Successful Collaboration on Online Security Practices
At the Brecht Forum on February 22, 2010 Radical Reference joined MF/PL and NYC-based techies to develop 10 best security practices to preserve free and secure online collaboration. View the results here.
May First/People Link and the Yes Men fight censorshop
MFPL risks downtime to defend the first amendment rights of the Yes Men.
In these short videos, May First/People Link Co-Director Alfredo Lopez discusses some of the issues our organization has been grappling with and talking about: issues that we believe are of critical importance to both the Internet and the Progressive movement. Each of Alfredo's presentations is about 15 minutes long, using Flash format. Feel free to comment.The book about the Internet for progressive activists.
"...a must read for anyone who is wanting to organize meaningful social and political movements."
Ana Willem (USSF Tech 'Zine)
MF/PL Co-Director Alfredo Lopez reflects on the relationship between the Internet and the Left
MF/PL Co-Director Alfredo Lopez speaks about the concept of the Radical Techie and the problems attached to it.
What is Free and Open Source and why do we feel it should be a progressive movement priority.
MF/PL Co-Director Alfredo Lopez explores the concepts behind the May First theory of the Organic Internet.
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* A very long time ago, almost forty years
* I had a mentor whose name was Arthur Felberbaum
* Arthur is probably best known as the founder of the Brecht Forum here in New York City
* Arthur used to say that intellectuals, analysts
* people who are looking at things theoretically and analytically
* have to abstract. Which means,
Over 40 participants at the Foro Social de las Americas in Guatemala joined a dozen activists at New York's Brecht Forum for the first bi-continental on-line workshop in the Forum's history: writing a ten point document of Internet rights for the Hemisphere's peoples.
The event was sponsored and coordinated by May First/People Link.
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