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Every social network has an ideology
– By Walton Pantland A social network isn’t a neutral space. It is designed for a purpose, and that purpose is ideological. Is your social network designed by techies, out of a pure love for seeing what is technologically possible? Is it designed to bring people together, to help them organise? Or is it designed […]
Continue readingVouching for Workers (VW) fails to surpass but efforts move forward
It has been quite a while since we posted anything here, but I have to share my thoughts on the activities in a VW plant in Tennessee. If you missed the news VW decided to remain neutral for the United Auto Workers (UAW) drive to organize the VW workers to lay the path for developing […]
Continue readingThe Future of Cyberunions…ok maybe not the future…
Walton and I have been busy working on a number of projects, which we will happily inform in more detail when we recored again, which we think or hope will be sometime in January or February. I do not want to spend this entire post detailing it but some relates to usilive.org and some relates […]
Continue readingWe will call it a summer storm…brainstorm
Hey all as you can tell Walton and I have been off for a couple of weeks now, have no fear we are still here, we are just busy from an eventful past couple of weeks, that may impact the future of cyberunions as we know it, have no fear the podcast will continue. We […]
Continue readingInto the Fire – The Hidden Victims of Austerity in Greece
This is great documentary produced by a sister organization and member of May First/People Link you can support them by visiting their site In To The Fire. You can watch the move streamed below online or download it to your computer from this link with subtitles in multiple languages. Please distribute this widely!! A hard […]
Continue readingNew Tires with a new look that might make me a…. moacycle?
A lot has change since last I rode, but most importantly…my new tires…they are yellow on top of the red rims As you can see they are quite nice. The original tires, seen in my profile photo, were completely red, but they wore down quickly. So now the yellow ones, which makes me feel a […]
Continue readingSignaling fucking cars that don’t signal
This happens more than I would care to talk about but today as @Stephen Mahood and I made our way to Centro de Coyoacan a Toyota Avlon, one of those nice looking bmw like Toyotas, cut us off cause they didn’t us a turn signal. Fortunately this time my brakes kicked in and we stopped […]
Continue readingSometimes flats do strike twice and sometimes bring on collective support
Would you believe it same front tire went out again but this time it was on the ride instead of the beginning. While @Stephen Mahood decided to visit his book reading coffee shop, just about 5 minutes from the cafe my front tire deflated, slowly but to put where I could not carry forward. @Stephen […]
Continue readingI AM the “my bicycle”
They mentioned me!! @Stephen Mahood and @Leischa have released another show and I think they named it after me, how nice! So I am the bicycle that @Stephen Mahood mentioned and I write my stories here (follow on twitter or friends) So the other day @marxstvegan, as he recovered from a nasty cold, took me […]
Continue readingOther bikes are critical too…
Hi comrades, Well it has been a couple of days since I wrote my first post, so I figure it’s time for a second. As I figure out what to share about these trips each day, some crazy some not, I am working to build the contextual story without boring everyone with the wheels go […]
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