[ELECTRON] International Womens Day Film Screening at the Electron Club

[kisho khwa]

Hi everyone,

I avoid email discussions like the plague for the usual sensible reasons but this one i feel I have to respond, albeit briefly.

Gordon - Now who do you think makes the laptop, makes the tv components, the cameras, the chips, the circuits, the soldering irons, the dvd players, the toasters, lcd monitors and so on and so on??
**measley paid workers in developing countries with no unions, no support and no choice but to do so to put food on the table. women in Juarez, for example, are literally strapped to the assembley line table, are forced to take pregnancy tests & birth control, develop chronic bladder infections because of bas on toilet use and are fired if they become pregnant. repeat around the world.....

Who do you think disposes of/ recycles the waste produced by such items?
**The very same people, but usually children because they are even cheaper than working adults and have swift nimble fingers and can supply more labour before the chemicals start to affect their bodies & minds.

Where do the materials needed come from?
**mining operations in china and suchlike, with hellish conditions & ramifications both for the workers and the environment. 

Technology is in its very existence, production, disposal and use of, political. I have no idea how you cannot see this. If our so called advancements were put to better use then this world could be a better place. This does not happen by sitting in am armchair writing letters.

I could waste more time & effort quoting facts and figures but you should do your own research. Apply open source as a theory to the way in which we move and inhabit the world and things might start to click?

with some hope,

N khwaja





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From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
To: Discussion list for the Electron Club <members at electronclub.org>
Sent: Mon, 1 March, 2010 20:02:05
Subject: Re: [ELECTRON] International Womens Day Film Screening at the Electron Club

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 18:58 +0000, Marion Hersh wrote:

> When there was an Earth First group in Glasgow I was involved in it.  My
> experience was of a group of gentle people rather than vandals and
> bullies and opposition to the inappropriate use of technology, not
> technology per se.

I'm still struggling to see any valid connection between Electron Club
and *any* kind of political activism.

Gordon MM0YEQ


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