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Fwd: Reminder: 2. Text Call for 'Organizing Digital Labour and Digital Labour Organizing' Workshop

from ÖrsanŞenalp on May 21, 2014 12:52 AM
Dear friends and comrades,

The below text is copied from an open and collaborative kind of word
processor, called titanpad:
http://titanpad.com/digitallabourorganizing
It means any of you can view, modify, add and erase things from the
text on the pad, and the changes will be saved automatically.

It is a part of an un-funded, un-paid, volunteer, so free libre and
open source work in progress. The event is designed as a kick off for
a longer term collaborative series of spaces that combine online and
grounded meetings, and that are committed to cross network and
fertilise between similar efforts of strategy and vision development
for labour's and working classes' transnational reinvention. At the
same time we like to share expected outcomes, use values, with the
existing and most of the time blood-loosing independent trade union
movement, especially in the periphery of the capitalism; where it is
and gets more and more aggressive on the weaker. We believe those
collectives who sincerely strives to protect rights and livelihoods of
limited amount of oppressed people needs the most urgent solidarity
that can mean higher level self-empowerment for them.

Using the digital tools at hand, to bring together those who have been
developing, advancing, studying and -especially since 2011 uprisings-
intensively learning how to use to (self-)organise and mobilise, we
hope we can empower more of us does not matter where we are, for free
(as in free beer), while learning more from each other. Even if we
could contribute very modestly to the advancement of the general
struggle for social emancipation of all who desire and deserve it, we
will be grateful.

The below list of 'desired participants' are composed of names, aiming
more to give a better picture of what we have in mind, for the future
of the initiative. Some of the names did not yet fully confirm their
participation and some of them not even yet informed. Moreover the
list is missing many key and important names (biggest apologies for
that). However this is a beginning and our invitation is wide open to
all those reading these lines and seeing her/him self as part in this
or another unpaid, but might-pay-off-big-time cross-collaboration. If
you feel for labour's transnational renewal and/or for global social
emancipation this is your own event. So, please feel at home and help
yourself by adding your name and the information about yourself on the
titanpad (here: http://titanpad.com/digitallabourorganizing), besides
any other ideas, suggestions or modifications you wish to make.

Tomorrow between 14:00 and 20:30 UCT(UK time) we will be holding a
second test and preparatory exchange call, in order to think and test
together the webinar (web based seminar) tool we will be using at the
actual workshop. This time we will have an easier access point at
Union Solidarity International's website. Below steps are the steps
you need to follow in order to smoothly lead yourself to the same
webinar room we will be connected from Berlin on the 25th:
- Go to USi home: https://usilive.org/
- Find Big Blue Button Box on the right hand column and select Meeting
Room (Digital Labour)
- Write your name
- Commons attendee password is '123'
The instructions for joining are here:
https://usilive.org/using-usi-web-conferencing-for-your-branch-meeting/
(as meeting room we will use Digital Labour instead of Union Meeting
used in the instructions)

And if you like to please share the word with others. Looking forward
very much to meet and collaborate.
In global solidarity,
Orsan

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Description of the Workshop

The digitisation of the economies means major challenges for workers
and their unions globally. New ICTs create new structures and new
'cyber-works' that allow the state and capital to reorganise
production, consumption, finance and politics alongside global
production commodity networks. While we lose social and labour rights
that we won after giving long and painful democratic struggles in the
centre and the periphery. Yet, the developments in the ICTs also bear
great potential for us when re-organising ourselves. The workshop
creates a space for fruitful practical and solution focused discussion
to exchange and work on efficient digital tools and tactics, core
issues, main problems and useful lessons about digital labour
(self-)organising, especially of the informal and precarious workers'.
We invite key labour activists, organiser and researchers who are
engaged and observing the most recent experiences, to share ideas and
collaborate.

Methodology of the Workshop
We will start with a brief framing. Then based on short and to the
point interventions from key unionists, labour and social justice
activists and/or thinkivists on the relevant topics, we will turn to
audience and ask for factual, practical, critical, and strategic
input. We expect to bring about the collective intelligence through
dynamic and informed brain-storm and exchange amongst those who
participate in the physical and the cyber meeting rooms. We will be
simultaneously compiling a material that can be modified, reproduced,
and shared digitally with wider communities.


When and Where
Workshop will take place as part of the Labour Start
(http://LabourStart.org) Global Crisis - Global Solidarity Conference
(http://LabourStart.org/2014 ) in Berlin, 23-25 May 2014

See the full program of the conference here:
http://www.labourstart.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Programme_complete_en_vers140519-2.pdf

Exact location on the program and the venue:
Workshops Track 6, – Media culture and culture of media
Space: Room 12
Slot: 9:00-10.30AM, Sunday 25 May, 2014
(Local time Convertor: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html)

 How to join the workshop online via our webinar room:
- Go to USi home: https://usilive.org/
- Find Big Blue Button Box on the right hand column and select Meeting
Room (Digital Labour)
- Write your name
- Commons attendee password is '123'
The instructions for joining are here:
https://usilive.org/using-usi-web-conferencing-for-your-branch-meeting/
(as meeting room we will use Digital Labour instead of Union Meeting
used in the instructions)

Draft flow and desired contributors

-Opening, welcome and the solution focused framework

-Analytics of the digital labour and digital worker:

  Ursula Huws,

  Vincent Mosco (tbc) – Union density and knowledge workers, are they
unionising?

  Christian Fusch (tbc) – Core issues with regard to the virtual
workers and   organising?

  Trebor Schulz (tbc) – What is the level of exploitation for the
digital labour, what does it say for the established union structures,
local/international?

  Peter Waterman - Digital labour communication today, what key roles
it can play for networked labour internationalism?

  Hilary Wainwright

  Marco Berlinguer

  Christian Siefkes

  Stefan Meretz

  Silvia Federici

  ....


Digital tools and the unions

 Walton Patland (Union Solidarity International - USI and
Cyberunions): What are the digital tools out there can serve to
reinvent labour internationalism

 Stephan Mahood (May First / Peoples Link and Cyberiunions) – What
kind of tools and why?

 Peter Hall Jones (NUN): What can be the elements of working social
network unionism?

  Derek Blackedder (LabourStart): Facebook and the history of the
problems with corporate social media?

  Alex White: Tips for unions to organise and campaign online

  Jack Bos / Irena Marmelstain (FNV Bondgenoten): most successful
experiences you had with social media tools at national level?

  Duck Zwart: using digital tools for local union work

  Umar Karatepe, Kivanc Eliacik (DISK): Gezi, labour, social media

  Mark Dilley - What and how can Wikis help unions

  .....

Informal labour and grassroots (self-)organising with digital tools

  Dave Hollis (NetzwerkIT, UK/Gr): How to organise safely using
digital communication tools ?

  Steve Zeltzer (LabourTech, USA)

  Pat Horn (Street.Net) problems with international informal labour organising

  Sarah Horowitz (Freelancers Union, USA) How did you manage to
organise  freelancers in the US

  Kati Sipp (Hack the Union, USA)

  Onder Ozdemir (LabourNet, CapulTV Turkey) What made CapulTV the voice of Gezi?

   Vlad (Global Revolution)

   Mehmet (NaberMedya) What

   Micah White (OWS), Justin Wades (OWS)

   Bernardo Guiterrez, Carolina (15M)

  - OWS-Labour Workgroup / 99 Picket Lines
 - China Labour Bulletin
 - Sacom

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