Relevant event, Saturday night at 2141. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: DZ Brazil &lt;dzbrazil(a)yahoo.com&gt; 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: &quot;bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com&quot; < bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com&gt; 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 ----- Forwarded Message ----- *From:* Andrej Grubacic &lt;agrubacic(a)ciis.edu&gt; *To:* ANDREJ GRUBACIC &lt;agrubacic(a)ciis.edu&gt; *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. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the Bay Area Public School email list To post to this group, send email to bayareapublicschool(a)googlegroups.com. 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