[p2p-research] GAIA - Global Alliance for Immediate Alteration

[Roberto Verzola]

There is another GAIA, in existence for many years now: the Global 
Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, also called the Global 
Anti-Incinerator Alliance. It is a very active environmental group that 
works closely with Greenpeace.

Roberto

Michel Bauwens wrote:
> awful name for what could be a good idea!
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Mathieu ONeil 
> <mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au <mailto:mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au>> wrote:
>
>     Looks like these folks could use some input from / are on the same
>     track as _some_ segments of the P2P community?
>
>     cheers
>
>     Mathieu
>
>     -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-
>
>     GAIA - Global Alliance for Immediate Alteration
>     New Transnational Social Network Union to Crack Capitalism and
>     Protect Life, Peace and Justice on Earth
>
>     http://openfsm.net/projects/gaia/summary
>
>     This space is an experiment for constructing a new type of
>     transnational social network union that aims at bringing individual
>     industrial and non-industrial workers in the Global North, the
>     precariat in the Global South; peasants, domestic, immigrant and
>     jobless workers together with social movement activists from other
>     struggle fields, activist/researchers and many others who has to work
>     in order to reproduce his/her life and to provide an open space where
>     we can connect our networks and struggles to each other.
>     GAIA project is an open invitation for inventing a world wide,
>     common,
>     grassroots, wiki social movement union that will aim an immediate
>     alteration of capitalist social, cultural, and political order.
>     Hundreds of millions not if billions of workers in the world are out
>     of reach for the established trade union mechanisms and structures,
>     they do not have any protection at all. Peter Waterman calls them
>     'Labour's others', for some others they are the new working class;
>     the
>     precariat composed of people who holds no property and even secure
>     job.
>     What kind of trade union structure will be able to go beyond the on
>     going problems, and the crisis of unionism that had been born out of
>     those well known problems, and will become the change maker of our
>     time.
>     Can open space online social networking ensemble a model for such
>     future union organisation through the internet?
>     There are already many good examples of action and organising taking
>     place via the net and incredible results are getting reached, as it
>     happened in 2007 when financial support has been mobilized from the
>     wealthier segments of the Western working classes for the Ford
>     worker's first ever strike organised in Russia since the beginning of
>     the 20th Century.
>     For already some times online social networking is gaining ground as
>     an important and dynamic form of communication and collective action
>     tool. Many activists are involved today in one or another social
>     networks on the net, as well as on the real world. Time has came to
>     transform this tool into a new generation social movement union.
>     Therefore we need comprehensive discussion on how can this happen,
>     would it work, how would we build and gain legal ground for such a
>     union, is it possible, or necessary? How would such union look like,
>     be governed and function against the offensive coming from the
>     employer and the state?
>     'Social Network Unionism' working group has recently been created
>     with
>     the aim of promoting such discussion and providing space for
>     comprehensive work in order to experiment with Social Network Union
>     idea by utilizing the opportunity created by UnionBook.
>     With the creation of GAIA space within Open WSF, I would like to
>     invite all who involved one way or other in labour and trade union
>     movements, environmental justice activists, women rights activists,
>     immigrants' rights activists, water justice activists, information
>     activists, activist students and others from other struggle fileds to
>     join and contribute to build GAIA space together as network of
>     networks that can stop capitalism and save the peoples and the mother
>     earth.
>     Please join GAIA, invent discussion groups on below or any other
>     relevant topics and lead the experiement to save our common future:
>
>     Principles of GAIA:
>     Objectives of GAIA:
>     Demands of GAIA:
>     Ethics of the GAIA:
>     Management and decision making for GAIA:
>     Fellowship of GAIA:
>     Applications/tools that are needed for functioning of GAIA as a
>     genuine transnational grassroots union:
>
>     Please join and contribute GAIA and spread the word. in solidarity!
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