…let’s take those bastards down!

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Intro track: Take the Bastards Down by Dropkick Murphys

3:00 Updates

Walton and Stephen talk about the weather in Glasgow and Mexico City

Stephen has taken up sewing

Walton was at the STUC Congress in Inverness

The STUC voted to support the BDS campaign against Israel

The Cooperative Group became the first major supermarket chain in Europe to join the boycott – the Guardian and HaAretz

10:20 It’s May Day

We discuss different traditions in different countries

Why does the US celebrate Labor day in September? Depoliticised and turned into a shopping day

The Occupy movement is planning a lot of events

14:20 The history of May Day

1886 Haymarket riots in Chicago

Demonstration for an 8 hour day – a bomb was thrown

Seven anarchists were sentenced to death

Worldwide protests against the execution lead to the founding of May Day as a day commemorating workers’ sacrifice

Workers’ memorial day on 28 April commemorates workers who die on the job

20:00 How do we organise the digital proletariat?

David Bacon wrote a seminal article about organising tech workers

See also

New management techniques are piloted in the high tech sector first, before being applied to other work places

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