Today's Topics:
1. cgt aragon: CONCENTRATION CALLED BY CGT-SARGA
ON 08/16/2018
IN TORLA (HUESCA) (ca) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. Britain, brighton solfed: Youngs dispute: landlord initiates
new eviction via the law firm Dean Wilson (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Czech, A3: Siren test [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Holand, vrije bond: 6th Annual Week of solidarity with
anarchist prisoners (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. Bangladesh Anarcho Syndicalist Federation Garment workers
are being organized for the movement by akmshih [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. Bangladesh Anarcho Syndicalist Federation: Why this clothing
company is making its factory wages public by akmshihab
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
On the occasion of the celebration of the Centenary of the creation of the National Park
of Ordesa and Monte Perdido, on 16 August Torla and Ordesa will meet personalities from
different fields, including representatives of the company SARGA and the Government of
Aragon, responsible for the decision making that affects the precariousness of working
conditions in SARGA and, therefore, the recipients of our message. ---- We take advantage
of the opportunity that this event gives us, the centenary of the Park, to make visible
once again our struggle against the high precariousness of the working conditions suffered
by SARGA workers. A day in which attention, not only at the level of the Aragonese
territory, but at the state level, will be placed especially in this place.
The CONCENTRATION will take place on August 16, 2018 at 10:00 in the morning , at the
gates of the Interpretation Center of Torla , the National Park of Ordesa and Monte Perdido.
We encourage you to participate in this concentration in support of these demands that
ultimately affect us all.
You can read the full communication of the compañerxs of CGT-SARGA in the attached document.
Arainfo Photo
ATTACHMENTS
Statement CGT - SARGA Concentration 08/16/2018 ( PDF - 607 KB )
http://www.cgtaragon.org/IMG/pdf/CGTCOMUNICADO_ordesa.pdf
http://www.cgtaragon.org/concentracion-convocada-por-cgt
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Message: 2
The landlord in our ongoing dispute in support of a tenant, Patrick, whose house was
allowed to fall into a serious state of disrepair over a number of years, has served a
fresh section 21 eviction notice, after the first one failed in court in early June. In
the intervening period, Patrick and Brighton Solidarity Federation attempted again to open
a dialogue with the landlord, providing considerable evidence in support of Patrick's
claim for compensation for poor living conditions and work he has undertaken, as well as
the possibility of a grant to help fund the much-needed repair works. However, the
landlord has been unwilling to enter into negotiations toward a solution, and has instead
initiated a second eviction process.
Whilst the landlord is unwilling to pay compensation to Patrick for the stress of living
with collapsing ceilings, with a bedroom that was uninhabitable for nine months, for
ongoing issues with rising damp and dry rot, mould in the kitchen, damp in the bathroom
and kitchen ceilings, damp and rotten window frames in the kitchen, and damp in the
outside wall (as was found by an inspection by the council's Environmental Health
department), as well as having to deal with a letting agent - David Pay - who assaulted a
Brighton SolFed member and whose son forced his way into Patrick's house and assaulted
him, he is apparently happy to pay out money on a failed attempt at eviction, as well as
on a law firm, Dean Wilson, who are based in Seven Dials, to try and get it right the
second time. Youngs also continue to administer the property on behalf of the landlord, in
spite of everything outlined above.
Patrick has lived in the flat for over a decade, and needs to be in the area to provide
daily care for his elderly mother, so both Patrick and ourselves are determined to fight
the eviction. Landlords and lettings agencies might have money and the law, but we have
the solidarity of tenants supporting one another, which we know is more powerful. However,
this new situation means that Patrick might incur some costs, either in court or from
moving house, over the next couple of months. For this reason, we've started a GoFundMe
campaign to raise some money for this. If able, you can make a donation at:
https://www.gofundme.com/patricks-housing-fund
An injury to one is an injury to all!
http://www.brightonsolfed.org.uk/brighton/youngs-dispute-landlord-initiates-new-eviction-via-the-law-firm-dean-wilson
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Message: 3
We live at a time when one human life is not worth the attention, and for others, sirens
are being poured out. ---- In August, the standard term of the sirens test was changed -
they were blowing in the right noon, but not just the first Wednesday in the month, but
the second. Actually, no, on August 8, the three dead were the state honor. No, it was not
an expression of participation in the deaths of two drowning children whom the Czechs did
not help because they were not quite white and did not even belong to a worker who killed
a passing car while working on the highway. There were three other dead who, in terms of
labor law, had essentially succumbed to an occupational accident. Soldiers who were killed
before they could kill someone else.
