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0:30 Walton’s updates
- We have a guest tonight, so we’re using Skype. This is causing some technical issuess
1:21 Stephen’s updates
- Leaving Babylon in less than three weeks
- Off to Guatemala to learn Spanish at Elmigrante Spanish School
- Hoping to start a worker coop
2:22 Tech update
- Google Docs uses free software called Etherpad – we’re using an instance of it on riseup.net to reduce our reliance on Google
3:49 Interview with David Rovics
- David Rovics is a US folk musician
- David played at the Glasgow University student occupation
- David has a new song called Occupy Wall Street
- Social change is a grubby business
- David releases his music under a Creative Commons license
- Freely distributed music can provide a better audience for musicians – but Coldplay might suffer!
- David is a union member and often plays at union events
- David’s latest album is Big Red Sessions
30:00 Hear David’s new song
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