Cyberunions Talk Show: Episode 39 Walton is sooooo Boring!!!

**NOTE: Sorry about the double intro song, ran into minor but unresolvable editing issues last night** Download High Quality Ogg Download low quality Ogg Download MP3 0:35 Walton’s Yawn! Boring financial reports puts Stephen falls asleep Walton Read a Book Why it’s Kicking Off Everywhere Stephen is liendo una libro El Otro Gringo 5:25 Stephen […]

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Cyberunions podcast: Episode 38 – Walton goes to the other Oxford

Download High Quality OGG Download Low Quality OGG Download MP3 Stephen’s updates Stephen teaches students to be GIMPs Stephen has been fiddling with the Cyberunions site and has added Vanilla Forums Add a comment! 06:00 Walton’s updates Walton visits the Ruskin College MA programme Great MA programme in International Labour and Trade Union Studies This […]

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Realizing How Zsocial lacks the Participatory model

Recently we came across Zsocial and “discussed” it in Episode 36, or rather I ranted about it and figured I should write out my criticism. Zsocial is a new social network that is being developed by the Zcommunications community, which includes the speaker/author Michael Albert, who wrote ParEcon: Life After Capitalism and Realizing Hope: Life Beyond […]

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Cyberunions Talk Show: Episode 37 Left wing, FLOSS, Right wing, or What

Download OGG HQ Download ogg lq Download mp3 0:28 Sparks are flying Walton is exhausted from playing futbol Sparks have through rank and file thoroughly won and got an unlikely supporter The Teamsters Jimmy Hoffa Jr. supported a rank and file movement, but not the Teamsters for a Democratic Union 6:35 Stephen’s part of the […]

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Cyberunions Podcast: Episode 36 – Zsocial on ParE-con-tradiction

Download High quality OGG Download low quality OGG Download MP3 0:31 We have updates! Walton is back in the saddle I learned to do video streaming FLOSS style We have a social network from the GPL software of status.net  Please email us for invites Social network with character, 1200 characters at the moment, it’s not […]

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The Cyberunions Talk Show: Episode 35 Cause mayfirst.org was still available

Download OGG High Quality Download OGG low quality Download MP3 0:31 …with me is…actually Walton From the land of slow internet Very few Trade Unions and Activists use the Internet in South Africa We need to change the name of the show RadioSMSunions dot org? Need to be more flexible with technology for communication amongst […]

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The Cyberunions Talk Show: Episode 34 Eff it we’ll call it Pipe Soup (SOPA/PIPA)

Download Ogg high quality Download Ogg low quality Download MP3 0:26 Walton is still missing Temporary replacement is Douglas The not missing EFF interview of the first Music Manumit Lawcast Douglas thinks a lot and acts like a lawyer 2:15 Die Die die!!! Douglas leans toward the anarchist, Anarchy is all over the place Black […]

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The Cyberunions Talk Show: Episode 33 Return of the … 5th International

Download MP3 Download Ogg High quality Download Ogg Low quality 0:30 Welcome to the show Walton is away again I am back in Mexico Coordinate group with the Music Manumit 1:47 Book Deal We are partners with Powells Books Allies Across the Border United Electrical Workers organized a sit-in 5:18 Tech Update My laptop got […]

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The Cyberunions Podcast: Episode 32 We are back together to be separate again

Download MP3 Download Ogg high quality Download Ogg low quality 0:30 How are you? Mexico City Walton has an announcement Might record from South Africa 3:38 Internet on Strike Opposition to SOPA/PIPA Petition the US State Department We Blacked Out US Senate vote on the 24 of January Where is the Labor Movement on the […]

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For the Win

We’ve mentioned For the Win a number of times on the podcast, so I thought it was time to write a review. We’d still like to create a books section on the site, so hopefully this can contribute towards that. There is a shortage of literature on trade union organising, so it is a real […]

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