Vox populi, as a courteous herd, will second the state propaganda, which in principle must
celebrate and heroize those who powerfully protect the power and system status quo. The
state is not about human life but a symbol of inviolable institutionalized violence. The
people are moved, they organize money collections for the families of the dead, they hate
the enemy who caused the death of the heroes. Regretting one's death is absolutely right,
every human life is irreplaceable. Even the life of the worker and the life of a
seven-year-old child. How then does a loved populus cry over a dead mercenary and, at the
same time, with stupid cynicism, commented on the death of a child, and ignores the death
of an ordinary manual worker? To the detriment of others and otherness, it dispels the
reality of one's own personal, social and social failure, nothingness and insignificance,
a complex of a member of a "nation," who must stick to a hegemon, to be taken into account
at all. He sees his next neighbor in the plate and hence can still have some ego. The
ideal citizen - from the point of view of those who define the rules of what is allowed
and what is not.
The police are searching for alleged extremists who are putting up leaflets offending the
heroism of our fallen soldiers. The police are fined by the subversives who put on their
clothes with a crossed-out hook. All these "extremists", according to the police, are
promoting terrorism and movements aimed at suppressing human rights and freedoms, and it
does not matter when they actually promote the opposite. There's little matter in the
police's office. Just as the facts matter, it is a matter of all sorts of brownish
populists, who seem to be more popular, the more the truth is, the more they misrepresent
or lie freely.
Is it really incomprehensible how state propaganda works? They are all extremists. Except
for the decent people (it is no wonder that a bunch of Brno neo-Nazi criminals under the
klero-fascist cheering of Cardinal Dominique Duke), xenophobia, racists and monsters, that
measure life and death by property, status, appearance. How long will these "exemplary
citizens" be different from the Ukrainian natives who are bloody pogroms on the Roma? From
the Slovak Nazis who practice knife combat and the local Indians or Philippines? From the
German Nazis from the National Socialist Underground, murdering Turks and Greeks?
We all think that every human life is an inalienable right. Repeat this everywhere and
everybody. It's the smallest thing we can do. At least for now. Human life is a universal
value, and it does not matter what color the wearer has, or what is written in official
documents as nationality or nationality.
There was a siren test. And it has become the test of local humanity. It was very strange.
There is nothing to do with the fact that, in comparison with neighboring countries such
as Poland and Hungary, we seem to be still moving to such a small Czech "light fascism".
And he does not really care if he is going to give a note to a busy journalist, Pitomio
treating rasism for his childhood trauma when he was all mocked and banished as a
messenger, or another fascist clan of the Klaus family, also treating his mistresses by
spreading delusions and intolerance.
Our sirens should sound all the time. In honor of all those nameless who are dying in
building capitalism, but also those who survive in their mouths, even if they work a lot
more than they would be. In honor of the victims of racist violence and indifference, but
also those who encounter daily hatred of ignorance, ignorance, and the intimacy of their
surroundings. If we do not hear our voice enough, we can overcome this phase of "light
fascism" and get into shit.
A3 ( srp 2018) HERE to download. http://www.afed.cz/A3/A3-2018-08.pdf
Download, print, spread!
The A3 wall paper is published annually by the Anarchist Federation. They are intended
primarily for spreading through street lifts or posting in workplaces and schools.
https://www.afed.cz/text/6866/a3-zkouska-siren
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Message: 4
Since last year, a lot has changed in our countries, but the general tendency is going in
the worse direction with more repressions applied against anarchists not only in Europe
but worldwide. With this in mind, we are calling for sixth annual week of solidarity! ----
Last year lots of people sent us their reports from different parts of the world and we
hope that this year the tradition will grow even bigger. We need to support our comrades!
Use this week to spread the information about anarchists behind bars. Don't have prisoners
in your country? No worry, support prisoners from other countries in your region or use
those days to raise awareness of repression mechanisms and how anarchist communities can
fight against them!
This was the week of solidarity with anarchist prisoners in 2017. Read our report on over
20 solidarity actions that took place a year ago in Russia, Belarus, Germany, Austria,
Finland, Czech, Turkey and hopefully in many other places.
Click here for the poster for 6th annual Global week of solidarity with anarchist
prisoners! We also have posters in Czech, Russian and Finnish available. You can add your
own language here.
Get some of the 2018 new postcards here. Print them and set up a letter writing event!
We have compiled list of prisoners - use it for your events! The list is actual as of
August 2018. Get the list here.
Build up security culture, support your local anarchist prisoners and fight back. Do not
hesitate to continue sending your reports to tillallarefree(at)riseup.net!
Nobody is free till all are free!
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Anarchisme, politieke gevangenen
Vrije Bond Secretariaat
https://www.vrijebond.org/6th-annual-week-of-solidarity-with-anarchist-prisoners/
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Message: 5
Discussion on various issues related to workers' wages for minimum wages. But since 16
July on the recommendation of minimum wage of Tk 6,320 from the owners, the frustrated
General Labors They are being unofficially united for the movement. According to the final
recommendation, against the demand of the workers, the movement is likely to begin.
