Will American society continue to exclude ordinary citizens from important choices about the design and development of new technologies and information systems? Most likely there will continue to be unequal power over decisions about what is built and why, intensive efforts to hem in and control people’s lives in both work and consumerism, and present our future as something nonnegotiable.
Read more »
En los últimos meses, ha estado de boca en boca un nombre: “Facebook”. Facebook es el nombre de un Sitio en la Internet que sirve de herramienta social para conectar gente ( www.facebook.com ). A este tipo de páginas es lo que se le llaman Sitios de Redes Sociales (SRS).
Read more »One of the founding fathers of "free software" and an esteemed elder of the hacking community, Richard Stallman has made defending people's freedoms his life's work. That usually means supplying hackers with software and attacking copyright law. But as he tells Michael Reilly, his advocacy of personal freedoms extends to the protection of true democracy and of the human rights increasingly being trampled on in the US and elsewhere
Is it true you used to live in your office?
Yes it is. I lived there for half of the 1980s and most of the 1990s.
Read more »The Third International Forum on Free Knowledge was recently held in Maracaibo, Venezuela, bringing together many people interested in the development of free software worldwide. One reason Venezuela chose to host this event is that, in January 2006, their new free software law came into effect, which mandates that all government agencies migrate to free software over a two-year period. I was invited to speak about the use of free software in telecommunications. Many of the events and presentations at the event were, much like mine, of a rather technical nature.
Read more »U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates recently announced that he is supporting a pause in U.S. troop reduction in Iraq; it is a decision that is strongly opposed by socialists throughout the nation and a vast majority of the U.S. population. It is now certain that President Bush and Congress will maintain a large military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan throughout 2008 and into 2009.
Read more »Here comes the Security and Prosperity Partnership, but -- what security? whose prosperity?
by Katherine Sciacchitano
Which is closer to your vision of North America?
Vision A: Three interdependent countries with vibrant social movements, respect for labor rights, and environmentally sustainable economies anchored in provision of social needs and respect for cultural autonomy?
video Our Web, Not Theirs
In Who’s Interest is the Internet Being Shaped?
Media power takes on new dimensions as we move into an “always on” digital mediascape, where questions loom concerning not just the media that citizens will consume, but also the digital environment they will consume it in. At this pivotal time the Internet is becoming evermore subjugated to commercial interests of a cartel of domineering big media corporations.
some other titles I was thinking of...they're all good:
Why Anarchy is better than Democracy
Why Anarchism is the perfect Democracy
Why Democracy is inherently flawed and inferior to anarchism
Why Democracy fails at its intended goals
Read more »
:Descargar Video alta calidad:
Descargar Banda Sonora:
La Plataforma - "MTDAV"
La Plataforma - "Si hay que pelear"
Figura histórica del Black Panther Party (BPP) y de la Black Liberation Army (BLA), Ashanti Alston sigue luchando por la transformación de la sociedad estadounidense y por la liberación de su comunidad de la opresión económica y del racismo. En entrevista concedida a la Red Voltaire, este militante menciona las formas actuales de lucha y expresa su admiración por los movimientos árabes de resistencia.
Read more »Socialism is incompatible with Catholic doctrine, but by their
conception of the universe and of man, either because reaches two
institutions that are cornerstones of Christian civilization, namely
property and the family.
By the mere fact of being hostile to property and the family, socialism
would be incompatible with Catholic doctrine, although not have a
misconception of the universe and of man. This is a fact that
highlights, and on which, for how important it is, we in this chapter.
If this is the incompatibility between socialism and the Catholic
This is the Winter edition of "The socialist" zine, with interesting articles
about the march on Burger King, Digital revolution that comments very fast about the
radical and underground movement on internet networks till the free software and open source days and why is Free Software ideal for a socialist to use.
About the Socialist Part:
For thirty-six years since its apogee in the late 1960s during the worldwide movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam, the global Left, including the Left in the United States, has been in decline. Globally, perhaps the most significant causal factor accelerating decline at the beginning of the 1990s was the collapse of the Soviet Union as a perceived alternative to dominant capitalist economic and governmental modes.
Read more »Max Elbaum's Revolution in the Air is a damn good book, one that should be must reading for all those who consider themselves part of the left today and for future generations of socialists as well.
Elbaum has done the left a great service in crafting this incisive history and analysis of the rise and demise of the preeminent revolutionary socialist political current that emerged from the radicalization of the 1960s, broadly definable as Maoist, which he calls the "New Communist Movement".
The contradictory meanings of "communism:" both as a society of freedom and as one of totalitarianism. What Bakuknin, Kropotkin, and Marx had meant by communism and how this term was changed by the Leninists.
Read more »t is no secret that the US government funds dissident and "human rights" groups in Cuba. See, for example, the official USAID website. There you see budgeted items for groups such as Cuba Free Press and CubaNet (often the source of anti-Cuban "news" at the soc.culture.cuba news group). These items, even in themselves being several thousand times the average Cuban's annual income, are an enormous sum of money. Try to imagine the reaction of the FBI to an amount several thousand times the average American's annual income from a foreign government to subversive groups in the USA.
Read more »VISCA, VISCA, VISCA LA NOSTRA TERRA LLIURE!
VISCA ELS PAÏSOS CATALANS!
España, dejad de oprimir pueblos, dejad de asesinar a independentstas, vuestro terrorismo es exagerado y cobarde, luchais para robar y matar, nosotros luchamos por nuestra libertad.
VISCA TERRA LLIURE!
