I have been discussing an idea with other lefties, social media afficianados and SL members that I find very exciting.
SLLU has ground to a halt because of it's unique structure, place and time. It was used effectively at that time to confront fascists using Second Life to organise and to raise money for causes across the world - most notably RAWA. And it was used to globalise a strike in IBM Italy, the result of which saw the Italian CEO of the company falling.
The idea that has been discussed between some members of the past SLLU collective is one that uses SL, and other social media to promote a small charter in communities across the world, based on social justice and equity.
The "Cells" that operate in doing so can be small communities that use social media to communicate, raise money for local activism and then use social media to communicate the actions that cell has carried out in order to encourage and educate other "cells."
Each cell is entirely "stand alone" - local conditions will be very different across the globe - but will have the commonality of the charter.
Each cell can raise money and contribute to the national Cell - a cell in which each small cell elects one representative to communicate and present national and international ideas for the international parent cell.
Others interested in the creation of local cells and discussing our charter (perhaps based on the SLLU charter - adapted for today's world), please contact me neilwscott@hotmail.com
Cheers
Neil Scott
Plot Tracer
Tuesday, 23 February 2016
CELL - a proposal
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Sunday, 1 December 2013
SLLU minutes of meeting 28 Nov 2013
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Sunday, 6 October 2013
Plot is officially retiring
Dear Comrades
After much thought, I have decided to retire from SL. My RL has become too busy to give SLLU its needed attention. I would like to, for the foreseeable future wind up my involvement- and that will mean a redistrubution of our land/money etc if others cannot take these responsibilities on.
I am proud of SLLU and what it achieved. And I really appreciate the real friendships I made in SL through this venture.
Anyone wanting to contact me about this, please email neilwscott@hotmail.com
Neil Scott/Plot Tracer
Founding member of SL Left Unity
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Monday, 29 April 2013
Reconvening SL Left Unity
I propose we reconvene SL Left Unity for two reasons.
1 to share any real life / online activity we have been organising or taking part in to fight back against corporative austerity.
2 to organise coordinated worldwide SL / RL activity to inspire, acknowledge or spark a fightback against corporate austerity.
Comrades- in the West, the owner/corporate class are winning the class war. We need to fight smart and crack their system wide open.
If you are interested in getting together inworld, email me at plottracer@googlemail.com
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Sunday, 23 December 2012
Elvin Revolution
From our RL sisters and brothers in the Scottish Socialist Party... A little Christmas story... HERE
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Podcast drama...
...from Plot Tracer and Acting Strange Theatre Company...
Follow their blog HERE
They've been enacting some of Plot's short stories and scripts... this is one.
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Monday, 11 June 2012
SLLU artist, Trill Zapatero, has created an excellent future vision of the world through a half-sim sized art installation. A post-apocalypse, post-everything vision that shows that after humans mess everything up, they can still build a beautiful world for themselves. Her message is an optimistic one. We can make a better world. It's why we keep up the struggle.
find it here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Beleza/38/219/1501
THE APOCALYPSE WILL NOT BE TELEVISED…it will be immersive and interactive.
This is my take on what could be within the next couple of hundred years. It is post oil, post economic collapse, post money, post everything almost. Global warming has come and gone and the environment is repairing herself.
You land in a blighted urban ruin inside of what used to be Dante’s Pizza. In the parking lot outside a ghost runs by leading the way, hopefully to help you escape from this dangerous and crumbling place. All around you are graffiti paintings giving clues as to what happened here. You notice the crumbling roman façade of the Stock Exchange building. You wonder why established institutions always used to style their architecture on that of fallen empires of the past. Even the Ritz hotel has totally lost it’s posh. You notice the ghost climbing the ladder so you follow her up and down the other side of the Imperial Theatre. You make your way through and abandoned, fallen-down house and out to the street. As you step on the road, it collapses beneath you and you land in a subway at Wall Street Stop. From here you make your way through the subway and after some collapsing walls and rising water you find yourself exiting through a sewer pipe that lets you out at the sea. You arrive at the End of the World, which is a really just a park at the edge of the sea, and there’s more ahead. At the end of the world, salvation is a salvage company that redeems old junk from the city. Redemption for you comes in the form of a solar barge, The Redemptress, that takes you to and abandoned oilrig that has been converted into a community garden and living space.
My take on the apocalypse is not meant to be fear mongery but bravery mongery. What’s there to be brave about if you’re not first of all afraid of something?
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore (famous Indian poet)
About Me:
I’m interested in painting, illustration (especially making political cartoons for Huffingpost online), the Occupy movement, culture jamming, peace for Afghanistan, the environment, doing my part to do something about the state of the world today.
I like building in virtual worlds and reading and riding my bike and hanging with my dog and boyfriend in the other world. My favorite band is the Tragically Hip from Canada. At the moment I’m rereading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
(spoilers)
Slideshow by PJ Trenton: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pj_trenton/sets/72157630025965139/show/
http://quanlavender.blogspot.ca/2012/06/apocalypse-not-televised-but-in-second.html
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