The need for a vocal, visible and sustained newsfeed highlighting the situation of Employment and Unemployment is missing from Indymedia. Why?
Why does Indymedia ignore this?
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/437912.html?c=on#comments
Surely this is front page news. It lacks cute bunnies as in Animal Rights (last check: humans are animals so this is about their rights) or Anti-Fascism (last check: the BNP want to recruit an army of the unemployed) or Anti-Racism (last check: discrimination against the unemployment is also discrimination against ethnic minorities) or Environmental Catastrophe (last check: the unemployed are part of your environment if you like it or not).
Truth is, the Unemployed are an unfashionable cause. The systematic transfer of tax from workers to employers through tax credits just makes the average Indymedia contributor yawn. The Unemployed do not push any of the buttons that other causes have.
But at the end of the day anybody who is unemployed can not walk away from it. Except on terms that are roughly slavery.
Indymedia ignores the genuine working class struggle in favour of nice, easy and fashionable protests. The thought police will now descend to kettle the idea that Unemployment is more important than Animal Rights, Anti Fascism, Anti Racism or Environmental Catastrophe.
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Where is the Option for "Unemployment Rights"? It is not even a consideration.
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/437912.html?c=on#comments Surely this is front page news. It lacks cute bunnies as in Animal Rights (last check: humans are animals so this is about their rights) or Anti-Fascism (last check: the BNP want to recruit an army of the unemployed) or Anti-Racism (last check: discrimination against the unemployment is also discrimination against ethnic minorities) or Environmental Catastrophe (last check: the unemployed are part of your environment if you like it or not).
Truth is, the Unemployed are an unfashionable cause. The systematic transfer of tax from workers to employers through tax credits just makes the average Indymedia contributor yawn. The Unemployed do not push any of the buttons that other causes have.
But at the end of the day anybody who is unemployed can not walk away from it. Except on terms that are roughly slavery.
Indymedia ignores the genuine working class struggle in favour of nice, easy and fashionable protests. The thought police will now descend to kettle the idea that Unemployment is more important than Animal Rights, Anti Fascism, Anti Racism or Environmental Catastrophe.
If your posting is related to a specific action
(optional, choose only if your post linked to occasion)
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Campaign against Carmel-Agrexco
G20 London Summit
Guantánamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
Oaxaca Uprising
SHAC
SOCPA
Smash EDO
Stop Sequani Animal Testing
University Occupations for Gaza
Where is the Option for "Unemployment Rights"? It is not even a consideration.
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Indymedia
18.09.2009 13:23
You are free to post up stuff that is consistent with the mission statement and editorial guidelines, and to get involved in the open lists and your local collective.
If what you want to find on Indymedia isn't there, its probably because no-one, including yourself has put it there.
IMCista
try creating the news!
18.09.2009 13:29
im fed up with people critising IM like there are a group of people conspiring against your campaign, there are not. BE THE NEWS, NOT AN ARSE!
in respect
you make the news
18.09.2009 13:53
I quite agree