<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">saul ostrow</b> <<a href="mailto:sostrow@gate.cia.edu">sostrow@gate.cia.edu</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
workers of the world unite to virtually break your material chains<br>Why a strike,, I wonder why they don't just take over the company,<br>set up a soviet, or grant themselves all the benefits they want given<br>everything is possible in SL - maybe because they realize this
<br>doesn't translate into much of anything in material life -</blockquote><div><br>well, as stephen colbert recently pointed out, this is merely an extension of the essential (and quinetessentially american) right to self-determination . . .
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http://www.comedycentral.com/motherload/player.jhtml?ml_video=91912&ml_collection=&ml_gateway=&ml_gateway_id=&ml_comedian=&ml_runtime=&ml_context=show&ml_origin_url=/shows/the_colbert_report/videos/most_recent/index.jhtml%3Fstart%3D16&ml_playlist=&lnk=&is_large=true
</a><br><br><b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ysy2ex">http://tinyurl.com/ysy2ex</a></b><br> <br>transcript at:<br><a href="http://www.nofactzone.net/?p=2065">http://www.nofactzone.net/?p=2065</a><br><br>more interesting at the moment are the efforts of LabourStart in the UK in support of Fremantle workers: <
<a href="http://www.wewillnotbesilenced.org/">http://www.wewillnotbesilenced.org/</a>>. thanks to threats from Fremantle, the ISP shut down their site, but LS moved it offshore (see: <<a href="http://barnetunison.blogspot.com/">
http://barnetunison.blogspot.com/</a>>). it is imo a tasty irony, and a great story. they clearly had got under Fremantle's skin with the email campaign. and now offshore doesn't just mean corporations employing cheap, non-unionized labor. corporations hoist on their own petard, maybe?
<br><br>i guess we'll see.<br><br>j<br></div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Jeffrey Fisher<br>DemocracyInAction.org | Director of Community Development<br>o: 202.558.2808 x115 | m:773.960.3599<br><a href="http://www2.democracyinaction.org/blog">
http://www2.democracyinaction.org/blog</a> <br><br>*Wiring the progressive movement*