Today I had to fight with a company which, as far as I am concerned, is quite nicely taking the piss out of us. I now realize that even in the companies that do not have the call centre/customer services on the other side of the planet, the departments are totally separated, specially those most in contact with the client: the one actually producing the service and the one receiving our complaints and tantrums.
- activism
- Advertising
- Anti-capitalism
- Apartheid
- Aqraba
- Benefits
- Bi'Lin
- Brighton
- Capitalist system
- Castille
- CCPT
- checkpoints
- Christians
- Christmas
- Church
- Churches
- Co-operatives
- Colnbrook
- Corporations
- Dataveillance
- debris
- demonstration
- detention centres
- Development
- Dissent
- EAPPI
- ethnic cleansing
- Freelancing
- Free Software
- G8
- Green Line
- guns
- harassment
- Harmondsworth
- harvest
- Hebron
- History
- home
- Hospital
- Housing
- How-to
- human rig
- human rights
- IMF
- Immigration
- Indymedia
- Infotainment
- Int'l Finalcial Institutions
- Israel
- Jayyous
- Jerusalem
- Journalism
- Kawawis
- Labour Rights
- land theft
- Literature
- London
- Mainstream Media
- martyr
- McDonalds
- Mexico
- migration
- Nablus
- Nature
- NoBorders
- Nottingham
- NUJ
- occupation
- Offspring
- Palestine
- Parenthood
- Parenting
- Patents
- PFI
- Police
- PPP
- Precariousness
- Privatisation
- privilege
- Qalandia
- Radio
- Ramallah
- RampART
- refugees
- religion
- repression
- school
- settlements
- settlers
- sexism
- siege
- Social Centres
- Software
- soldiers
- Spain
- Squatting
- Technology
- tension
- The Guardian
- treaties
- trees
- Unions
- University
- victim
- Violence
- volunteering
- wall
- WB
- Welfare
- WTO
- Yanoun
- zero hours
Audios IMF/WB
Today there was this lecture about international financial institutions in the Institute of Autonomy. So there I went after being, once more, studio manager in Tube Radio.
Advertising
Another day as a guest in the lunchtime show. There was an unusual jam near Victoria that made the bus journey double in time, so at one point I got to the tube… well, the advertisements were actually different from those I saw last time!
Audios 03
Here are the audios about privatisation of education and other public services in the UK – they call it private finance initiative, public private partnership… but all the interviewees know that it is privatisation.
Tube 05
Well well, the evangelising experience changed radically today. It is very gratifying when you evangelise and people seem receptive. I could even announce this website, No to software patents.
McDonalds
A friend told me this morning, quite happily, that he has no problem eating in McDonalds. I got quite angry.
Credit History
>A friend of mine wants to pay his phone bill monthly but they are not letting him to do so. Why? Because he is a bl**dy foreigner. I guess they ave asked him how long he has been living here and since he has not been here more than 3 years, they have refused him as a customer. Why did they offered this to him in the first place?
Audio files
Not long ago, a friend explained to me the fact that, although technology nowadays allows to transfer my recorded two hours from my minidisk on to the computer in 20 seconds, the corporations that make such technology do not want to allow anyone to do this.
Blogs
Apparently this quote, contrary to what I was told when it was included in the Financial Crimes, is genuine:
‘One night, probably in 1880, John Swinton, then the preeminent New York journalist, was the guest of honour at a banquet given him by the leaders of his craft. Someone who knew neither the press nor Swinton offered a toast to the independent press. Swinton outraged his colleagues by replying:
“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
