IWW Scotland

IWW 4 IWD Judi Bari Film Fri. 5th March Glasgow

glasgowchiapassolidaritygroup — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:14:47 +0000

IWW Clydeside celebrates International Womens’ Day with a screening of:

‘The Forest For The Trees’

The amazing story of the fight to clear Earth First and IWW activist Judi Bari’s name after her car was bombed and she was arrested as a terrorist by the FBI.

Followed by talk by US IWW member Susan Dorazio.

Friday March 5th

7pm

Electron Club

CCA

350 Sauchiehall Street

Glasgow G2 3DL

Judi Bari was an Earth First and IWW organiser who was one of the first to
place as much importance on timber workers’ lives and families as she did
on the legacy and future of the Californian Redwood. But that strategic
relationship was too much of a threat. Her car was bombed in 1990, and
three hours later, she was arrested as a terrorist–charges that were later
dropped. Convinced it was a ploy by the FBI to discredit her and Earth
First, Judi decided to sue.

THE FOREST FOR THE TREES offers access into the painfully short yet
extraordinary life of Judi Bari, and a piece of U.S. history that everyday
grows increasingly resonant as once again the lines between dissent and
terrorism are being intentionally blurred.

Starbucks Workers Union Film

glasgowchiapassolidaritygroup — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:14:43 +0000

Followed by discussion on precarious workers

IWW Clydeside GMB Meeting

Tuesday 9th February

7pm

Electron Club

CCA

350 Sauchiehall Street

Glasgow

G2 3JD

‘The Wobblies’ IWW Film 7pm 29th Jan. Electron Club CCA Glasgow

glasgowchiapassolidaritygroup — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:09:31 +0000

7pm

Friday 29th January

Electron Club Cinema CCA

350 Sauchiehall Street

Glasgow

G2 3JD

‘The Wobblies’ 1979 Documentary
Followed by brief outline of the history of the Indusrial Workers of the
World – the One Big Union by Boston IWW member Eric Chester

“Solidarity! All for One and One for All” With this slogan, the Industrial
Workers of the World. aka the Wobblies, took to organising unskilled
workers into one big union and changing the course of history. Along the
way to winning an eight-hour workday and fair wages in the early 20th
century, the Wobblies were one of the few unions to be racially and
sexually integrated and often met with imprisonment, violence, and the
privations of prolonged strikes. This award-winning films airs a
provocative look at the forgotten American history of the most radical of
unions, screening the unforgettable and still-fiery voices of Wobbly
members-lumberjacks, migatory workers, and silk weavers-in their 70s, 80s
and 90s.

Eeerily echoeing current times, THE WOBBLIES boldly investigates a nation
torn by naked corporate greed and the red-hot rift between the industrial
masters and the rabble-rousing workers in the fields and factory. Replete
with gorgeous archival footage, the film pays tribute to American workers
who took the ideals of equality and free speech seriously enough to die for
them.

IWW Clydeside AGM

glasgowchiapassolidaritygroup — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:19:02 +0000

Tuesday 12th January

7pm – 9pm

Electron Club

CCA

350 Sauchiehall Street

Glasgow G2 3JD

We will be discussing our plans for industrial branches in the education and health sectors, precarious workers and training for casework.

Edinburgh Council Worker Solidarity Group now has a website

glasgowchiapassolidaritygroup — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:57:45 +0000

The group supports binworkers and other council staff involved in disputes and includes a number of IWW members:

http://www.edinburghmuckraker.org.uk/

Audio Interview about bin worker dispute in Edinburgh:

http://blog.fempages.org/wp/?p=794

Friday Electron Cinema -Chomsky’s Propaganda Model 7:00

glasgowchiapassolidaritygroup — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:45:49 +0000

Electron Club
CCA
7pm
Friday 18th December

Noam Chomsky (IWW member!) Andrew Marr - The propaganda model.(Vidio)

Chomsky and Andrew Marr of the BBC, in which Chomsky explains to the
disbelieving journalist how the media serve power interests.

Considering propaganda now called "public relations" all consumes our daily
lives - in comparison there is very little discussed or written about it.

