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Category: Labor

Societies with secrets, security culture and online social media

May 12, 2012

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John Bell

in Books, Esoterica, Freemasonry, Labor, Ordo Templi Orientis, Politics, Portland, Technology

There’s a post about a new Social Media Code of Conduct for Massachusetts Freemasons [PDF] (HT @Masonictraveller) over at Freemason Information, part of The Beehive series by Fred Milliken. This document mentioned is particularly interesting to me because it touches on some issues I think are important; and the reactions to the document are also…
the militant labor movement and personal history

Mar 22, 2001

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John Bell

in General, Labor

I’ve started to read a book about the IWW because I got interested in the idea that WA was once a center of militant labor, through hearing some spoken word by Utah Philips. Anyhow, we have a bit of history in mining probably between then 1880’s and 1920’s, which is around the time that all…