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It’s freezing in Mexico City

No central heating makes 10C/53F feel cold in Mexico City

We make no promises but we will try to get back to a weekly show baring an activism we are involved in

Appeasing new listeners….we need to sing, but we will hold off to a drinking show

Stephen got a new netbook the Acer Aspire One D270 and ran into issues with the video drivers CrunchBang to the rescue

Walton uses the Asus EEEpc with lots of battery life and impressed

On the other side of the pond Walton is exhausted from hitting the wall of the internet

His hands and fingers are killing him, he might need a union 😉

Labor

The head of the Teachers union in Mexico was arrested….what does this mean for the folks outside of Mexico

Elba Esther Gordillo the leader of the Teachers union has inspired a move to make the teachers union independent.

She was formerly a leader of the PRI but sided with the PAN in 2000, but now the PRI is back in power and taking action against her for her lack of support.

She is horribly corrupt, makes Jimmy Hoffa look good.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, well the PRI arresting her could be good for the independent movement, but Stephen still hates the PRI

This is not an attack on unions this is a political move

What is Fair Trade and why do we care?

Keeping condition standards, but making a market solution to a market problem

Now “With added human dignity” ~ labor becomes a commodity

There are problems with the FairTrade label but the idea is good

Fair Trade as a tool to organize workers, great example from South Africa

We need a new label a worker approved label not a FairTrade label

It’s a tool that can work in a good way but more often in a complacent way…we need to ask more of the consumer

Tech: How would fair trade standards be applicable to Tech workers

How do we establish a condition standard for work in the tech sector?

Question for the tech listeners that might be able to share ideas on how we could make sure the working conditions are healthy without a union

Tech workers are isolated and it is a challenge to determine what the conditions are

Firefox Web Developer tools is great when designing and developing sites…at first the features of Firebug were farther ahead but now it seems the Firefox built in tool is quite powerful

Thanking the Drupal Zen theme developers for good tech writing for the new web designer

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