Cyberunions Podcast Episode 57 – Olympic Romney Shambles…He Wins Gold!!

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0:29 Olympic Moments

Walton Returns from London Ghost Town
Stephen wonders what it was like in Mexico City during the Olympics in 1968
London’s Mayor scared people away from London
Stephen matches the gaffes of the London Mayor with Mitt Romney’s 3 time Gold Winning Gaffes
Mitt Romney thinks the economic success of Palestine depends on culture
Stephen insists on The Daily Show clip o Mitt Romney
Walton says Mitt Romney offended the right wing in the UK

6:05 Money is Speech

In the US elections money is speech so the more you have the chance to speak
Stephen continues to learn Drupal and been on more conference calls
Drupal is quite amazing and the interface after install is easy and seems Stephen may start promoting Drupal over WordPress
Stephen continues to organize for the World Social Forum on Palestine and may go to San Fransico for an Organizing event for the WSF

8:49 We have a Tech load

What it means to adopt your own software instead of relying on corporations
Getting everyonein movement on the same page each new activist needs to learn from the start and engage with using new software
Working with making things look mainstream and pretty, we are not a corporation but we can make sites look more fun
Wiki may not look nice but we can make it look pretty
Welcome to the Occupy Social Network but it is in testing phase
Friendica is Diaspora meets what it should be it integrates all social networks under one house
Stephen was introduced to it from r7
Diaspora stopped really developing and involving the community so we have moved on
Android App by the TSSA the Olympic Survival Kit it is in the interest of workers and passengers
Great to see technology being a way to link unions with communities
It was not outsourced Walton asked 🙂

23:54 Will the Rants Come Back

There was a “so-called” election in Mexico and a political movement started called #yosoy132
Stephen gives a brief history of the student movement with a political critique
A controlled movement with marches after marches offer the deep connections of Piena Nieto (PRI) and Televisa (hint Piena Nieto’s wife is a Soap Opera star on Televisa)
Post marches no organizing, yosoy132 has more or less become a front group to the PRD
Carlos “Fat” Slim and the relationship with the PRD
Stephen says we should start the critique from economic and not political first cause connection political corruptions to economic corruption is harder.
Movements need to build things and not just march and protest
We need a movement with no leaders but horizontal movements are stronger and longer lasting but slower to build
Walton dislikes the people who have been active who return to watching TV
Stephen highlights that we need to do more work for change instead of more work for profits to someone else