Organized Power/Notes

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This is a subpage of Organized Power.

For test page...

  • Overall: attractive page.
  • Logo
  • Catch phrase: "Connecting the ideas of working people everywhere."
  • Streaming or 360 image of Portland.
  • Working people faces: slideshow?
  • Contract page.
  • Membership page. (Acknowledgement of new members.)
  • Invitation page. Ability to invite others.
  • Search tool to type in job number that yields:
  1. Description of job
  2. Materials
  3. Physical site
  4. Map to location
Elements format to a printable page that allows searcher to hit "print" and get a page with all the above data.
  • Education page: Education pages can cover any aspect of training. First aid, specific job technique, how to use Organized Power wiki, etc.
    • Subset of education pages can be worker input about tool use techniques, aspects of specific job site, etc.
  • "One Voice" vision page. Explain the "one voice" concept. Invite anyone to add to discussion of "one voice." The "One Voice" page must have restricted editing, but discussion of "one voice" is open for all to participate.
  • Private messaging or discussion between members.

Locally Active Organizations (Portland; Oregon; Washington)

PortlandWiki Page: Jobs with Justice
PDX JwJ's "alternative to the corporate media guide": An Alternative To The Corporate Media
Google Sites Page: JWJ Activism Update Portal from UnionResource.org
Labor Notes' UnionResource.org: UnionResource.org
- Community gathers for free soup, asks Rep. Walden: ‘Brother can you spare a job?’
- Wobbly Walk Free Speech Memorial
From web site (access date, September 3, 2011): "For information on starting a chapter in your region, please contact the National Field Team at field@pdamerica.org."
From web site: If you happen to be in the Portland area and would like to meet with any one of the volunteer staff folks at Onward Oregon, just ask. Visit our contact page to send us your request.
Contact Onward Oregon
Conducts "Mapping the Commons" workshops: Workshop: Mapping the Commons

Media

Thinking Together

A prominent wiki innovator once described the wiki as "the simplest online database that could possibly work."[1] In an age of social media, blogs, and other online media, wikis stand out. Unlike the others, wikis encourage participatory creativity, particularly in the realm of knowledge creation. Although rare, such collaborative and cooperative interactions can come close to "thinking together" as described by Jiddu Krishnamurti, the great spiritual and psychological philosopher.[2]

Of course, "thinking together" is a difficult, almost incomprehensible notion in a shallow, me-centric culture unaccustomed to even thinking in solitude, much less in cooperative collaboration with others. Ours is a culture that often relegates to the debate floor the gibberish that passes for "serious" thinking. We want debaters to do our thinking for us. The debate form has an ancient pedigree going back at least as far as ancient Greece, where drunken, aristocratic and male "lovers of boys" argued with each other in Symposia. In their modern form, debates often vomit up the most obtuse conclusions imaginable.

A few years ago, a typically modern debate-as-road-to-idiocy was trotted out into the public arena in the form of radio broadcast, on a show called Intelligence Squared U.S., in a program called "Global Warming Is Not a Crisis."[3] Before the debate commenced "30 percent of the audience agreed with the motion, while 57 percent were against and 13 percent undecided." In other words, the majority of the audience presumably understood that climate change is cause for deep concern.

Then the debaters began the business of destroying their audience's minds. How? While the bought-off academic, the dull meteorologist and the producer of fantasy films and trashy novels quipped in smooth, chirpy and reasonable-sounding non sequiturs, the pompous, I-am-smarter-than-thou "experts" managed only to confuse and piss-off an audience growing less and less sympathetic to their "trust-us-we-know-what-we're-talking-about-and-you're-just-too-dumb-to-understand" posturing. At the debate's conclusion, "46 percent agreed with the motion, roughly 42 percent were opposed and about 12 percent were undecided."

This kind of tragic outcome is understandable from aristocratic narcissists and drunken pedophiles, but is such stupidity acceptable from the body politic? In contrast, thinking together requires that we stuff the cork back into the bottle, unleash the squirming child from our lascivious grip, zip up our trousers and direct sober, serious attention onto the problem at hand. Perhaps if the audience had dismissed the intellectually, emotionally and morally challenged "experts" and investigated climate change for themselves, they may have reached a more intelligent understanding.

Wiki Research Links

References

  1. ↑ What Is Wiki
  2. ↑ Search Query: krishnamurti thinking together
  3. ↑ 'Global Warming Is Not a Crisis'
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