General Strike Assembly Sunday
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Matt Peterson
Mar 25, 2012, 6:48:45 AM3/25/12
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Sunday at 6 there's another Strike Everywhere-organized "open assembly on the general strike". Probably worth checking out. One of their action committees also organized a "Precarious & Service Workers Assembly" for the following Wednesday, March 28th. Details below:
2nd Open Assembly on the General Strike: http://strikeeverywhere.net/event/2nd-open-assembly-on-the-general-strike/
https://www.facebook.com/events/363734260314360/
25 March 2012 - 6PM
The Commons Brooklyn
388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
The second Open Assembly on the General Strike will be Sunday March 25th at 6PM at the Commons. We hope to continue in the coordination of our efforts to agitate and organize for the May Day General Strike.
At our first assembly we formed the following Action Committees: Media; Neighborhood; Precarious; Propaganda; Student; Tactical. We've formed an open listserv to facilitate communications about these and any others: https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/strikeeverywhere
Draft Agenda: 1. Reportbacks, 2. Action Committee Break-Out Sessions; 3. Build-up to May 1st, 4. May Day Plans, 5. Communication.
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.
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 to challenge capitalism in the heart of the beast.
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.
---
Precarious & Service Workers Assembly: http://strikeeverywhere.net/event/precarious-service-worker-assembly/
https://www.facebook.com/events/335272946520836/
28 March 2012 - 7:30PM
360 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Tired of being treated like a servant by your customers? Tired of management demanding more and more for less and less? Feeling alone or frustrated? Come to the first Precarious and Service Worker Assembly to network with others who share your interests!
As service workers, we are often both overworked and underpaid; with Management forcing workers to work ever faster in an ever shorter amount of time. Productivity and speed-of-service requirements increase while hours per week are slashed. It’s clear: The harder we work, the less we get paid, and the richer they get!
Many of us are already in tough situations as parents, immigrants, young people, and students. Racism is blatantly apparent at many of our workplaces, with Latino and immigrant workers confined to back-of-house positions, maintaining a racial hierarchy to keep us separated. For some, a job at a restaurant or a cafe is a 2nd or even 3rd job, a result of the declining wages for other careers. Even worse, we often find ourselves forced into student loan and credit card debt because of low pay. All the while, rent, food, and transportation costs climb through the roof.
Solidarity and support among local service workers can be empowering for all of us. Remember, they can’t run these places without us. Bosses thrive by pitting us against one another, but if not for us, Management wouldn’t make a dime. So let’s take what’s ours!
Bring some goods to share from your place of employment if you’d like, and feel free to bring a friend or two –as long as they’re not the boss! We’ll be discussing how we can make our collective situation much more interesting and how we can engage together in upcoming actions like the May Day General Strike.
Sunday at 6 there's another Strike Everywhere-organized "open assembly on the general strike". Probably worth checking out. One of their action committees also organized a "Precarious & Service Workers Assembly" for the following Wednesday, March 28th. Details below:
2nd Open Assembly on the General Strike: http://strikeeverywhere.net/event/2nd-open-assembly-on-the-general-strike/
https://www.facebook.com/events/363734260314360/
25 March 2012 - 6PM
The Commons Brooklyn
388 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217
The second Open Assembly on the General Strike will be Sunday March 25th at 6PM at the Commons. We hope to continue in the coordination of our efforts to agitate and organize for the May Day General Strike.
At our first assembly we formed the following Action Committees: Media; Neighborhood; Precarious; Propaganda; Student; Tactical. We've formed an open listserv to facilitate communications about these and any others: https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/strikeeverywhere
Draft Agenda: 1. Reportbacks, 2. Action Committee Break-Out Sessions; 3. Build-up to May 1st, 4. May Day Plans, 5. Communication.
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.
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 to challenge capitalism in the heart of the beast.
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.
---
Precarious & Service Workers Assembly: http://strikeeverywhere.net/event/precarious-service-worker-assembly/
https://www.facebook.com/events/335272946520836/
28 March 2012 - 7:30PM
360 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231
Tired of being treated like a servant by your customers? Tired of management demanding more and more for less and less? Feeling alone or frustrated? Come to the first Precarious and Service Worker Assembly to network with others who share your interests!
As service workers, we are often both overworked and underpaid; with Management forcing workers to work ever faster in an ever shorter amount of time. Productivity and speed-of-service requirements increase while hours per week are slashed. It’s clear: The harder we work, the less we get paid, and the richer they get!
Many of us are already in tough situations as parents, immigrants, young people, and students. Racism is blatantly apparent at many of our workplaces, with Latino and immigrant workers confined to back-of-house positions, maintaining a racial hierarchy to keep us separated. For some, a job at a restaurant or a cafe is a 2nd or even 3rd job, a result of the declining wages for other careers. Even worse, we often find ourselves forced into student loan and credit card debt because of low pay. All the while, rent, food, and transportation costs climb through the roof.
Solidarity and support among local service workers can be empowering for all of us. Remember, they can’t run these places without us. Bosses thrive by pitting us against one another, but if not for us, Management wouldn’t make a dime. So let’s take what’s ours!
Bring some goods to share from your place of employment if you’d like, and feel free to bring a friend or two –as long as they’re not the boss! We’ll be discussing how we can make our collective situation much more interesting and how we can engage together in upcoming actions like the May Day General Strike.
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