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Tag Archives: Unions
Grunwick and Lucas 40 Years On: Union Rights, Workers’ Control – London – 21st July 2016
Screening of The Year of the Beaver and The Lucas Plan, with discussion and brief talks by Kierra Box (Grunwick 40) and Solfed. 22nd July 7pm at LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street, E1 (nearest tubes Whitechapel, Aldgate East.) Organised by Breaking … Continue reading
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Tagged Events, London, Socially useful technology, Unions, Work
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Celebrating the Fortieth Anniversary of the Lucas Plan
Together with trade unionists and organisations from the peace and environment movements, Breaking The Frame is helping to organise the celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the Lucas Plan. The Lucas Plan was a pioneering effort by workers at … Continue reading
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Tagged Arms trade, Automation, Environment, Events, Lucas Plan, Military technology, Peace, Renewable energy, Robotics, Trident, Unions
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Email Encryption for Beginners – Bristol – 22nd Jan 2016
Friday 22nd January, 7:30-8:30 Hydra bookshop, Old Market, Bristol An ordinary e-mail is like a postcard without an envelope: anybody who can put their hands on it can read it. Unlike a postcard, an email is copied (rather than moved) … Continue reading
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Tagged Activism, Bristol, Digital technology, Encryption, Events, Journalism, Snooper's charter, Snowden, Surveillance, Technology, Unions
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Breaking the Frame Gathering – May 2014 – videos and reports
May 2nd to 5th 2014, Unstone Grange, Derbyshire Skip to videos Over Mayday bank holiday weekend a wide range of environmental, workplace and social activists met at The Breaking the Frame gathering, to discuss how different technologies impact our lives … Continue reading
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Tagged Anarchism, Derbyshire, Econexus, Events, Feminism, Gathering, Gender, Luddism, Luddites200, No Dash for Gas, Nuclear power, Red Pepper Magazine, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Socialism, Stop Hinkley Campaign, Technocracy, Technology, The Land Magazine, TTIP, Unions, Videos
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Public meeting – The politics of alternative technology and workers’ plans – Jan 2014 – report
The January Breaking the Frame café discussion focussed on ‘alternative’ approaches to technology development by green and left movements but, as Patrick Mulvaney, who is an advisor to Practical Action (formerly the Intermediate Technology Development Group; ITDG) pointed out, at … Continue reading
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Tagged Agriculture, Appropriate technology, Biotechnology, Capitalism, Climate change, E F Schumacher, Environment, Events, Food, Illich, Industrialism, International Development, La Vie Campesina, Lucas Plan, Luddism, Million Climate Jobs Campaign, Neoliberalism, NGOs, Nuclear power, Practical Action, Socialism, Synthetic biology, Technocracy, Technofixes, Technology, Unions, Work
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Breaking the Frame Gathering – Derbyshire – July 9-12 2015
BREAKING THE FRAME 2: Second Gathering on the Politics of Technology, July 9-12 2015, Unstone Grange, Derbyshire. Book Online SITE MOBILE NUMBER 07591058499 Organised by CorporateWatch, Scientists for Global Responsibility, Luddites200 and others Come to BTF2 for a fresh conversation … Continue reading
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Tagged Appropriate technology, Derbyshire, Energy, Environment, Events, Food, Gathering, GCHQ, Gender, Health, Infrastructure, Military technology, Mining, Privacy, Social control, Technocracy, Technology, Unions, Work
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Automation and the Threat to Jobs – London – 23rd May 2015
Automation and the Threat to Jobs: What Response from the Labour Movement? Event to discuss how unions can respond to the threat of robotics and automation. May 23rd (tbc) 2015, London.
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Tagged Automation, Events, Labour movement, London, Robotics, Technology, Unions, Work
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