(the following is a preliminary draft)
SIAMOCI IN TANTE/I: 2 PULLMAN VERRANNO DA PARIGI CON STUDENTI E ATTIVISTI CONTRO IL CPE
"Ateliers Mommen" Cité d'artistes
n°37, rue de la Charité
1210 Saint-Josse-ten-Noode BRUXXELLES
::European Press Conference of the Euromayday Network::
On the first of May, i.e. MAYDAY, for more than a century the global holiday of radical workers, We, the EUROMAYDAY network, are jointly organizing MAYDAY PARADES of temporary, part-time, contract workers and other precarious youth, along with militant unions and social collectives in twenty or more major european cities.
On mayday, we will demonstrate and protest against precarity, the most crucial and burning social issue in Europe today, as the gigantic demonstrations in France of a whole generation against precarity and the CPE are proving. Precarity is a widespread work and life condition for millions of europeans.
We demand social equality for all, the end of labor precarization and all forms of flexploitation, after two decades of labor market deregulation which have caused diffuse poverty and NOT reduced unemployment. We demand FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT for migrants and INCOME SECURITY FOR ALL as fundamental steps toward a truly social europe. We
fight for generalized access to housing and mobility, free download and free upload for all, freely available and sharable culture and information. We practice freedom of expression and dissent, we participate in social and labor conflict, we build media to unmask the corporate or state-sponsored version of reality.
Last year, Euromayday parades gathered more than 200 000 precarious people of all sorts and brought protest actions against precarity and other forms of labor and social domination in the streets of a dozen of EU cities. Why did we do it?
Because we are précaires, precari, precari@s: we are the unemployed, women and the young, the casualized, we are intermittent workers, students, stagiaires, migrants, net/temp/flex workers, we are the contortionists of flexibility and survivors of precarity springing out
of dozens of collectives in our cities and through a transeuropean network to defend our collective social rights and claim new ones.
We have no trust or faith in those who, at the helm of governments, unions, political parties, or cultural institutions, pretend to speak in our name and take decisions on our lives, while ignoring social demands and repressing practices of social transformation.
We will parade on mayday to reclaim our lives and fight against workfare or other authoritarian solutions to mounting inequality and welfare crisis. We want to give flesh with our conflicts a new welfare system and a more horizontal, democratic society, where immaterial,
service, affective, flexible work is not subjected to pitiless exploitation, blackmail flexibility, and existential impossibility. Nobody wants to be sentenced to the same job for life. But nobody wants to spend her whole day wondering how to pay the next bill, while juggling three jobs.
We want life-affirming social equality, not subservient,
discriminative employment. European welfare provisions should be made independent from either employment or citizenship so to benefit precarious as well as migrant people. We are determined to severe thelink between welfare and employment, and between welfare and citizenship, as basic pre-conditions to create truly democratic,
libertarian, and egalitarian polities in the age of war-making globalization.
For this, and obviously a lot more, we invite you at the press conference of EURO MAYDAY 006, this friday, april 14th. Activists against precarity will come from all over Europe (inclunding France) to tell their struggles, projects and cross-alliances, their predicament in securitarian and inegalitarian europe, and what they're fighting for.
At the end of the press conference: Surprise! Surprise! Easter chicks and rabbits will be released from their cages to participate in a great Easter-egg treasure hunt, to liberate the capital of Europe from the social bird
flu spread upon loudly recalcitrant european populations by the Barroso commission and its corporate-friendly policies.
By the way, how come he's still at his place, he and the ritzy others, after having lost two referendums?
http://www.euromayday.org
MAYDAY WANTS:
- full+immediate adoption of EU directive on temporary workers
- european birthright of citizenship (ius soli)
- closure of detention centers for immigrants
- european basic income
- european minimum wage
- free upload, free download
- queer rights for all genders
- protection of THC consumers
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