ARGIA: Worker-Owned Basque centenary Media
2023-01-18 | ARGIA

ARGIA is a news media funded in 1919 in Pamplona and published in Basque language. At first religious – called Zeruko Argia, "light of heaven” –, forbidden during the fascist dictatorship in Spain from 1936 on, in the 1950s and 1960s it had managed to come back, avoid censorship and little by little become a journalistic project. In 1980 some workers bought the media from its religious owners, took out the "Zeruko” ("of heaven“) from the name forming... [+]

2019-07-11 | Paul Iano
Glovo and its Restaurants - Is It Good For Restaurants?

Almost all of the negative public attention that has recently been plaguing Glovo has been focused on the exploitation of their riders. This a welcome change of perspective but it also leaves out a significant part of the story: the restaurants that “collaborate”... [+]


2019-07-11 | Paul Iano
Glovo and its Riders - An Unbalanced Relationship

This is the first in a four-part series that will examine Glovo’s business model and its relationships with the world in which it operates. Based in extensive research into the company’s public image and dozens of interviews with Glovo “riders” in my... [+]


2019-07-01 | Paul Iano
What Happens When Guns Are Everywhere? Where Vox's ego will take us

If anyone is likely to have a gun at any time, society and daily life feel the consequences. Police shot first and ask questions later, and the possibility of being shot for absolutely no reason becomes a practical reality of going to work, going out with friends, and simply... [+]


2019-06-26 | Paul Iano
Hiding Profits in Fun: Amazon's Gamification of Work

In my Larrun article Glovalization, I attempted to call attention to the way that Glovo tries to pit its employees – oops, contract laborers – against each other in a zero-sum competion and a game-like application, and I predicted that this type of ingrained... [+]


2019-06-20 | Paul Iano
Glovo Kills: The True Price of a Pizza

Back when Glovo was a small company that no one had heard of in a few major Spanish cities, one of its first riders, Isaac Cuende, was hit by a car during a delivery. According to his account of the incident, the first question the company asked him was “are you carrying... [+]


2019-05-31 | Paul Iano
The double standard

Two major events have rocked the USA in recent weeks. First, the arrest in London of Julian Assange for allegedly helping Chelsea Manning in an effort to crack a government password . Second is the final, albeit redacted, Muller report, a long-awaited legal reckoning of... [+]


2019-05-30 | Paul Iano
Not my tragedy

The other day, standing in a bar looking at a photo of the Notre Dame cathedral in flames on the front page of the newspaper, I had to stop myself from laughing with joy. Unlike most, I see the cathedral as a monument to the many crimes of the Catholic Church: organized sexual... [+]


2019-05-03 | Paul Iano
Glovolization
The rise of Glovo and the decline of labor

Since its founding in 2015, Glovo has been expanding across the Iberian Peninsula and the world so quickly that we have not had the time to appropriately react and evaluate its impacts on our lives. The company uses a business model and marketing strategy that were first... [+]


2019-04-05 | ARGIA
Murder of environmentalist Gladys Del Estal: reward as punishment?

Environmentalist Gladys Del Estal was killed by a member of the Civil Guard at an anti-nuclear festival in 1979. The officer was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but shortly afterwards before serving his sentence he was awarded a medal. Del Estal has become a symbol of... [+]


Errigora: Navarrese asparagus to promote Basque

Errigora has started its annual campaign in favour of producing food and consuming it in the Basque Country under the slogan "Five years feeding what we love". Five years have gone by since they started the initiative. They use part of the profits which they make from... [+]