Re: <nettime> How Silicon Valley’s CEOs

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

On 01/31/2014 04:26 AM, d.garcia wrote about:

> the wider problem of how to re-connect political activism to some form
> of re-booted labor movement able garner credibility from the workforce
> in these van garde creative economies exemplified by Silicon Valley

Well, if the Valley is the hivemind of global management, maybe we 
should look a little farther north, to Seattle, where folks work, unions 
are historically strong, the counter-globalization movement started, 
Microsoft does its thing AND they've elected a Socialist Alternative mayor:

http://inthesetimes.com/article/16140/kshama_sawant_the_great_red_hope

What's more (Orsan is gonna be happy about this) she's a software engineer!

Coming to a vanguard near you? Everywhere in the US could use a $15 
minimum wage, that's for sure...

Thanks also for the great post Orsan. I am gonna check out the Kees van 
der Pijl book.

BH


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