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

[Aman Sethi]

"Hagen Kopp (migration activist)"
I ask this question in all innocence.  What is a migration activist?
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On Feb 1, 2008 9:24 AM, lalitha kamath <elkamath at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Migrant / Media / Metropolis
> > New labour struggles in the global city
> > Saturday February 2nd, Amsterdam (Program Below)
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> > 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
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> > 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,
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> > 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.
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> > 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),
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> > Seoren Kohler (Multitude), , preceded by
> > the book launch of Urban Politics Now! (NAi, 2007).
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> > Date | Saturday February 2
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> > Time | 13.00 - 18.30 hrs.
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> > Language | English
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> > Live webcast | www.debalie.nl/live
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> > Organised in collaboration with Flexmens / Coalition For a Better Future /
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> > FNV Bongenoten
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> > Programme:
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> > 13:00-13:45 preprogramme – book launch: Urban Politics Now! Reimagining
> > democracy in the Neoliberal City. With participation from BAVO, Henk van
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> > Houtum en Merijn Oudenampsen.
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> > 14:00 – 15:30 Start main programme
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> > panel #1 "Towards a Globalisation from Below"
> > Facilator: Valery Alzaga (Justice for Janitors – Global Campaign)
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> > -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
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> > -Hagen Kopp, Forging a Transnational chain of migration-activism
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> > Globalization has brought us an increasingly integrated global circuit
> > of large corporations and financial conglomerates, which have
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> > 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.
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> > 15:30-16:00 Break with possibility of sandwich and conspiring.
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> > 16:00- 17:15
> > panel #2 "Syndicalism 2.0"
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> > -Dutch Cleaners Campaign (Juliano Vieira & Herrie Hoogenboom,organizer FNV
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> > 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)
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> > 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.
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> > 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
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> > Campaign
> > -Soeren Kohler (Multitude e.V) : Media-activism and worker participation
> > at German Retail strike
> > -Dagmar Diesner (NoBorders London), Screening Underground Londoners
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> > Media-activism has provided a vital ingredient to new campaigns, to
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> > visibilize what normally remains hidden from view. Media-activists
> > showcase their work, and discuss issues of participation and
> > representation.
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> Cross-posted frm DEBATE list
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