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You are invited to:
Migrant / Media / Metropolis
New labour struggles in the global city
Saturday February 2nd, Amsterdam
Migration and media-activists gather with theorists
and labour
organizers to discuss and share best practices in the
fight against
precarity and insecure labour conditions. Sharing
inspiring examples of
social justice unionism and creative campaigning like
?Justice for
Janitors? in the U.S. and ?Cleaners For a Better
Future? in
the
Netherlands. The aim is to challenge traditional
labour practices,
syndicate and inspire a sharper network of social
activists, academics,
media makers and artists to join contemporary urban
labour struggles
and
confederate into a globalization from below.
With: Enrica Rigo (migration researcher); Marcel van
der Linden (Labour
Historian) Zoe Romano (Chainworkers); Nico Sguiglia
(Oficinas
Sociales),
Massimo De Angelis (the Commoner), Dagmar Diesner (No
Borders London),
Seoren Kohler (Multitude), Hagen Kopp (migration
activist), preceded by
the book launch of Urban Politics Now! (NAi, 2007).
Date | Saturday February 2
Time | 13.00 - 18.30 hrs.
Language | English
Live webcast |
www.debalie.nl/live
Organised in collaboration with Flexmens / Coalition
For a Better
Future /
FNV Bongenoten
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Programme:
13:00-13:45 preprogramme ? book launch: Urban Politics
Now! Reimagining
democracy in the Neoliberal City. With participation
from BAVO, Henk
van
Houtum en Merijn Oudenampsen.
14:00 ? 15:30 Start main programme
panel #1 ?Towards a Globalisation from Below?
Facilator: Valery Alzaga (Justice for Janitors ?
Global Campaign)
-Massimo De Angelis, Beginning of History: global
capital, global value
struggle
-Enrica Rigo, Contested Migrant Citizenship in Europe
-Marcel van der Linden, Organizing and New Labour
Internationalism
-Hagen Kopp, Forging a Transnational chain of
migration-activism
Globalization has brought us an increasingly
integrated global circuit
of large corporations and financial conglomerates,
which have
concentrated power in fewer and fewer hands. On the
other side, we can
find an emerging globalization from below, that of
migrants, labour
struggles and social activists, claiming space and
redistributing
wealth.
15:30-16:00 Break with possibility of sandwich and
conspiring.
16:00- 17:15
panel #2 ?Syndicalism 2.0?
-Dutch Cleaners Campaign (Juliano Vieira & Herrie
Hoogenboom,organizer
FNV
Bongenoten)
-Migrant labour struggles in South Spain (Nico
Scuglia, Indymedia
Estrecho)
-Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers Union (Fe Jusay -
CFMW & Katrien
Depuydt - Abvakabo)
-German Retail Strike (Franziska Bruder, Verdi)
Examples of campaigns that have brought inspiration
and innovation back
to labour, revolving around organizing and social
movement unionism,
building community, going back to the base and out of
the office.
17:15-18:30
panel #3 ?No Longer Invisible: Labour & Media?
-Zoe Romano (Chainworkers Milano), interventions of a
bio syndicate
-Merijn Oudenampsen (Betere Toekomst), Mediawork in
Dutch Cleaners
Campaign
-Soeren Kohler (Multitude e.V) : Media-activism and
worker
participation
at German Retail strike
-Dagmar Diesner (NoBorders London), Screening
Underground Londoners
Media-activism has provided a vital ingredient to new
campaigns, to
visibilize what normally remains hidden from view.
Media-activists
showcase their work, and discuss issues of
participation and
representation.
--
'Some differences are playful; some are poles of world
historical
systems of domination. Epistemology is about knowing
the difference'.
Donna Haraway
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