After film chat - Are you free from propaganda?

"It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading
us, for so long that we are free from propaganda is one of the most
significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century". John Carey
(Taking the Risk out of Democracy)

http://www.bridgeweb.info/pg/groups/1934/electron-cinema/

http://propaganding.blogspot.com/
-- 

www.citystrolls.com

While we all watch television business gets organised.

Worker Occupations And The Future Of Radical Labour

glasgowchiapassolidaritygroup — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:30:24 +0000

http://chomsky.info/interviews/20091120.htm

Learning The Lessons Of Workplace Struggles

glasgowchiapassolidaritygroup — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:01:32 +0000

'Learning The Lessons Of Workplace Struggles'

Sunday 6th December
4pm
Glasgow Social Centre
66/68 Osborne Street
Glasgow
G1 5QH

3 short films on the Visteon, Prisme and Vestas workplace occupations.

600 ex-Ford workers at Visteon auto-parts factories are sacked with 6
minutes notice without redundancy pay. They respond by occupying their
factories. After the factory occupations and the threat to picket out
workers at Ford's state of the art plant at Bridgend, Visteon and Ford were
forced back to the negotiating table - where they conceded a redundancy
package better than the Fords package the workers were demanding.  It is
the biggest redundancy package ever paid out by Ford anywhere! (25 mins.)

Dundee: Prisme occupation
Another great response to the shutting down of a factory, as the cardbouard
packaging workers refuse to leave and plan to reopen the factory as a
workers cooperative. (6 mins)

Save Vestas Wind Turbine Factory
An unprecedented red, green and black coalition support the Vestas workers
occupying to stop the only wind turbine factory in England shutting down.
(19 mins)

Followed by discussion on workplace struggles and how next year's cuts will
affect workers.

Hosted by Clydeside Industrial Workers of the World
A Union For All workers

IWW Supports Maryhill Finance Crisis Meeting [Glasgow]

iwwscotland — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:50:22 +0000

The IWW is backing the public meeting on the financial crisis in Maryhill (North West Glasgow):-

Maryhill Burgh Meeting: The financial crisis – how’s it going to affect us in Maryhill

A public meeting for Maryhill and beyond: Woodside Halls, 7:30PM, Wednesday the 26th of November

Tenants, Homeowners, Ratespayers, Claimants, Refugees, Migrants: ALL WELCOME
PUBLIC MEETING: for the whole community

The financial crisis is likely to lead a loss of a number of jobs across the whole of the financial sector, across the retail industry lots of people risk losing their jobs, throughout the public sector the government will be looking to slash jobs to pay for the bailout of the banks, as well as to attack and privatise public services all the quicker as the government tries to subsidise failing investment firms through ever growing marketisation and privatisation of health, local government and education services. We need to begin to look at ways working people can stand up and challenge these attacks on our living and working standards. In the past working people fought back against an economic depression and won the national health service.

Today if we stand together we can resist further attacks and begin to better our lot. But we need to make changes to how we have fought back against the Thatcherite consensus through our trade union fights and in our communities if we are to hope to achieve all the good things in life, and the world we want our children to inhabit.

This meeting is going to be looking at these problems and this discussion, so we in the IWW support and encourage you to come along.

September IWW meetings

fleabite — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:20:52 +0000

Clydeside GMB

The Clydeside General Membership Branch will be holding their next monthly meeting on Wednesday 17th September, 7pm in the Electron Club Room at the CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD. If you need help finding the Electron Club room please ask at the front desk or at the bar.

Edinburgh GMB

The Edinburgh General Membership Branch will be holding their next monthly meeting on Monday 8th September, 7.30pm (7pm to pay dues) at the Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh 17 West Mongomery Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HA.

Dumfries GMB

The Dumfries General Membership Branch will be holding their next monthly meeting on Monday 15th September, 7.30pm at The Tam O’Shanter, 113-117 Queensbury Street, Dumfries DG1 1BH (opposite a car park). Arrive early to get a seat.

All are welcome to come along to branch meetings to find out more about the union, sign up and/or pay dues. Branches will also be discussing important industrial activity in the area of which all are welcome to contribute.

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