Cyberunions Podcast – Episode 58 Where the F&#$ have we been!?

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0:28 The bots broke who is where and what?

Walton runs a 10k (stephen forgot to say he knows how far that is now) after a week off of drinking
Walton went to Italy to find the summer Britain did not have, it is a Fine country
Stephen had craziness with no vacation…dealt with a horrible living situation
Stephen’s past roommate is fucking crazy, Stephen had deal with a 38 year old that acted more like a 17 year old
Stephen is in a new apartment with activist sane people
Class war kitty…named pussy riot til he became a male so it is just riot
Stephen tries figure out 4500 pesos in british pound……… 215 pounds
Stephen now has a view of Ajusco

6:22 How are the movements?

Stephen is working more on the World Social Forum on Palestine more than mxtomalacalle
Learning the hard way in updating a Drupal module he forgot to read the notes
Stephen’s style of learning break it first
Stephen highly appreciates Sysadmins
Stephen tries to get Walton to send “income” his way
In addition to Drupal this week before going to San Francisco he will install CiviCRM
In addition to learning CSS, Stephen has grown to love EMACS

10:45 Diaspora is now in the community

about damn time!
Walton feels they gave up and don’t know what to do
Stephen thinks its too little too late and that they moved on to other projects instead of seeing it through
Expands the critique of those in the social movements commit it to the end don’t jump ship to the next popular thing in the news
Frustrated with the potential of diapora and the shit it became cause the reigns were never let go

20:56 Eurozone is hitting Southern Europe very hard

The town of Marinaleda in Spain is an Anarcho-Communist Commune that has reached the NYTimes
They are trying to be the utopia….if you want a house you pay 15 euros a month and the community helps you build the house in the community.
Job for life and you are connected to the community
The community is not isolated they support labor efforts elsewhere too
They have raided supermarkets to share the food with those in need in food banks
The social contract after WWII is breaking and communities are organizing more militantly to make sure it stays
Defending farm land is not an easy task, historically where it was successful is the Zapatista movement

26:00 Bad news from South Africa – the Marikana massacre

History of poor conditions in the platinum belt
Added problem of labour brokers and agency work
The National Union of Mineworkers seems to have lost their way
Conflict between NUM and an new union, AMCU
NUM accuses AMCU of being a yellow union – however this is unlikely as yellow unions seldom wildcat
Disappointing to see IndustriALL supporting the NUM line – dishonest and a failure of solidarity
Some evidence that Marikana was a planned massacre
More coverage here

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