3 days ago
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Friday, 24 February 2012
Monday, 20 February 2012
Absolute scandal...
...and where is the outcry? Scandal - Left Charities targetted in million dollar theft BY THE COMPANY WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO LOOK AFTER THEIR FUNDS! From Non-Profits Quarterly...
Sunday, 19 February 2012
SLLU Newsletter
September "Event"
We are going to plan a huge event for September - It is the 6th birthday of Left Unity in SL.
This event will raise money for Amnesty and RAWA and also celebrate all of the organisations in SL who challenge the current Capitalist inversion of socialism - ie socialism for the rich - and further impoverishment of the working and poor.
Please contact me Plot Tracer if you want to get involved!
FUNDS
Our funds are at L$50,000
We have donated L$6974 to RAWA
We pay L$150 per week for listing the Red Star Bar, L$50 per week for listing the Feminist Movement, L$50 per week for listing our book depository, L$50 per week for listing the SLLU Village, L$50 per week for listing Unity station and L$50 a week for listing the Wall Against Homophobia. = L$400 per week.
You can donate at donation prims scattered throughout SLLU village.
Land and Tier
Comrades- it is clear that a lot of SLLU land is going unused. If you are a group or activist individual who could use the land to educate agitate and organise, please contact Plot Tracer with a proposal! IM or email (email more likely to reach me - plottracer@googlemail.com )
Comrades - if you are paying for SL, could you add any of your unused tier to our group land and money tab? This is free for you to do - you are only adding tier you are paying for that you are not using. This allows us to maintain our village and offer it to comrades to use for education/ activism for free.
Thursday, 16 February 2012
SL Left Unity - We can see the future!
...and it is bright, comrades.
... and it is contained within the SLLU Charter and Aims and Principles.
One of my favourites among an orchard of cherries, is the first of the Aims and Principles.
"1.1 The group offers the means of a left environment, the term Unity does not claim anything since there is no monopoly. It is a proposition."
We are a MEANS OF A LEFT ENVIRONMENT. There is no monopoly. We are a space and a forum for the left to plan, meet, have fun, discuss, build and educate each other.
If you are an activist and need space to do any of these things, contact me inworld or email plottracer@googlemail.com
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Sunday, 11 December 2011
see you soon...
Comrades
As many of my friends in SL know, I have not been able to
come in to work with you on SL Left Unity projects over the past few
months. I have not forgotten you, and I
am still very much in support of the Left Unity project we began way back in
2006.
I have documented my part in SLLU from 2006 on this blog and
also on http://plotsplot.blogspot.com,
so won’t go over all of the superb campaigns and events that have made me proud
to be part of. The comrades and real
friendships I have made when helping in different left projects have been beautiful
and inspiring and I know many of them are going to continue working in SL on
projects that educate and inspire.
I am glad to see SLLU and SLLU members at the heart of the
Occupy SL movement. This is an important
movement and the left need to be a loud voice within it (as well as without –
real change will always need critical friends to help steer it towards fair
change).
I will be coming and going from SL when I can, but my real
life is becoming much too busy at the moment to let me immerse in our work in
SL as I would like to. SL is extremely
time consuming, and this is doubly so when planning events and bringing
comrades together through agitation and conversation. This, of course, can change, so I am not
bowing out of SL completely. My activity
from December to January of this year was intense because I was at home with
broken bones, and coming into SL in the first place back in 2006 was because of
an illness – so I imagine there will be times will be able to come in and help
out in the coming years.
Please – if you see me inworld, contact me and let me know
how SLLU and other social justice projects in SL are going.
Thanks for all the fish.
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Occupy SL website: http://occupysl.org/
I have set up a website for Occupy SL this weekend: http://occupysl.org/
That link will take you to the blog. Look there for a link to the Forums. In the Forums I have created categories for each of the working groups to talk and coordinate. This should be where the working groups can discuss and come to agreement on important issues, ideas, and actions.
I still need to add a lot of introductory content to the blog and the forums. And everyone needs to add content too. If you are a good writer and want to contribute, please let me know. Everybody, let me know what you think needs to be added to the site. Thanks! ~Merriam~
OCCUPY SL WEBSITE/ forum!
New Occupy SL site HERE
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Three working groups (or "committees") were created.
1. Direct Action working group
2. Media Communications working group
3. Facilitation working group
These working groups, or committees, are open groups of ppl who are talking together to generate ideas, discuss and work out the details and feasibility, and then to present and make proposals in GA meetings. A working group is simply a collection of ppl who are focused on one issue or aspect of OSL. Anybody can be a part of a working group by just "showing up" i.e. presenting yourself to the group, listening to what is being said, and offering input. You may be involved in as many working groups as you care to keep up with.
