Movement-Space-Movement cycle & Linkages between Zapatista-WaterWar-Seattle-WSF-ESF-[JSC-ALTERSUMMIT] and Arab Spring/ 15M /OCCUPY – I
First post of a series of key documents that trace back the efforts have been made for the creation of a Globally Networked -preferably in a p2p distributed way- and reinvented Labour Movement, what we call on this blog Social Network Unionism.
Below video is the interview with Marco Berlinguer, who have played a key role in coordination and faciliation of the Labour & Globalisation network in Belem and afterwards. Peter Waterman’s critical response in L&G email list with several attachments gives a good snapshot of the process under taken at the time.
In the eve of a global strikes being planned, as the first time in human history, and there is a growing globally self-organised grassroots movements, it can be helpful to revisit these important documents.
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[WSF-Labor and Globalization] Will Alt. Glob Labour Network Take Off in Belem?
Will an Alternative Global Labour Network Take Off and Take Shape at the World Social Forum, Belem, 2009?
Peter Waterman, p.waterman at inter.nl.net
INTRODUCTION
This is a contribution to discussion that has been taking place atvarious Social Forums and related events over the last year or two. Much of this has been within the ‘Labour and Globalisation’ (L&G) network. It has been something of a haphazard process since the network has no fixed abode, far less an office or officers, and its rather attractive list,http://openesf.net/projects/labour-and-globalization/summary, has been regretably under-utilised and was affected, late-2008, by some infantile disorder (of a digital kind). I expressed my confusion at that moment (Waterman 2008a). The problem has now been corrected.