A Global Tour of Online Protests | UsefulArts.us - 0 views
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Where have all the protests gone? Many of the most interesting and successful are making creative use of new online environments
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Rappresentanza Sindacale Unitaria IBM Vimercate (RSU), the official trade union representing IBM’s 9,000 workers in Italy, undertook a novel form of industrial action – a strike on Second Life. IBM has a large Second Life presence, in which 2,000 characters in protest shirts, carrying signs, picketed. The result was a change in a salary increase policy for employees in Italy and an award from the French Senate.