P2P Fightsharing III
Precarity DVD-Magazine
PRECARITY Précarité/Precariedad/Precarietà /Precariteit/Prekarität
"MayDay! MayDay! We are the precarious. We are hireable on demand, available on call, exploitable at will and fireable at whim. We have become skilful jugglers of jobs and contortionists of flexibility. But beware! We are agitating with a common strategy to share our flexfights..."
The multilingual DVD “Precarity” is part of an ongoing experiment of collective self-defense. It is a compilation of 17 videos documenting on the rebellion of precarious flexworkers across the continents.
From the occupation of abandoned factories in Argentina, to the interruption of the French prime time news and the devotion to Saint Precarious at the Mayday Parade in Milan, the DVD is advertising a new brand of labor activism. It is a toolbox to investigate on new modes of collective action and an instrument for the radical organization of the consumerized younger generation.
The DVD “Precarity” contains 197 minutes of high resolution digital video and is the third episode of the DVD-zine “P2Pfightsharing”. It was born through the sharing of resources, material and skills throughout the networks of independent videomakers, media-activists, translators, authoring technicians and fightsharers. For “Precarity” all videos were translated in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Dutch and the subtitles can be reached through a language option on the DVD menu.
contact: dvdfightsharing@inventati.org
Table of Contents
A compilation of 17 videos on flexwork & precarity:
Trailer 9:01
Candida TV, Rome: Introduction and overview of the contents
Saint Precarious Goes Shopping 5:51
Milan
Chainworkers & Reload video crew: Supermarket procession with the Saint of Precarity
Gimme an occupation of the premises with that McStrike
? 4:05
Paris
Victor Muh: McDonald's workers go on strike and occupy the premises for 6 months
Precarias a la Deriva (extract) 19:13
Madrid
A drift in the circuits of women's precarious lives: precarious women on the path of war; interviewing each other
Nous Sommes Partout (extract) 30:56
France
Intermittents du Spectacle: actions against the precarity of the French temporary workers in the cultural sector
Friend or Foe (extract) 23:50
Korea
Labor News Production: Korea Telecom temporary workers are fired but determined to fight back
The Awful Truth (extract) 12:07
US
Michael Moore: Mexican Holiday Inn workers risk being deported from the U.S.A. for creating a union
Interview Chainworkers (extract from "The City Factory") 9:24
Milan
Marcelo Expósito: Interview with Alex Foti about the history of the italian Chainworkers CreW
Picchetta la catena 10:23
Milano
Chainworkers & Reload video crew: MayDay
? 2004 picket actions in front of Zara, Mondadori Bookstore & Disney
Saranno Precari 18:14
Milan
Teleimmagini? : Two precaires go to Milan to look for a job and bump into the MayDay
? protest parade...
Les Precàries es rebel.len (extract) 9:42
Barcelona
Nuria Vila & Amador Fernández : Interviews with the precarious rebels of the MayDay
? Parade in Barcelona
Mayday Barcelona 8:52
Barcelona
La Reproductora: Videoclip of the MayDay
? Parade in Barcelona
Contrato Basura 2:55
Barcelona
UbuTV & Tito de la Vega: Finally a contract at Starbucks... but something smells fishy?
