Tweet for Local Government on Thursday

Council workers and councillors are being urged to tweet this Thursday to raise the profile of the full range of local services they provide for the public. The #OurDay Tweetathon has been launched by the Local Government Association in England and Wales.

97% owned - a must see new film

A brilliant new Positive Money documentary explains how our money system works. Watched 65,000 times in the first 14 days, this is the first UK-based documentary to explain the fundamental flaws in our monetary system. You can watch the film online here or attend a screening, so far planned in Sheffield, London and Richmond (North Yorkshire)

Who will be watching you or listening in?

Government plans to allow security service officials at GCHQ to scrutinize who is talking to whom and exactly when the conversations are taking place on email or social media should worry all labour movement activists: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
commentisfree/2012/apr/02/surveillance-state-coalition-email-social-media
The usual excuses of "terrorism" and "national security" have been trotted out but as the Guardian former security correspondent Richard Norton Taylor noted in the paper as far back as 2002, the government definition of terrorism and national security are and traditionally have been extremely broad, and they have enormous discretion on how they are used.