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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 activists

5:46 We have been syndicated

OccupyBoston now has an Internet radio stations

I went to Ocupemos a la Coyoacon

The occupation becomes conceptual, what is the next sphere we need to occupy

8:21 Netbook Love Returns

Walton continues to praise the Asus eeePC

Used Clementine at the wedding

9:28 Interviewing a date?

If you recall we moved cyberunions.org to mayfirst servers

Jamie and Josue from Mayfirst

Mayfirst is a membership organization, with 700 members, who are entitled to hosting, websites, emails and email lists to name a few

The internet should be based on free and open protocols and free software

11:40 The creation of Mayfirst

Merger of People Link and Mayfirst

Took on a new structure of a membership organization

Josue spent most of the 1990s union organizing and community organizing

Institute for Global Communications, which was the first nonprofit service proivder

In 1996 Josue was running labor.net then went on to work with Alfredo on People Link

13:35 Mayfirst is a known name why did you all take the name

In 1999 named media jump start

2003 we changed to Mayfirst Technology Collective

Internationally mayday is known but in the US though based here not known

The domain name was still available in 2003

16:28 What is the community?

Join Mayfirst People Link is like joining a union a really good union

It is an uphill struggle, the way capitalism has developed people think of corporations and not about politics

Mayfirst is political and needs to be for the betterment of technology

Participating in conferences and meetings

Planning to launch more trainings online and offline to expand the community.

19:00 Creating space for the social movements

A ‘good’ union, need to qualify it

Server Names…they are all unique names, who is Dorothy?

All servers are named after activists…Dorothy Day

Used to have a section in the news letter to highlight the name of a server

Connection to other social movements, Dorothy Day was a devout catholic

24:00 Challenge to engage most of our union members

25-35 Union members

Challenging cause of the culture of the unions, unions is more of a 9-5 culture

We do outreach to unions, but it is a challenge and reflects on the larger challenge social movements

Reminds Stephen of the idea behind the cyberunions podcast, talk to labor to network and connect free software to labor unions

26:30 It takes a movement to bring people together