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0:32 Walton is in London
- Working with a newly formed Union Solidarity International
- For some reason grassroots is a good idea with the labor movement
- Stephen camped out with MXtomalacalle at the Monument to the Revolution
- Believe it or not Stephen can dance late into the night and finished the night with a talk about the Paris Commune
7:05 The closure of the Johnny Walker factory
- The existing plant was profitable but they still decided to close it
- Walton shed a tear watching the factory workers leave for the last time
- Walton took video footage of the last day
- Capital taking advantage of the economic crisis to close and extract more profits
- Disturbing what capital can do with so much power, bribing the government to give them money to stay
13:00 A more cheerful tech update
- MXtomalacalle has adopted Free Software as part of the movement
- Free Software working group has been created and starts to meet this week.
- Trying to handle volunteer info and Stephen tried out CiviCRM we had done a show with Keir about it in episode 20
- CiviCRM install was pretty easy on the WordPress site
- Ability to develop social connections between relationships of people involved
- A learning process, and a good support group on IRC
17:58 Labor Unions and their IT proprietary ways
- From our IRC channel came a discussion of IT at labor unions being more supportive to Microsoft and mainstream
- Connects to the Marxist critique that you use the capitalist tools against itself
- Very rare to run into labor activists that understand the politics of software, network and the power structures involved
- Labor union strategy tends to be a Broadcast and not focusing on their strengths to organize community
22:00 No risk strategy to use LibreOffice
- Probably could start with LibreOffice
- Stephen ducked and went or goed or something to research connections to anti-law firm
- Stephen happen to find a connection between Microsoft and a Jackson-Lewis and why unions shouldn’t use Microsoft
- Trying to figure out a way to build committees in a union to demand Free Software
27:15 Stephen is a Trot and some how a tank is involved
- There are lots of trots and tankies in Britian
- Tankies are stalinists, and the name comes from the Stalin invasion to worker revolutions that were being oppressed
- In Mexico tankies are stalinistas
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