| Solidarity through RATE SHARING | https://freelancesolidarity.org/actions-campaigns/rate-sharing/ |
| Freelance Solidarity Project | https://freelancesolidarity.org |
| FSP @ National Writers Union | https://nwu.org/freelance-solidarity-project/ |
| links | https://linktr.ee/freelancesolidarityproject |
"Fellow Freelancers: Don’t Marry Rich, Organize! The problem is systemic: Freelance life is underpaid. The solution must be systemic too."
https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/freelance-journalists-living-wage/
April FSP film club! — this Sun., Apr. 14, 8pm ET
April’s online screening is Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty, in 1979 a record-setter for cost in African film.
Staged on a replica ship in an abandoned factory, the film renders Middle Passage and French colonialism as song-and-dance agitprop, jumping through time & place without set change. This is militant cinema on a budget, “a musical comedy and a musical tragedy,” in Hondo’s own words.
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdX7hzndQdfSnYAV7qxdj7c8QTf9zsZtah48Z0t3jMualTIVg/viewform
Headed to Chicago for Labor Notes 2024? Know a journalist or other media worker who is?
National Writers Union / Freelance Solidarity Project host a happy hour together with Chicago Headline Club on Saturday 4/20, 7pm CT. Come hang! Sleeping Village on Belmont Ave. We’re bringing the pizza.
RSVP: https://bit.ly/mwhh
National Writers Union - Freelance Solidarity Project and the Chicago Headline Club look forward to seeing you at our Happy Hour on Saturday, April 20 at Sleeping Village at 7pm. Whether you're a media worker in town for Labor Notes or a Chicago local, we hope you can join us for socializing & solidarity! Note: To exercise covid precautions, we ask that you wear a mask except while eating or outside. If weather permits, we'll gather in the outdoor seating area.
The co-op ran its first Comics Worker Survey in June 2023 and received over 100 US respondents working in mainstream & self publishing
We will gather data annually in order to provide insight into the economic realities of comics workers,decrease the range of pay inequity,and set expectations for workers & employers
Let this serve as a rallying cry to those working in the industry to collectively demand livable & sustainable pay!
https://cartoonist.coop/journal/the-2023-comics-worker-survey/
April FSP film club! — this Sun., Apr. 14, 8pm ET
April’s online screening is Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty, in 1979 a record-setter for cost in African film.
Staged on a replica ship in an abandoned factory, the film renders Middle Passage and French colonialism as song-and-dance agitprop, jumping through time & place without set change. This is militant cinema on a budget, “a musical comedy and a musical tragedy,” in Hondo’s own words.
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdX7hzndQdfSnYAV7qxdj7c8QTf9zsZtah48Z0t3jMualTIVg/viewform
JOURNALISM FUTURES The Fight Ahead
Tuesday 9 April, 7pm ET/4pm PT
Brandi Collins-Dexter, Natl Cntr on Race & Digital Justice
Matt Pearce, Media Guild of the West
Victor Pickard, UPenn Media, Inequality & Change Cntr
moderator Kate Harloe, Natl Writers Union / Freelance Solidarity Project
Worried about mass layoffs, publication closures, and how the collapse of the media industry undermines democracy? It’s time to organize. Join the National Writers Union – Freelance Solidarity Project for a panel discussion about the present and future of the media industry. Brandi Collins-Dexter, Matt Pearce and Victor Pickard will consider how we got here […]
“Workers in Palestine, the group formed by Palestinian unions, has created a number of online resources, including a guidance sheet for unions on building solidarity with Palestine, a companion guide for community activists, and a model motion.
The comprehensive ‘Who Arms Israel?’ toolkit offers guidance for action and suggests locations. …
As with all union organizing, the greatest successes come through long-term efforts to engage the rank and file.”
https://labornotes.org/2023/12/unionists-around-world-block-weapons-bound-israel
An appeal from Palestinian unions for global solidarity has elicited unprecedented worker-led actions in Italy, Canada, India, Belgium, Spain, and the U.K. Israel’s military attack on Gaza has killed more than 18,000 people, injured nearly 50,000, and displaced 1.9 million, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. In an urgent call on October 16, Palestinian unions and professional associations asked unions abroad to “Stop Arming Israel,” given the military and diplomatic support for Israel coming from the U.S. and the European Union.
December FSP film club! — this Sun., Dec. 17, 8pm ET
This online screening brings together several films touching themes of food, family, and wealth redistribution. The main one will be Jumana Manna’s Foragers, which follows West Bank Palestinians harvesting herbs in defiance of occupation edict.
For opening short we have the Per Ahlin cartoon Christopher’s Christmas Mission, about a postal worker stealing presents from rich people and giving them to the poor.
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5dnmBv1xm6EsicphiVjrsGwJtlgnvjKqi4MsrO-nI8tmkqQ/viewform
“According to staffers present at the meeting, management gave them an ultimatum: sign a side agreement allowing the company to hire non-union contractors, or Mailchimp walks not only from the new series, but from the ads and existing show as well.” — https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/14/24002001/mailchimp-pineapple-street-union-podcast-canceled
contractually stipulating that your account’s staffed by non-union labor is
well, it’s certainly a look
December FSP film club! — this Sun., Dec. 17, 8pm ET
This online screening brings together several films touching themes of food, family, and wealth redistribution. The main one will be Jumana Manna’s Foragers, which follows West Bank Palestinians harvesting herbs in defiance of occupation edict.
For opening short we have the Per Ahlin cartoon Christopher’s Christmas Mission, about a postal worker stealing presents from rich people and giving them to the poor.
RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5dnmBv1xm6EsicphiVjrsGwJtlgnvjKqi4MsrO-nI8tmkqQ/viewform
Edward Hasbrouck
Cartoonist Cooperative
Ethan Marcotte