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libcom.org | 29.03.2006 15:22 | French CPE uprising 2006 | Repression | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

A call to action : Be the Media, Block their "Madia" : you know it makes sense !

After the action by brave activists, peacefully penetrating Agence France Presse un Paris we must step up our actions in the war over words. Polls today in Liberation show that 80% of French young people are against the C.P.E. and that 71% of the French population now believe that the current unrest will lead to a major social crisis in the weeks to come. We all know that multilingual information and communication are essential to understanding and action in this movement. This is an appeal for help,www.libcom.org/blog based in the U.K. has been set up as an English speaking voice for the movement to reach the international media who are increasingly using it as a source for accounts from within. Please contribute to this project in any ways possible, promote the blog, provide press reviews from non English sources, monitor and observe, translate key articles from and to other languages, encourage its multilingual development, tell us about similar initiatives in other languages, encourage students, workers, the precariat from within the movement to communicate by writing copy, accounts, analysis, send us photos, cartoons etc all to help reverse the tide of false and biased misinformation propagated by the mass media. In short : Be the media ! You know it makes sense. Thanks in advance for circulating this call ; and for your actions….

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Although I doubt if this strange call originates with libcom!....

29.03.2006 20:06

....As it hasn't been discussed on their boards, and does unusually use the 'posh' word precariat!

Barrykade


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>>sigh<<

29.03.2006 18:11

mummy, mummy, they used the word 'precariat', snigger, blush, oops.

Alternative media happens when class politics fails. More poshos telling us how the world works.

HO HUM.

Johnny Wupt.


class politics is alternative media (and vice versa)

29.03.2006 20:02

Since before the days of the simultaneous revolts of the Chartists in the UK and the Lyon weavers in France, class politics has had to have its own media. Whether this be the street meeting, the Northern star, Iskra, the daily worker, or Indymedia and Libcom, all class organisation requires mediation. The only new thing is that the internet allows a more decentralised media, without any one centre. The downside of this innovation is that it allows dickheads like you, the poster above, to post your pointless drivel in response.

snippets from history (by someone posh enough to use google).


"In 1837, Feargus O'Connor, the Leeds representative of the London Working Mens' Association, decided to establish a weekly radical newspaper in Yorkshire. After a series of meetings in Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield and Hull, O'Connor had raised £690 for his venture. The first edition of the Northern Star was published on 26th May, 1838. Although the paper paid the 4d. stamp duty O'Connor denounced it as a tax on free speech.

The Northern Star contained reports on Chartist meets all over Britain and its letter's page enabled supporters to join the debate on parliamentary reform. O'Connor's newspaper also spearheaded the campaign in support of those skilled workers such as handloom weavers who had suffered the consequences of new technology. Within four months of starting publication, the Northern Star was selling 10,000 copies a week. By the summer of 1839 circulation of the Northern Star reached over 50,000 a week and by the end of the year O'Connor had personally made a profit of £13,000 on the venture.

Feargus O'Connor used the newspaper to question the Moral Force arguments of William Lovett and Henry Hetherington and to raise the possibility of using violence to win the vote. In March 1840 O'Connor was tried at York for publishing seditious libels in the Northern Star. He was found guilty and sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment".

From
 http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/CHnorthern.htm

Barrykade


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