| | 1 | = International Tech Support = |
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| | 3 | Proposal for funding of our international tech work. |
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| | 5 | References: [wiki:global-digital-mobilization] |
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| | 7 | Relevant text from POC tech training program: |
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| | 9 | The Internet is humanity's way of facilitating the communication necessary to build movements to save the human race and the world. |
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| | 11 | The converging crises in the major capitalist economies, the precarious state of the world environment, the political crisis in government in so many of the world's countries and the usurpation of government authority by international banks and committees have brought humanity to a point of urgency and increasing certainty that something must be done to save itself. |
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| | 13 | In recent months, we have seen this expression surge through various regions in the world with demonstrations and an unmistakable reflection of that feeling of crisis in events in the United States. All those developments also demonstrate something else: the importance of the Internet and communications technology. |
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| | 15 | When all else fails, human beings come together to communicate and figure out how to survive; that is our legacy as a species. And humanity has been forging ahead in doing that with world-wide efforts like the World Social Forum and the Climate Control movement and, of course, the Internet. |
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| | 17 | The Internet, a community of more than 1.9 billion people world-wide, is among humanity's principle responses; it's humanity's way of facilitating the communication necessary to make all this collaboration possible. |
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| | 19 | At the same time, the global crisis against which we're mobilizing depletes the resources required to build gatherings of large numbers of people. They are too large to put on, too expensive to get to and not capable of broadening the number of poor people attending. If we are going to ensure the progressive movements' continued collaboration world-wide and the broadening of those movements, we are going to have to use the Internet and that is the reason why humanity invented it. |
