Vol. 30 No. 5 October-November 2011
FEATURE STORIES
13 Do Not Do This On Social Media
Avoid being Facebook "friends" with your boss; you're not friends, you're in a power relationship.
By Karen Wirsig
14 Beyond Borders
The Internet's greatest power is the fact that, unlike almost any other communications medium, it ignores national borders.
By Eric Lee
18 The Occupy Movement: A Photospread
A few images from Halifax, Toronto and B.C. that give the flavour of a mighty, worldwide uprising for change that was first reported on social media, while the mainstream ignored it.
Photographs by Tony Tracy, Joel Duff and Joshua Berson
Cover Story
23 Social (Justice!) Media
"The beauty of social media is that it enables a conversation - and you can't be afraid of it. In my view, it's part of my accountability," says Lana Payne, president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour. A cross-country check-up on how labour is using social media.
By Carlyn Zwarenstein
Labour's Climate Change Challenge
33 Finding Common Ground
Solutions that ignore poverty and hardship will not meet the test of justice, and they won't work.
By Jim Sinclair
35 Imagine It
Recreating the common-ground alliance between labour and environmentalists that existed at the turn of the century will be an enormous challenge.
By Mae Burrows
39 The Apollo Alliance
In Oregon, we have kept meeting with the environmental movement; kept talking, kept seeking to overcome what we believe is a false dichotomy between good jobs and climate policy.
By Barbara Byrd
DEPARTMENTS
5 Notes
Rick Mercer's Union Award * CLC Supports Occupiers * Occupy Movement Has Already Won * Two Sister Jane Letters * OHS Interactive Tool * Looking for Ladies Auxiliary Members * Media Literacy Week * SFL Charter Challenge
9 Our Times Tally
Chance that a union member in Britain, Canada and the United States "seldom" or "never" views their union's website: 1 in 4
By Sean Cain
Webwork
11 Top Ten Tips for Unions Online
Here's my take on the labour movement's most common errors and omissions.
By Derek Blackadder
17 Poetry
By Lee Maracle
Review
42 For the Win
The theme of this great science fiction, young-adult novel by Cory Doctorow is "Online or offline, you've got to organize to survive."
Review by Derek Blackadder
Commentary
44 Seeds of the Occupy Movement
The seeds of what the Occupy movements oppose were planted around 30 years ago, in the era of Reagan, Thatcher and Mulroney.
By Stephen Elliott-Buckley