Interview with Naomi Klein on Mayday 2004 (extract) 3:06
Barcelona
Lize De Clercq & Marcelo Expósito: Naomi on precarity of mediaworkers and the movement of occupied factories in Argentina
The Take (extract) 8:28
Argentina
Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis : Unemployed Argentinian workers occupy their abandoned factory
Buy Nothing Day 7:49
Kyoto
Adbusters Japan: Christmas action in front of a shopping mall
Yomango Tango 6:11
Barcelona
Yomango: To mark the december revolution in Argentina, Yomango steals champaign and dances tango in a supermarket and a bank
NOlympism (extract) 10:00
Amsterdam
Vrije Keyser & Clean Clothes Campaign: Impossible efforts of Bulgarian and Turkish textile workers to achieve the Olympic dream
Credits
Concept & Realisation
Francesca Bria, Tora Krogh & Lize De Clercq
dvdfightsharing@inventati.org
In collaboration with:
P2Pfightsharing
? Crew
www.fightsharing.net
Greenpepper Project, Amsterdam
wwww.greenpeppermagazine.org
Candida TV, Roma
www.candidatv.tv
Design:
Kernow Craig, Greenpepper Project, Amsterdam
Zoekat, Chainwokers.org CreW, Milano
Authoring & Graphics :
Gianluca Saporito, Marco Maltese & Niz, Altracosa, Roma
Audio mastering:
Stefano Cesca
Subtitles:
Lize De Clercq, Francesca Bria & Niz
Translations:
Lize De Clercq, Marcelo Expósito, Alan Toner, Francesca Bria, Niz, Marina Nebbiolo, Angelica De Rossi, Émilie Ferreira, Marais, Barbara Kenny, Cilia Willem, Constance Neuenscwander, Florian Huss, Magnus Henkel, Toni Cutrone, Julia & Indymedia translation team
Catering:
Ramus, Kathi & Barbi
Thanks to:
Precog, Alex, Frenesi, Cloutzcut, Iokry, Manolo, Josian, Gavin, Maori, Federico, Jacquie, Lidia, Peppe, Bunning, ngvision.org, CAM Colletivo Audio Movie, Conscious cinema, Jandarshan, Indyvideo Russia and all the video contributors, media-activists and fight sharers
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DVD Long Press Text
DVD-Magazine "Precarity"
PRECARITY
Précarité/Precariedad/Precarietà /Precariteit /Prekarität
"MayDay! MayDay! We are the precarious. We are hireable on demand, available on call, exploitable at will and fireable at whim. We have become skilful jugglers of jobs and contortionists of flexibility. But beware! We are agitating with a common strategy to share our flexfights."
The multilingual DVD "Precarity" is part of an ongoing experiment of collective self-defense. It is a compilation of 17 videos documenting on the rebellion of precarious flexworkers and gives crosscontinental coverage of conflicts that have been kept invisible for too long: the occupation of the premises by McStrikers
? in Paris, the struggle for a union of fired Korean Telecom temporary workers, the impossible efforts of Bulgarian and Turkish textile workers to make 'clean clothes' for the Olympic dream.
From the occupation of abandoned factories in Argentina, to the interruption of the French prime time news and the devotion to Saint
Precarious at the MayDay
? Parade in Milan, the DVD is advertising a new brand of labour activism, geared to young/female/foreign-born Précaires that have no prior political experience other than the toil of their bodies and minds in the giant outlets of the chain stores, malls, transportation hubs and call centres of the Brave New Postmodern World.
At the dark side of today's postindustrialist economy, millions of casualized young temps are stuck in 'non-standard' jobs, unable to make plans for the future, blackmailable because of the lack of union rights and excluded from basic social rights such as maternity, sick leave or the luxury of paid holidays. While still peripheral in the public mind, flexworkers are increasingly organising and becoming aware that their condition is far from accidental and temporary. Emerging conflicts of rebelling Précaires are bringing a disruptive, socio-political identity into being. A new form of social self-representation is agitating across the continents and flexworkers, chainworkers, brainworkers, sexworkers and foreign-born workers start to share their flexfights with a common strategy.
Précaires aren't peripheral. They are core producers of neoliberal wealth and creators of knowledge, style and culture enclosed and appropriated by monopoly power. The precarious producers of the DVD (videomakers, media-activists, translators, technicians and fightsharers) did all understand the persuasive power of pop culture and are moving the labour conflict from the level of negotiation into reticular and direct-action based labour organization built around communicative practices.
The DVD "Precarity" is an instrument for the radical organization of the consumerized younger generation left out of the political and social design. It is a toolbox to investigate on new modes of collective action: picketing of chainstores open on Sundays (Milan), reality hacking of the hot spots of consumerism (Chainworkers - Milan, YoMangoTango
? - Barcelona, Adbusters - Japan), culture jamming (Saint Precarious - Milan), docu-fictions (Precarity Academy - Milan, Trash Contract - Barcelona), subvertising media stunts (Intermittents - France, Michael Moore - USA) and inquiries of social self representation (Precarias A la Deriva - Madrid, Precarious in rebellion - Barcelona).
The DVD "Precarity" contains 197 minutes of high resolution digital video and is the third episode of the DVD-zine "P2Pfightsharing". "Precarity" is an experiment in autonomous production and self-employment. It was born through the sharing of resources, material and skills throughout the networks of independent videomakers, media-activists, translators, authoring technicians and fightsharers.
For "Precarity" all videos were translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, German and Dutch and the subtitles can be reached through a language option on the DVD menu.