GNUnion invites you to network, self-organize, and stitch One Big Meshwork by linking like-minded peers and their network bases to each other strategically. We call everyone striving to build dynamic, free, libre, and open source spaces bottom up, to bring their collective agendas and strategies in touch and act upon them in an harmonized way.
GNUnion encourages all its peers to collectivize their individual social and communicational power to swarm around dynamical, creative and positive actions as much as possible. Such collective actions, as we have been witnessing, are capable of making a real impact at unpredicted magnitudes on chosen targets, regardless how large and powerful they are.
Combining peer to peer social relations and technologies and embedding them into all its internal and external processes and relationships, we ultimately aim at hyper-empowerment of all the nodes involved.
Below are the projects we are currently engaged in mutual support and co-empowering by networking and self-organizing using working spaces on the Organizing Network (ON) and Fair.coop, which are online collaborative social networking tools provided by comrades, at May First / People Link, Union Solidarity International and Fair.Coop.
Fair.Coop – Earth’s cooperative for economic fairness
Fair.coop is an open global cooperative which organizes itself through the Internet and remains off-limits from nation-state control.
Its aim is to make the transition to a new world by reducing as much as possible the economic and social inequalities among human beings, and at the same time gradually contribute to a new global wealth, accessible to all humankind as commons.
Fair.coop understands that the transformation to a fairer monetary system is a key element. Therefore, it proposes Faircoin as the cryptocurrency upon which to base its resource-redistribution actions and building of a new global economic system.
Website, network and workgroups: https://fair.coop/
LabourLeaks – Exposing wrongdoings in the workplace
Work groups will initially scan and analyze the leaked documents that are released by Wikileaks, like the Global Intelligence Files as well as other groups like Anonymous, GlobalLeaks. What will we be looking for in such meta-data will be about violations against producer, designer, users and consumer rights; such as stolen data, planned obsolescence, illegal and dangerous material use, capture and misuse of user-costumer data including selling the data to companies, production related threats to workers and public health.
Further more we will networgansie multi-lingual whistle-blowing activities, primarily targeting largest TNC networks.
We will turn the information into secure campaign intelligence, either to use in global actions we will launch as GNUnion, or feed-in and support ongoing union actions. In cases where there is an already organized independent union active, weather in the main company or its subsidiary, we will support their actions by designing and forging global online viral campaigns.
Website: https://www.labourleaks.org/
Working Group: https://on.usilive.org/groups/profile/322/labourleaks
SaysUs – from anonymous complaint to coordinated action
This web site is a proposal for the creation of a web facility, Says-Us, that allows anonymous complaints about fulfillment of basic needs, by people all over the world, in their own language. Says-Us will act as a portal, allowing millions of people to find each other and find thousands of organizations that will help unify activity and respond to injustice and oppression.
Website: http://saysus.net/
Workgroup: https://on.usilive.org/groups/profile/972/saysus-workgroup
ProductionProcessHacking
Using global chain mapping tools and mapeo method to create a network of user-worker-designer groups in order to recover the knowledge of entire production lines and supply chains incorporated from them by the management systems such as Taylorist, Kaizen, or Quality Chamber type of worker-society control mechanisms.
Workgroup: https://on.usilive.org/groups/profile/329/global-commodity-production-network-mapping
UnionUpgrading
GNUnion will help all other forms of unions at all organizational levels (base-membership-shop floor level-organization, management) in order to realize necessary organizational and networked transformations and to become hyperempowered organized networks strongly connected to the grassroots and society. We provide unions with cutting edge resources, links, ties, actions, exchanges, social media skill-sharing and self-education campaigns.
Workgroup: https://on.usilive.org/groups/profile/439/unionupgrading
Transnational Solidarity with Occuppied Factories
This group will strive to support transnational solidarity networks being formed between occupied factories around the world, with resources, actions, exchanges, social media skill-sharing and self-education campaigns.
Workgroup: https://on.usilive.org/groups/profile/340/transnational-solidarity-with-occuppied-factories
Social Network-, Wiki-, Meta- Strikes
Our first direct and mesh networked action will be a transnational meta-strike to target PRISM contractors. Priority objectives of the strike will be forcing the state elite and capital to hand-off private and public data, and stop abusing people and democratic rights for their commercial and tyrannical objectives. The action will reclaim what is ‘social’ and belong to people in societal communication and bring about mass awareness about using FLOSS!
We will bring high-tech and industrial workers, hackers, system admins, digital artists and activists and their powers coming from production, consumption, communication and knowledge -so a being social individuals and society.
Workgroup: https://on.usilive.org/groups/profile/323/mayfirst-meta-strike
P2PSolidFund
If you like to support GNUnion financially please do send not more than 5 unit (euro, usd, ytl, etc.) in form of the currency valid in your country, using the account details given here. The amount sent by peers for solidarity will be used only for covering project related costs and the amount over due will be shared with the projects we are collaborating with and other projects sharing the floss, p2p, commons, or hackers’ ethic principles. Account details including all transactions will be published publicly on the GNUnion website on the first day of every month here
AEÜ / ProletKult 2.0, Bülten, 1-7 Mayıs 2015
After its launch yesterday, on 1 May 2015, we are happy to announce that the Networked Labour University (ProletKult 2.0) and its sister projects; co-operations research unit NetworkedLabour.net (
GNUnion 