[sudo-discuss] Fwd: {BayAreaPublicSchool} **WE ARE NOT MACHINES** // Chinese Workers Struggle Against Foxconn // FRI MAY 17 in SF & SAT MAY 18 in OAKLAND : *

[Jenny Ryan]

Relevant event, Saturday night at 2141.

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From: DZ Brazil <dzbrazil at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, May 14, 2013 at 7:03 PM
Subject: {BayAreaPublicSchool} **WE ARE NOT MACHINES** // Chinese Workers
Struggle Against Foxconn // FRI MAY 17 in SF & SAT MAY 18 in OAKLAND : *
To: "bayareapublicschool at googlegroups.com" <
bayareapublicschool at googlegroups.com>


Dear Friends :

There will be a presentation on Foxconn workers' struggles in China at CIIS
this coming Friday (details below),

followed by a Bay Area Public School presentation on these struggles by a
member of the Gongchao collective the next night

Saturday, May 18 at 8PM

Details are on the Public School site here :
http://www.thepublicschool.org/node/34332

Hope to see you at one or both of these events !

Love & solidarity -- David Brazil

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 *From:* Andrej Grubacic <agrubacic at ciis.edu>
*To:* ANDREJ GRUBACIC <agrubacic at ciis.edu>
*Sent:* Sunday, May 12, 2013 5:54 PM
*Subject:* This Friday: * "We Are Not Machines!" Foxconn Workers Struggle
in China* Bay Area Tour!


*Anthropology & Social Change* is pleased to invite you to:
**"We Are Not Machines!" Foxconn Workers Struggle in China**

* California Institute of Integral Studies*
* May 17, 2013 at 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm*
* 1453 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94103*
* Room 304      *


           As the world's largest contract manufacturer,
           Foxconn employs more than one million people in China
           alone. Foxconn workers are the iSlaves who face
           horrendous conditions while producing communication tools
           like iPhones and iPads for Apple. In 2012, a series of
           worker suicides shook the Chinese Foxconn factories and
           drew world-wide attention. Management promised to improve
           conditions and increase wages, but the situation has not
           changed much since: Foxconn accelerated the relocation of
           factories to the Chinese hinterland, employs student
           interns as "cheap" labor, covers up work accidents, and
           still relies on its militaristic management regime.


           However, Foxconn workers are far from being passive
           victims. They have used everyday forms of resistance
           against the rhythm of the assembly line and have been
           able to stage strikes in various Foxconn factories around
           China.

           In this talk, a member of the gongchao.org
           <http://www.gongchao.org/> collective will share
           their research and activity around the struggles of
           Chinese migrant workers and will use words, photos, and
           films to present the situation at Foxconn. The
           discussion will focus on ways to support the iSlaves of
           Foxconn and relate their struggles to our own.

           *On gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/>*
           **
           Gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/>
<http://Gongchao.org/<http://gongchao.org/>>
was formed in
           September 2008 as a project for the research and
           documentation of labor unrest and social movements in
           China from the perspective of class struggle, migration,
           and gender. The website offers a selection of analytical
           texts and workers' stories in English and German. Among
           the gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/> publications are:
           Unrest in China (2007), supplement to the wildcat-
           magazine; Dagongmei- Women Workers from China's
           World-Market Factories tell their Stories (2008), edited
           by Pun Ngai and Li Wanwei; The Take-off of the 2nd
           Generation- Gender, Migration, and Class Composition in
           China (2010), edited by Pun Ngai, Ching Kwan Lee et al,;
           and iSlaves - Exploitation and Resistance at China's
           Foxconn-Factories (2013), edited by Pun Ngai et al. (all
           published in German, with some parts translated into
           English). Besides writing and translating articles and
           books, gongchao.org <http://gongchao.org/> participates
           in inquiries and interview projects in China and sets up
           talks and discussions on Workers' Struggles in China in
           Eastern as well as Western Europe and beyond.


           For more information and background readings, check
           out: http://islavetour.wordpress.com/ and
http://www.gongchao.org/.

           * BAY AREA TOUR DATES & LOCATIONS*

         •  California Institute of Integral Studies
           May 17, 2013 at 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
           1453 Mission St San Francisco, CA 94103
           http://www.ciis.edu/

           • Bay Area Public School
           May 18, 2013 at 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
           2141 Broadway, 2nd Floor, Oakland CA 94612
           http://thepublicschool.org/bay-area


           *THANKS TO:*
           IWW International Solidarity Commission, Silvia Federici
           & George Caffentzis, Manny Ness, Bluestockings, The
           Brecht Forum, 16 Beaver, The Wooden
           Shoe, 2640, Georgetown Solidarity Committee, Teaching
           Assistants Association at UW-Madison, Center for the
           Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures at UW- Madison, Food
           Chain Workers Alliance, UCLA Downtown Labor Center, The
           Wildcat, Powell’s Bookstore
           (Chicago), Trumbullplex, California Institute of Integral
           Studies, Bay Area Public School, the New York,
           Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Detroit, Chicago, Madison,
           Seattle, Bay Area, and Los Angeles branches of the
           Industrial Workers of the World, and many more.



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