[Reader-list] Fw: REMINDER: Migrant/Media/Metropolis: New Labour Struggles in the global city

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> Migrant / Media / Metropolis
> New labour struggles in the global city
> Saturday February 2nd, Amsterdam (Program Below)

>
> 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
>
> ==========
>
> 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.
>

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