Working groups are not new SL groups. They won't be posting their own groups notices. Though they can use the OSL sl group to make Notices for meetups and solicit for ideas. I'm looking into setting up online forums the working groups can use for asynchonous discussions.
The Direct Action working group's focus is to work on the overall Occupy SL campaign and specific protest actions or other kinds of direct action. Contact any1 Gynoid to get involved with that group.
The Media working group is tasked with developing a media policy and discussing how we should talk and interact with the media in sl. Primarily, this was in regard to non-OSL bloggers. There were concerns about how OSL might get represented if we weren't careful. Contact Flashing Merlin to get involved with that group
The Facilitation working group is to review and refine how we do meetings and how we communicate to work together in OSL. This group would talk with other working groups and develope the agenda for the next GA. Contact Merriam Galaxy to get involved with that group.
*these working group contacts are not meant to be leaders, but are just points of contact for now to get ppl connected.
There is still room for other working groups around the meat-and-potatos of what OSL can/should be doing: specfic issues (unemployment, banking reform, electorial reform, foreclosures, student debt, public welfare and cuts to services, war, poverty, etc), how to do education in sl on these issues, teaching ppl in sl about what OWS is about, how to get involved in rl, activism in general, direct democracy and other models of political organization ...and whatever else ppl want to focus on. People are encouraged to start working groups on their own and..Get Involved!
At the 4th GA meeting we also had announcements from ppl. Miso Susanova told us about OccupyLEA (Linden Endowment for the Arts) and how they are protesting Linden Lab policies that are hurting the artist community in sl. She said that A LOT of artists got onboard with that and also joined OSL. OccupyLEA is losing its space at the LEA sandbox but has been offered and encouraged to setup on Caerleon Arts Collective sims, a big name in SL. Caerleon is about to lose their sims because they can't meet the new tier (rent) schedule that LL has established.
From the letter Miso received from Caerleon Arts Collective:
OCCUPY SL! Hi everyone. As you know, after building SL from the unpaid collective labor of thousands of artists and educators, LL is unceremoniously evicting us by doubling our tier. In the handful of months we have left, we invite you to OCCUPY SL by establishing a tent city of artists and others on the three Caerleon sims.
We want artworks, meetings, discussions, a General Assembly and, in general, joyous mayhem. Press are invited.
Having the arts community onboard with us in OSL is HUGE and great resource. Many artists are already coming to us wanting to do projects.
Flashing Merlin contacted Rodrick Linden this last week asking him to donate space for a virtual Zucotti Park. Rodvik has yet to receive a response. Flashing also contacted Hamlet Au, of New World Notes Blog. Hamlet Au wants to write about OSL, but there was hesitation voiced from members at the meeting on whether Hamlet would present us well in his blog. This in part lead to the formation of the Media working group.
Wara Ysabel from Bolivia shared this about what is happening in her country:
[2011-10-26 19:39:36] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): thanks .. Well, I am from Bolivia, last 9 weeks we have supporting an indigenous machs from low lands to La Paz, 600 Km long.
[2011-10-26 19:40:09] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): the reason for that, was the president, pretended to build a higwayt trhoug the National Park and Indigenous terrytry (TIPNIS)
[2011-10-26 19:40:28] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): well, what happend from the march start (1200 person aprox)
[2011-10-26 19:40:45] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): we was warking very hard in many aspects
[2011-10-26 19:41:15] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): 1) Sharing, educating and publishing news (when media stop informing, so walls start talking)
[2011-10-26 19:41:42] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): 2) Humanitty support to the marchers And we have aprooblem ehere
[2011-10-26 19:42:00] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): at day 35, police and ppl is close to Evo Morales (coca growers)
[2011-10-26 19:42:28] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): bloked the march, and close the ways to give them even water
[2011-10-26 19:42:42] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): note the march include 102 childs, womens, and olds
[2011-10-26 19:43:11] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): on september 25, police violente breake the march, it was very very sad
[2011-10-26 19:43:15] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): i will share with you some videos later
[2011-10-26 19:43:42] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): but that event, makes all the country join. Several ocuppys was made in cityes
[2011-10-26 19:44:12] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): and the ppol start supporting the march with everything. from water to clowns to make childs be better
[2011-10-26 19:44:23] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): ok, after 66 days and 600km
[2011-10-26 19:44:32] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): march reach La PAz
[2011-10-26 19:44:45] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): and finally, the goverment off the 480USD millons porject
[2011-10-26 19:44:59] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): so, for now, we won, and most important, we learned
[2011-10-26 19:45:30] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): the riught way to the union, is the difference betwean every one
[2011-10-26 19:45:44] Wara Ysabel (vampi.zapatero): thanks, and congrast for ocuppySL
So, very cool... :)
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