Workers' ---- According to the sources of workers' organizations, the BGMEA has proposed a
minimum wage of Tk 6,320 on the third meeting of the lowest wage board on July 16. The
workers were astonishingly surprised at this. Because, after five years, initiative has
been taken to increase the minimum wage. Five years after the owners propose to raise only
Tk.120. But at this time, the daily expenditure of the people increased manifold. And the
workers are so angry. Workers are connecting with different organizations in connection
with the next task.
On condition of anonymity, a worker representative said , " After five years, the minimum
wage will increase. Now it will be fixed, but for the next five years, if there is no
major discontent. So they are now aware of their needs. Workers of several garment workers
have already contacted us that they will go to the movement only if the minimum wage is
below Tk 8,000. They are getting organized on their own initiative.
One of the workers said , the minimum wage of workers in the workers' movement is not
determined in accordance with the risk down. The workers' representative has proposed a
minimum wage of Tk 12,000, but workers demanded Tk 16,000. Even if the workers' wages were
reduced further then they would have become uneven. And if they want to prepare for that
now, there will be no surprises. But we hope all problems will be solved before any kind
of turmoil is created.
Another garment worker said , " I do not understand what the BGMEA proposed to the minimum
wage of 6,320 rupees." It is very likely to joke with the workers. The workers are
frustrated in this. Now, if there is anything in the final conclusions, then workers can
go to the movement. Then the situation may get disturbed. In this case only the Prime
Minister's direction can solve all the problems.
On July 16, the minimum wage proposal was submitted by the owners and workers on the
low-income board. The proposal has been submitted by the owner to the minimum wage of Tk
6,320 and the workers' proposal to make 12 thousand 20 rupees. Since then, the discussion
on the proponents of the owners has been criticized. At present, the workers' minimum wage
is Rs. 5,300.
http://www.bangladeshasf.org/news
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Message: 6
An average garment worker in Bangladesh who sews shirts for fast fashion brands might make
28 taka an hour, or around 33 U.S. cents, and struggle to pay bills even working 60 hours
a week. In Cambodia, a garment worker might earn around 85 cents an hour. In India,
someone might make 58 cents an hour. Globally, the majority of garment workers don't earn
a living wage. ---- Able, a brand that makes clothing, bags, shoes, and jewelry, wants to
convince the industry to make the numbers they pay their workers public. The company, a
social enterprise designed to help women end intergenerational poverty, is starting with
its own data, and publishing the lowest wages paid to workers at its Nashville factory.
Stats on the other factories it works with globally will follow, and it hopes that other
brands will follow as well.
"I think this movement has to happen through consumer demand," says Barrett Ward, founder
and CEO of Able. "We want to be so authentic and transparent as to genuinely equip
consumers to feel like they have the information they need in order to make a good choice.
We want to do that at a snapshot level with the scorecard."
The scorecard, modeled after a nutrition label, shares the lowest wage paid in a factory.
"That's important because it can't be an average wage and it can't be a general labor cost
within a garment," says Ward. "It has to be the lowest wage to actually protect the people
at the bottom." The scorecard then shows what percentage that number is of a living wage,
or the minimum amount needed to meet basic needs.
The label also scores the factory on equality, safety, and wages and benefits, including
everything from maternity leave to financial literacy training. All of this is based on a
third-party audit from GoodOps, a company that does supply chain management audits. (In
Nashville, though the company pays workers $14 an hour, more than the local living wage,
it didn't get a perfect "wages" score because it had room for improvement on benefits.)
The company is currently in the process of creating a nonprofit that can continue
providing these audits for the industry in an unbiased way. Able plans to publish a
scorecard for its factory in Ethiopia this fall, followed by the other factories it
contracts with globally. As the factory information is published, it will be linked to
individual products on the brand's website.
"When people come to our website and see that information, they'll be able to click
through to see a very deep audit that's been done on our manufacturing that shows all the
good and all the bad," Ward says. "Our effort here is not to make a presentation that
we're perfect, but quite the opposite-it's to be perfectly transparent." In Nashville, he
says, the audit helped the company identify safety issues to improve.
He's hoping that the practice will become standard, and that in the same way a nutrition
label can change consumer behavior, it could begin to change the products that people
choose. "For me, the thought that the products that we wear and enjoy on a daily basis
were likely made by someone who could literally not even meet their basic needs is
unacceptable," he says.
http://www.bangladeshasf.org/news/why-this-clothing-company-is-making-its-factory-wages-public/
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