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

Fri Feb 1 17:26:08 IST 2008

Well have any of us observed when following incidents take place.--  ?

1. Sewerage lines are clogged, the sewerage board has no staff ,ask the contractor to clean up the clogged lines. The person who gets into sewerage line smells of cheap IMFL, but unhesitatingly takes bamboo sticks long ones, dips himself in the filth , cleans the clogged lines, comes out, there is hardly a bucket of water for him to clean himself of the filthy sewrage, but again drowns his smell of filth in country arrack, gets as less as a dollar for a days work, Rs,50/- for all the filth and cleaning of the clogged drain.

  2. garment factories have enough jobs for the female workers on contract basis, but working conditions are simply horrible, to add insult to injury, the sexual abuses is also have to be tolereated, for a meagre sum of Rs.50/- for ten hours  of hard work.

 3. Workers in unorganised sector and also in organised sector, where they have their union, but the top office bearers are not workers but foisted on them by comrade leaders, who live on the subscription of the comrade workers, have the silence to suffer when management uses all methods of greed to appease the comrade leaders.
 May be these are the migratory workers who migrate for better working conditions/ salaries.?
----- Original Message -----
From: Aman Sethi <aman.am at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, February 1, 2008 11:29 am
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Fw: REMINDER: Migrant/Media/Metropolis:	New LabourStruggles in the global city
To: reader-list at sarai.net

> "Hagen Kopp (migration activist)"
> I ask this question in all innocence.  What is a migration activist?
> best
> a.
> 
> On Feb 1, 2008 9:24 AM, lalitha kamath <elkamath at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > FYI
> >
> >
> > > 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), , 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.
> > >
> >
> > Cross-posted frm DEBATE list
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >       
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