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

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