From lydiamolyneaux at hotmail.com Thu May 17 09:55:39 2007 From: lydiamolyneaux at hotmail.com (Lydia Molyneaux) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 08:55:39 +0000 Subject: [Resistance-precarity] FW: 'Precarity Block' against G8 summit!(invitation from Berlin) Message-ID: Hi, Here's a very interesting call-out from some comrades who aim "to link activism on precarity with the resistance to the G8 summit" in Germany next month. Sound familiar? Something like what we were doing with the Carnival for Full Enjoyment two years ago. I'm now starting to feel inspired to go ? anyone else? LM Dear Maydayers, In a follow-up to the recent mails on this list to mobilise the Euromayday network and other precarity activists as a common force to the G8 summit protests, we would like to invite you to come to Germany. This implies a common block at the demo (2 June), a common blockade in the mass blockades and a common space in the camp (sleeping spaces). Attached is a call out - it would be great if you could spread it in your circles. More concretely, we welcome the proposal to gather in Hamburg and Berlin to join forces as a precarity block and prepare the common actions and visuals. Please bring T-shirts, superhero outfits, and any creative output which has come out of this network in the past few years! We would be happy to welcome you in the week before the summit. If there is enough interest, we will hold an information event (around 1 June) for the Euromayday Block. But in order to organise this, we need to know, roughly, how many people want to come as a precarity block. Maybe the different cities can indicate in the next two weeks over this list how many people want to come to Berlin or Hamburg before the summit. Please indicate number of people and which city. On an important note, we want to stress here that we decided to mobilise for this ‘Precarity Block’ in the framework of the MASS BLOCKADES (BlockG8 campaign, http://www.block-g8.org/). Please let us know if you want to come and join us and we hope you appear in great numbers! Dispensables, Superheroes, San Precarios, Serpica Naros, … of the world, unite and take over! (Euro)Mayday Berlin/Hamburg -------------- -------------- CALL for a common block at the mass demonstration and at the mass blockades against the G8 summit The Dispensables* and precarious Superheroes: the Unbeatables Together with tens of thousands of others, The Dispensables and the Superheroes will take part in the mass demonstration and the mass blockades during the G8 summit in northern Germany, Heiligendamm. The Dispensables* wear white masks and red hoodies, occupying social welfare offices in countries where they are disappearing and invaded and ate from the plates of the rich and the political establishment in a Berlin restaurant. The Superheroes have appeared over the past years in various settings: from mega barrios in the slums in Mexico to Superflex and Spidermum in the Euromayday parade in Milan. Also in Hamburg, activists, dressed as comic heroes, robbed groceries from a luxury delicatessen shop, distributed the booty amongst the precarious and called on people to join them in the Euromayday parade in Hamburg. A common element of these diverse activities is that they highlight the invisibility of most precarious working and living conditions. They feel affinity with the sans papiers, piqueteros, landless peasants, and the invisibles. At the same time, trade unions are no longer capable of representing the precarious work force. The one-time image of the workers movement (e.g. muscular man with hammer in his hand) does not represents a positive reference point for precarious workers. The figure of the Superhero makes the potential power of the precarious people visible: everyone can be a Superhero. It is not us who are dispensable, but capitalism! Dispensable and illegitimate is also the politics of the G8, who share considerable responsibility for precarisation. It is our aim to link activism on precarity with the resistance to the G8 summit. We want to emphasise that the blockades are more than a one-off event: from the flying pickets of the Gate Gourmet labour struggles in Heathrow and D?sseldorf to the piquetero blockades of the unemployed workers in Argentina and the blockades of the train tracks during the CPE protests in France: blockades have become essential elements in the struggles of the precarious. This is why we view the Block8 campaign as a general practise for every-day civil disobedience. In this spirit: pack your super hero costumes, put on your white masks and travel to Heiligendamm! Dispensables and Superheroes, participate in the common block in the mass demonstration on 2 June in Rostock and at the mass blockades during the G8 summit in Heiligendamm! More information on the Dispensables, Super Heroes, Euromayday and precarisation: http://hamburg.euromayday.org http://berlin.euromayday.org http://www.ueberfluessig.tk http://www.block-g8.org Video of 'Superhero'-Block on Euromayday Parade in Hamburg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cxu6FtPofQ * The Dispensables (in German: die ?berfl?ssigen) are people who carry out civil disobedience actions under the same name in different parts in Germany. The name signifies a critique of the capitalist economic system