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0:28 The bots broke who is where and what?

Walton runs a 10k (stephen forgot to say he knows how far that is now) after a week off of drinking

Walton went to Italy to find the summer Britain did not have, it is a Fine country

Stephen had craziness with no vacation…dealt with a horrible living situation

Stephen’s past roommate is fucking crazy, Stephen had deal with a 38 year old that acted more like a 17 year old

Stephen is in a new apartment with activist sane people

Class war kitty…named pussy riot til he became a male so it is just riot

Stephen tries figure out 4500 pesos in british pound……… 215 pounds

Stephen now has a view of Ajusco

6:22 How are the movements?

Stephen is working more on the World Social Forum on Palestine more than mxtomalacalle

Learning the hard way in updating a Drupal module he forgot to read the notes

Stephen’s style of learning break it first

Stephen highly appreciates Sysadmins

Stephen tries to get Walton to send “income” his way

In addition to Drupal this week before going to San Francisco he will install CiviCRM

In addition to learning CSS, Stephen has grown to love EMACS

10:45 Diaspora is now in the community

about damn time!

Walton feels they gave up and don’t know what to do

Stephen thinks its too little too late and that they moved on to other projects instead of seeing it through

Expands the critique of those in the social movements commit it to the end don’t jump ship to the next popular thing in the news

Frustrated with the potential of diapora and the shit it became cause the reigns were never let go

20:56 Eurozone is hitting Southern Europe very hard

The town of Marinaleda in Spain is an Anarcho-Communist Commune that has reached the NYTimes

They are trying to be the utopia….if you want a house you pay 15 euros a month and the community helps you build the house in the community.

Job for life and you are connected to the community

The community is not isolated they support labor efforts elsewhere too

They have raided supermarkets to share the food with those in need in food banks

The social contract after WWII is breaking and communities are organizing more militantly to make sure it stays

Defending farm land is not an easy task, historically where it was successful is the Zapatista movement

26:00 Bad news from South Africa – the Marikana massacre

History of poor conditions in the platinum belt

Added problem of labour brokers and agency work

The National Union of Mineworkers seems to have lost their way

Conflict between NUM and an new union, AMCU

NUM accuses AMCU of being a yellow union – however this is unlikely as yellow unions seldom wildcat

Disappointing to see IndustriALL supporting the NUM line – dishonest and a failure of solidarity

Some evidence that Marikana was a planned massacre

More coverage here

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