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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 20, 2012 at 5:27

The face of the enemy (the face of the 1%) is below.

Comment by Joe Balkis on April 17, 2012 at 5:43

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It's going viral: In just over 12 hours, more than 70,000 people have signed on to our campaign to get Facebook to back down from its support for CISPA.

It's the new bill that would obliterate online privacy, give the military crazy new abilities to spy on the Internet, and potentially let ISPs block sites and cut off users accused of piracy

Even if you already have, please use this  link to help us push our campaign viral on Facebook:

If you're already on Facebook, click here to share with your friends.

Then click here to sign on to our open letter urging Facebook to wi...

Or you could just forward the email below on to your friends and/or link your website back to our petition page.

Thank so much!

Demand Progress

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Comment by Joe Balkis on April 1, 2012 at 20:28

Thank you for spreading the word as well as posting. Keep up the good work. I'm going to start documenting facebook advertisers, researching them, getting their contact info without clicking on them while on facebook. I'm planning to get their emails & phone #. Then contacting them & telling them not to advertise on facebook. I will be posting the info on this group as well as messaging it.  If you could do as well that would be great. Thank you.

Comment by Alexandria Davis on March 4, 2012 at 16:44

Outstanding union brother! Yes I have been trying to spread the word on facebook as much as I can. I think I brought about twenty members so far.

Comment by Joe Balkis on March 4, 2012 at 14:21

First of all I want to thank everyone for their recruitment efforts.  We have seen a recent influx of members to unionbook.  We should be over 5,000 soon.  Secondly I would also like to recruit for this group, so feel free to invite your unionbook friends.

I have been sending out my usually emails & I have put links to unionbook in them.  I have also put links to unionbook on my usual facebook posts.  I have been promoting unionbook word of mouth when talking to my members, as well as when I am out leafletting.

In addition to recruitment we can also have a boycott.  My understanding is that facebook makes money from advertisement.  So we can kill two birds with one stone.  We can target anti-union companies that advertise on facebook.  I already have general boycott groups in place.  We can possible create a Boycott facebook advertisers page/group.  Let me know what you think.  Also let me know if your on facebook.  If you are friend me on their,  I'm John Brown.  The picture is John Brown kissing a baby, going to his execution.

Comment by Joe Balkis on February 26, 2012 at 4:46

Your welcome Louisa, keep up the good work.

Screenburst i was thinking the same thing until they said i violated some policy but refused to tell me which.  And at times when they said I made friend requests of people that I did not have many friends in common with.  I think its a mix of automated system & partisan politics

Comment by Ira M Wechsler on February 23, 2012 at 0:19

  So it seems that while they claim that Facebook launched the so-called "Revolution" in Egypt they don't want any seriously orgnized attempt to launch one that REALLY challenges the monopoly of power and wealth of finance capital. It my well be that they will spawn Facebook into some fascist patriotic mass in the future, that  is after they commercialize and spam every one to death first.

Comment by Brian Ross Ashley on February 22, 2012 at 19:22

You don't even have to be far left to have it happen - Derek Blackadder, a perfectly ordinary organiser with a Canadian public service union and correspondent for LabourStart, has been bounced a couple of times.I've not been bothered myself so far but it could happen.

Comment by screenburstart on February 22, 2012 at 18:53

it could be because of complaints from facebook members, if you do too much they treat you like spam, just a possibility.  but i have heard that many pro union left leaning groups have had similar situations to yours

 

Comment by Joe Balkis on February 22, 2012 at 17:45

They have kicked off anti-capitalist leftist pro union/worker groups and members.  They say for some policy violation (they enforce arbitrarily) but they won't say which.  Before they kicked me off, they repeatedly blocked me from making friend requests & posting. This is after all the time & effort building up to over 1,000 friends & 300 groups.

They are up to the same tricks & then some.  They recently blocked me from making friend requst for 14 days.  So I sent messages to people to request me & then they blocked messaging too.  They archived groups & then migrated the members. 1984 orwellian speak for deleting members if they don't re sign up.  They deleted me out of groups before I had the time to re sign up.  It is very user unfriendly  The way they have it set up & the changes they make, make it difficult to organize union acivty.

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