which has made certain population groups dispensable and forces people into precarity. ------------ ------------END OF CALL _________________________________________________________________ Txt a lot? Get Messenger FREE on your mobile. https://livemessenger.mobile.uk.msn.com/ -------------- next part -------------- Dear Maydayers, In a follow-up to the recent mails on this list to mobilise the Euromayday network and other precarity activists as a common force to the G8 summit protests, we would like to invite you to come to Germany. This implies a common block at the demo (2 June), a common blockade in the mass blockades and a common space in the camp (sleeping spaces). Attached is a call out - it would be great if you could spread it in your circles. More concretely, we welcome the proposal to gather in Hamburg and Berlin to join forces as a precarity block and prepare the common actions and visuals. Please bring T-shirts, superhero outfits, and any creative output which has come out of this network in the past few years! We would be happy to welcome you in the week before the summit. If there is enough interest, we will hold an information event (around 1 June) for the Euromayday Block. But in order to organise this, we need to know, roughly, how many people want to come as a precarity block. Maybe the different cities can indicate in the next two weeks over this list how many people want to come to Berlin or Hamburg before the summit. Please indicate number of people and which city. On an important note, we want to stress here that we decided to mobilise for this ‘Precarity Block’ in the framework of the MASS BLOCKADES (BlockG8 campaign, http://www.block-g8.org/). Please let us know if you want to come and join us and we hope you appear in great numbers! Dispensables, Superheroes, San Precarios, Serpica Naros, … of the world, unite and take over! (Euro)Mayday Berlin/Hamburg -------------- -------------- CALL for a common block at the mass demonstration and at the mass blockades against the G8 summit The Dispensables* and precarious Superheroes: the Unbeatables Together with tens of thousands of others, The Dispensables and the Superheroes will take part in the mass demonstration and the mass blockades during the G8 summit in northern Germany, Heiligendamm. The Dispensables* wear white masks and red hoodies, occupying social welfare offices in countries where they are disappearing and invaded and ate from the plates of the rich and the political establishment in a Berlin restaurant. The Superheroes have appeared over the past years in various settings: from mega barrios in the slums in Mexico to Superflex and Spidermum in the Euromayday parade in Milan. Also in Hamburg, activists, dressed as comic heroes, robbed groceries from a luxury delicatessen shop, distributed the booty amongst the precarious and called on people to join them in the Euromayday parade in Hamburg. A common element of these diverse activities is that they highlight the invisibility of most precarious working and living conditions. They feel affinity with the sans papiers, piqueteros, landless peasants, and the invisibles. At the same time, trade unions are no longer capable of representing the precarious work force. The one-time image of the workers movement (e.g. muscular man with hammer in his hand) does not represents a positive reference point for precarious workers. The figure of the Superhero makes the potential power of the precarious people visible: everyone can be a Superhero. It is not us who are dispensable, but capitalism! Dispensable and illegitimate is also the politics of the G8, who share considerable responsibility for precarisation. It is our aim to link activism on precarity with the resistance to the G8 summit. We want to emphasise that the blockades are more than a one-off event: from the flying pickets of the Gate Gourmet labour struggles in Heathrow and D?sseldorf to the piquetero blockades of the unemployed workers in Argentina and the blockades of the train tracks during the CPE protests in France: blockades have become essential elements in the struggles of the precarious. This is why we view the Block8 campaign as a general practise for every-day civil disobedience. In this spirit: pack your super hero costumes, put on your white masks and travel to Heiligendamm! Dispensables and Superheroes, participate in the common block in the mass demonstration on 2 June in Rostock and at the mass blockades during the G8 summit in Heiligendamm! More information on the Dispensables, Super Heroes, Euromayday and precarisation: http://hamburg.euromayday.org http://berlin.euromayday.org http://www.ueberfluessig.tk http://www.block-g8.org Video of 'Superhero'-Block on Euromayday Parade in Hamburg: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cxu6FtPofQ * The Dispensables (in German: die ?berfl?ssigen) are people who carry out civil disobedience actions under the same name in different parts in Germany. The name signifies a critique of the capitalist economic system which has made certain population groups dispensable and forces people into precarity. ------------ ------------END OF CALL _______________________________________________ Euromayday mailing list Euromayday at euromayday.org To unsubscribe: https://www5.autistici.org/mailman/listinfo/euromayday