At a workshop sponsored by May First/People Link about 40 activists got together for an exercise in what we called "collaborative democracy". Here's a description of the process written by Co-Director Jamie McClelland and myself.

The workshop centered around a collaborative and democratic process of writing a Declaration of Rights for Internet participants.

It's a tribute to the super-sexualism of a sexually confused society that one of the most popular explanations for the explosive growth of Myspace system dwells on sex.

The popular culture pundits are fond of describing the short-cut boy meets girl adventures as Myspace's raison d'etre. In fact, as I can attest from the experiences of the young men on my staff here, such adventures are rampant.

Were proof needed of the dangers and abuses implicit in the corporatization of the Internet, we've just been hit with a whopper.

Last month, email coming from Europe to US-based users stopped arriving. We noticed because People Link users began complaining that our email system was "blocking" email from various European countries. Well, we weren't and were puzzled by what was happening.

In life, efforts usually result in one of three outcomes: you fail, you succeed or, as is usually the case, you do some of both.

The history of the American labor movement defies that seemingly inescapable premise. Despite its position as arguably the leading progressive mass movement in American history and perhaps because of the power and expectations that position raises, our movement has all too frequently failed...abysmally.

The Internet is a classic example.