Users' groups must go to bat for their users

The traditional users' group has largely been a semi-informal, unstructured gathering of users of some particular technological or electronic development, particularly those developments which are computer-based or oriented. The earliest users' groups, and many current users'...

[H]ow easy and quick it is to become poor.

peter.reardon: on poverty and the fallacy of corporate bailouts: - How useful to have this World Bank report available in support of  the poorest in society!The article, by Marina Litvinsky and published by IPS would at first glance seem to be essential reading for...

How Hitler took power

There seems to be room for thought after reading this article.In 2008 it may not reflect any particular country, entirely, but there do appear to be points here and there that amount to "unfriendly" political and...

SHORT-TERMS POLITICS

Monks are dying for starvation. Monks who started the protests two weeks ago in Burma, are now held in their monasteries, kept at close watch by the repression of the army. The militia prevent...

Union Drive USA

"This law will be the New Deal of the 21st century if it is passed. Employee Free Choice Act Hearings Begin in Congress. But the right wing is mobilizing to oppose it. Click on link below to read the whole article"

Free Unions

" Here is an interesting post on the need for 'free democratic worker controlled unions' not state controlled workers associations. How U.S. and other global corporations utilize government-controlled unions created by authoritarian nationalist regimes even as they...

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