Casualisation / Workplace

from email, 15 April 2008: We invite everyone to the streets of Helsinki to celebrate with us on the eve of May Day. The city belongs to us who make living in it worthwhile! The Free Helsinki Carnival 30.4. at 18.00. Asa, Hosni, Jag, Julma-Henri, Liljan loisto, SuperJanne ja Tuomas Toivonen performing at Narinkkatori starting at 18.00. The parade sets of from Narinkkatori at 19.00. more

from imc-uk, 8 April 2008: A public meeting on the tenth anniversary of the death of Simon Jones, killed on his first day as a casual worker in a Shoreham dock. 8pm Thursday 24th April 2008, Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton more

from email, 7 April 2008: EuroMayday is a process by which actions and demands are put forward to fight the widespread precarization of youth and the discrimination of migrants in Europe and beyond: no borders, no workfare, no precarity! more

from imc-uk, 6 April 2008: Out on the streets for EuroMayday! Come with us to the Mayday Parade 2008: Move, dance, demonstrate – for the precarisation of power, the zest for solidarity, a city for everyone, and the organisation of the iStrike against the market in our heads. Let's work together! Our exchange is in the streets and at the kitchen table! The batteries are charged, but the iPod is fucked. Who cares? We'll see you there! In this sense: Don't just 'be berlin', be.A STRIKER IN.berlin! Be Mayday! more

from email, 5 April 2008: A EuroMayDay promo video has been made and is on YouTube. Check it out! Link it. Add it to your blog/MySpace, etc... This year, EuroMayDay parades are taking place in: Aachen - Berlin - Copenhagen - Hanau - Hamburg - Helsinki - Lisboa - Madrid - Malaga - Maribor - Milano - Napoli - Palermo - Tübingen - Terrassa - Wien with special guests: Tokyo and Osaka! more

from email, 5 March 2008: A workplace organising day and a benefit night, both from London Coalition Against Poverty. Details of both events follow, see you there! more

from email, 19 February 2008: On 03 and 04 of March 2008, a multi-vitamin festival of free exchange, called “Radost Obrata 3/4” (Joy of Revolt 3/4), will be held in Maribor. The festival will host numerous active individuals and groups from different parts of Europe, who are all, each in their own way, fighting bio-political and eco-social catastrophes, brought on by the neoliberal and nationalist ideologies. more

from email, 13 March 2008: This year for MayDay, two worlds clash together: the global movement vs strong-armed governments; grassroots networks and squatted social centers vs EU power; Utopian Society vs Capitalist Market; the radical europe of multitudes vs the conservative Europe of élites.

We are gonna spoil the party of the powerful, by raising hell in Aachen and holding our own party: the EuroMayDay Parade, the transeuropean demonstration of all precarious and migrants against workfare, discrimination and border controls held in more than twenty cities.

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from uppingtheanti, 31 January 2008: Jaya Klara Brekke talks to four UK based groups working to improve conditions for migrants and asks ‘how does one organise in the dark?’

Workers’ struggles to improve conditions traditionally voice demands for visibility, rights and citizenship. But when visibility brings with it the risk of detention and deportation other strategies may be necessary. Equally, when rights are dependent on the whims of employers, how desirable are they? more

from mostly water, 31 January 2008: What do Itchy the Bedbug, Creepy the Cockroach and Chewy the Rat have in common with the 2010 Olympics? They are the mascots of the first annual Poverty Olympics to be held on Feb. 3, 2008, just in time for the two-year countdown to the 2010 Winter Games. The event will take place at the Carnegie Theatre, 401 Main St. in Vancouver, from 1-4 pm. more

from email, 4 Nov 2007, LCAP: The first issue of 'Against Poverty' the news bulletin from the London Coalition Against Poverty is available for distribution +++ An introduction to direct action casework +++ Haringey Anti-Poverty Initiative talk about how the project came in being... more

El Libertario, Venezuela, 25 October 2007: "With a lot of rhetoric and propaganda the Chavez administration has advanced different examples of co-management which, they claim, demonstrate their desire to transform Venezuela’s relations of production. A compañero from Europe visited us recently and got to know two of the most celebrated cases: Alcasa and Invepal. Here is the report he prepared for El Libertario # 51 about the actual working conditions in the country’s most “important” co-managed businesses..." more

from China Labour Bulletin, 24 October 2007: At least 54 workers died in two separate incidents at unlicensed factories at the weekend following the conclusion of China's 17th Communist Party Congress in Beijing. The two incidents are a stark reminder that all the political celebration and ceremony of the last week should not distract attention away from the serious hazards Chinese workers face everyday. more

from email, 28 August: Repression against radicals in Osaka! Amid a climate of repeated evictions and targeted arrests, a well-known activist of the squatter movement in Japan was arrested before a protest against the World Championship of Athletics which is not only a protest of the event for evicting 20 squatters from one of the biggest parks in Osaka, but also a protest against the emperor's increased political importance in Japan. This pre-emptive arrest is an unusually repressive step and deserves attention. Please forward widely! more

from email, 14 August 2007: "long overdue translation - if you asked yourself again and again who they are, or better, why they act, the superfluous, here is the answer in form of their first declaration. take it as inspiration, the label is an invitation to active appropriation..." more

18 August [2007] is a national day of action against Starbucks. The IWW, No Sweat and many organisations and supporters are holding protests in cities right around the UK. We are asking the public not to drink at Starbucks today and to show support for the workers and farmers trying to improve their lives and make a living wage. more

from email, 14 July 2007: On the Friday 20th July (Columbia's 'National Day') at 1pm the Solidarity Federation will be holding a protest outside the Columbian embassy (3 Hans Crescent SW1. Tube: Knightsbridge. Between Sloane Street and Brompton Road. It's about a mile from Parliament.) as part of a international day of action to highlight the ongoing war waged by the Columbian state on trade unionists. more

Europe: Communities of Resistance, 7:30 pm 12th July @ Rampart: A night of debate and movies about the National Social Forum of the Banlieues with invited participants from London No Borders.

Between the 22, 23 and 24 june 2007 in St.Denis, Paris, there was a National Social Forum of the Banlieues. The event was attended by lots of different local grassroot movements. more

This text is based on a Red and Black Forum workshop given by the ZACF, held on 5th May at Khanya College in Johannesburg, about the relevance and impact of the 2010 Soccer World Cup for the poor and working poor in South Africa.

"Saturday, June 23 2007 from infoshop: South Africa’s success in winning the 2010 bid for the World Cup has been announced with great fanfare. The World Soccer Cup is the second biggest international sports events in the world, second only to the Olympics." more