[Chapter-delegates] VIDEO: Alfredo Lopez – How to Run a Progressive & Collaborative ISP

[Joly MacFie]

When it comes to alternative ISPs, we are accustomed to thinking about the
technical hurdles. However constructing a sustainable financial and social
model is just as challenging. Alfredo gives valuable insight from his
experience doing both, using socialist principles.

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  joly posted: "At the OpenITP Techno-Activism Third Monday on May 20, 2013
at CUNY Graduate Center NYC, OpenCUNY presented Alfredo Lopez, founder of
May First/People Link (MF/PL), who shared his experience running a
progressive and collaborative ISP. Video is below. "

[image: ta3m]At the OpenITP Techno-Activism Third
Monday<http://hacktivism.eventbrite.com/>on May 20, 2013 at CUNY
Graduate Center NYC,
OpenCUNY <http://opencuny.org/> presented Alfredo Lopez, founder of May
First/People Link <https://mayfirst.org/> (MF/PL), who shared his
experience running a progressive and collaborative ISP. Video is below.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UsGUUUHjtI?rel=0&w=600&h=338>
*View on YouTube*: http://youtu.be/4UsGUUUHjtI
*Transcribe on AMARA*: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/vGSG6kkQMdCM/
*Twitter*: #TA3M <https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23TA3M>

May First/People Link is a membership-led and driven organization comprised
of about 450 organizations and another 400 individuals making for a total
of nearly 3,000 people in the organization. We are a politically
progressive organization, democratically run, and organized in both the
United States and Mexico

Alfred explains:

   - Why you should care about what type of ISP you have (Hint: They can
   see and share your online traffic)
   - Why MF/PL was setup as a unique alternative Internet provider.
   - How their infra-structure is different than most ISPs (support, server
   maintenance, and staffing) and why.
   - How democracy works in MF/PL and the success and challenges they have
   had.
   - The political challenges they face including lack of diversity in
   technology.
   - How other movements, such as the Climate Change movement, interact and
   enrich the members of the collective.

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