An Open Assembly on the General Strike - Sunday March 4th
0 views
Skip to first unread message
Matt Peterson
Feb 28, 2012, 3:17:28 PM2/28/12
to Matt Peterson
Our comrades from Strike Everywhere have organized this assembly for Sunday at 6PM at the Brooklyn Commons. Invite below. Please forward widely.
Matt
An Open Assembly on the General Strike: https://www.facebook.com/events/192954704143767/
4 March 2012 - 6PM
The Commons Brooklyn
388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
New York City anti-authoritarians have assembled to participate in organizing the May Day General Strike, to provide whatever infrastructure we can, and to present our analyses, critiques, ideas, and tactics. We invite all those interested in organizing along these lines to join us for a discussion and to create action committees to challenge capitalism in the heart of the beast.
Please note: we will not discuss the merits of a general strike, whether one should be called for May 1st, and whether we should use the language of the "general strike" in our outreach and propaganda. We are proceeding from the standpoint that the General Strike has already been called, and it is now up to us to organize and agitate to make it happen.
Draft Agenda: 1. Reportbacks, 2. Sectors to organize, 3. Build-up to May 1st, 4. Convergence Point, 5. Action Committees, 6. Next Assembly
We hope to leave time at the end of this assembly for action committees to have break-out sessions to begin coordinating. Suggested Committees: Legal, Medical, Propaganda. Agitation by sector: Unemployed, Precarious, Neighborhoods, Education, Public Sector, Workplace
http://strikeeverywhere.net/
http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/
THE CALL
At work, under constant surveillance, we struggle for a daily wage, simply to increase the profit margins for our bosses. Previously, the ruling classes had slaves and indentured servants, forcing labor relations through brute force. Today they still have us as slaves and servants through wage labor contracts and fraudulent notions of debt. As we have all seen, debt can be forgiven, in the trillions, to those who own society; but for the rest of us debt is inexcusable, and our lives, our time, our futures, are always negotiable.
May Day is known the world over as International Workers Day, a day commemorating violence by police and strike-breakers against workers engaged in a general strike to bring about the 8 hour work day. This struggle was not the end goal for those who put their lives on the line in Chicago in 1886, but it was part of a broader aim of destroying the very means of our oppression— capital and the state. This war continues. So too the general strikes of 2012 will establish a decisive drive towards the materialization of a social force to be feared by bosses and politicians the world over.
It’s time to multiply – to become a global social force capable of attacking our enemies when and where it hurts and sustaining and defending each other in this transformative global moment; a force able to fight and win, a force able to collectively end these indignities and give us the necessary leverage to overcome mediation and to determine our own futures.
This is a call for a 5 day weekend beginning Friday April 27th, culminating in global General Strike on Tuesday May 1st. We propose using this mobilization as a tool for realizing more global solidarity and mutual aid while creating and strengthening the necessary relations and conditions for revolutionary potential - here and now. We will strike, assemble, block and shut down the city!
From the struggle that brought the 8 hour work day, to the people who want it all – EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE!
ABOUT STRIKE EVERYWHERE
We are New York City Anarchists, Anti-Capitalists and Autonomists; we are joining the call for global revolt. In the coming weeks local groups and collectives, along with regional and global allies will help develop and facilitate an open framework to organize, coordinate and propagate our activities. This will include local and regional organizing bodies, websites and information hubs, resource and skill sharing, and various actions, events, and outreach efforts in the lead up to the Global General Strike of May Day 2012.
Matt
An Open Assembly on the General Strike: https://www.facebook.com/events/192954704143767/
4 March 2012 - 6PM
The Commons Brooklyn
388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
New York City anti-authoritarians have assembled to participate in organizing the May Day General Strike, to provide whatever infrastructure we can, and to present our analyses, critiques, ideas, and tactics. We invite all those interested in organizing along these lines to join us for a discussion and to create action committees to challenge capitalism in the heart of the beast.
Please note: we will not discuss the merits of a general strike, whether one should be called for May 1st, and whether we should use the language of the "general strike" in our outreach and propaganda. We are proceeding from the standpoint that the General Strike has already been called, and it is now up to us to organize and agitate to make it happen.
Draft Agenda: 1. Reportbacks, 2. Sectors to organize, 3. Build-up to May 1st, 4. Convergence Point, 5. Action Committees, 6. Next Assembly
We hope to leave time at the end of this assembly for action committees to have break-out sessions to begin coordinating. Suggested Committees: Legal, Medical, Propaganda. Agitation by sector: Unemployed, Precarious, Neighborhoods, Education, Public Sector, Workplace
http://strikeeverywhere.net/
http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/
THE CALL
At work, under constant surveillance, we struggle for a daily wage, simply to increase the profit margins for our bosses. Previously, the ruling classes had slaves and indentured servants, forcing labor relations through brute force. Today they still have us as slaves and servants through wage labor contracts and fraudulent notions of debt. As we have all seen, debt can be forgiven, in the trillions, to those who own society; but for the rest of us debt is inexcusable, and our lives, our time, our futures, are always negotiable.
May Day is known the world over as International Workers Day, a day commemorating violence by police and strike-breakers against workers engaged in a general strike to bring about the 8 hour work day. This struggle was not the end goal for those who put their lives on the line in Chicago in 1886, but it was part of a broader aim of destroying the very means of our oppression— capital and the state. This war continues. So too the general strikes of 2012 will establish a decisive drive towards the materialization of a social force to be feared by bosses and politicians the world over.
It’s time to multiply – to become a global social force capable of attacking our enemies when and where it hurts and sustaining and defending each other in this transformative global moment; a force able to fight and win, a force able to collectively end these indignities and give us the necessary leverage to overcome mediation and to determine our own futures.
This is a call for a 5 day weekend beginning Friday April 27th, culminating in global General Strike on Tuesday May 1st. We propose using this mobilization as a tool for realizing more global solidarity and mutual aid while creating and strengthening the necessary relations and conditions for revolutionary potential - here and now. We will strike, assemble, block and shut down the city!
From the struggle that brought the 8 hour work day, to the people who want it all – EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE!
ABOUT STRIKE EVERYWHERE
We are New York City Anarchists, Anti-Capitalists and Autonomists; we are joining the call for global revolt. In the coming weeks local groups and collectives, along with regional and global allies will help develop and facilitate an open framework to organize, coordinate and propagate our activities. This will include local and regional organizing bodies, websites and information hubs, resource and skill sharing, and various actions, events, and outreach efforts in the lead up to the Global General Strike of May Day 2012.
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages