Occupy Wall Street Activists Disrupt Sotheby's Art Auction

Friday 23 September 2011

by: Matt Renner, Truthout | Video

Activists from the ongoing occupation in lower Manhattan, called"Occupy Wall Street," infiltrated an art auction at the famous Sotheby's auction house and gallery to give voice to the demands of the Occupy Wall Street movement and to stand in solidarity with Sotheby's workers who have been locked out in an ongoing labor dispute.

Video of the action is below:

Forty-three members of the Teamsters Local 814, the art handlers at Sotheby's, were locked out on August 1, in the midst of contract negotiations. A press release issued by the Occupy Wall Street activists describes the hardball negotiating tactics of the Sotheby's management as a bid to destroy their workers' retirement protections and to replace the skilled handlers with temporary workers without benefits: "[Sotheby's] wants the art handlers to give up their 401K plan and work a reduced 36-hour week, effectively a 10 percent wage cut. The company also wants to cap workers' overtime, eliminate certain titles that pay more, and, in initial bargaining, wanted workers to give up their right to sue over charges of discrimination."

To UNCUT κάνει μάθημα στη Bank of America

BOA Teach-In from marisa holmes on Vimeo.

Πηγή: Truthout

US Uncut New York City Teach-In at Bank of America

 US Uncut, a new decentralized direct action group, held teach-ins inside two Bank of America branches in New York City on Saturday. The classes were held to discuss the inherently corrupt bank bailouts, the “tax-avoidance” of huge US corporations by which two-thirds of US corporations pay zero taxes and what kind of action we the people can take to stop the massive tax-payer funded transfer of wealth from the poor and to the rich.

The group formed in response to and in solidarity with UK Uncut, a decentralized protest movement which has been sweeping the United Kingdom in response to deep budget cuts and tuition hikes. These reductions in government services are known as “austerity measures.” Despite the political rhetoric, the United States government has begun an austerity program across the country; all the politicians are arguing about is how much to cut and from which poor people. It's time for action.

Uncut groups are springing up across the country. For more on US Uncut, visit the website and find them on Facebook and Twitter.

US Uncut: Making Corporations Pay (Video)

Wednesday 23 March 2011

Truthout

by: Laura Flanders  |  GRITtv | Video Interview

This Saturday, protests are planned in the UK, the US, and Canada against corporate tax avoiders and government austerity cuts. The UK Uncut movement has been going strong, occupying retail outlets as diverse as Vodafone and TopShop, and its solidarity movement in the US is just getting started. Using street theater and organizing largely on the web, the direct action movements aim to make tax dodging a whole lot less profitable for big banks like Bank of America and corporations like Verizon and FedEx. Allison Kilkenny has been covering the US Uncut movement for The Nation, and she joins us along with J.A. Myerson, a "tax avoidance consultant," to discuss the new resistance to paying for corporate welfare.

Η ποίηση του Τηλέμαχου Χυτήρη

ΠΗΓΗ : Καλλιτεχνες εναντια στο μνημόνιο

Τη Δευτέρα 13 Δεκεμβρίου το βράδυ - παραμονές της ψήφισης του νομοσχεδίου που κατακρεουργεί τις συλλογικές κατακτήσεις των εργαζομένων - στο Μουσείο Μπενάκη ο υφυπουργός Πολιτισμού Τηλέμαχος Χυτήρης πλαισιωμένος από ανθρώπους των γραμμάτων και των τεχνών παρουσίαζε τη νέα του ποιητική συλλογή "Τι μένει από το ρόδο". Ημασταν εκεί, ανάμεσα στο ακροατήριο. Και επιλέξαμε να ακούσουμε όλες τις ομιλίες προτού τοποθετηθούμε κι εμείς, βάσει του παρακάτω γραπτού κειμένου. 

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