Tech Issues

5:30 Stephen’s Update

• Life on Unemployment
• Career Service Center is mandatory
• Private Career Center
• Receive state funds for people who attend

8:45 London is on Fire-Cameron

• Riot update
• Limited Future
• Margaret Thatcher
• BBM shutdown threat
• Freedom of Speech
• Facebook post leads to 4 years in prison
• Is there a deeper message
• Power of the Federation

15:52 Telecom Workers on Strike

• Communication Workers of America & International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers go on Strike against Verizon
• Reports from the Picket Line
• Last Big strike was 1989 and it lasted 17 weeks
• UK Connection Vodafone is huge stakeholder in Verizon Wireless
• Corporate Tax Loop hole
• What is Verizon and Verizon Wireless

21:36 Corporations are People too

• Willard the Rat Romney
• A sausage feast
• Iowa State Fair
• Straw Poll tax

24:58 Good News

• Student Occupation
• Chose a great building to occupy
• Ended Occupation since February cause they WON!
• No cut backs, no redundancies (layoffs for American listeners)
• Shout Out to the Occupation and use of Diaspora
• US History of Student Occupations
• Buildings designed to fight student uprises

31:17 Reddit /r/cybunions

• Stephen gets an account
• Social News site
• Reddit is FLOSS
• We establish a subreddit

34:15 Feedback

• Douglasawh correction MS Office 2010 Supports Open Documents
• Kier points out the Syndicalist organizations other than the IWW
• What is a syndicalist?