A teach-in on capitalism, profit motives, wage labour and more!
This may be especially useful for coffee shop workers as an introduction
into the context of our work. Many of us do not think about the connections
between our jobs and society as a whole. This workshop will directly link
the profit that accumulates because of our hard work and where it ends up.
There will be a breakdown of this entire process so we can better understand
the way our bosses use cheap labour and cheap business costs to make
themselves richer!
Here is a quote I found the other day, about service industry exploitation in
the book, "Work." Crimethinc. Ex-workers Collective released "Work" this year,
and introduce and outline many different relevant atrocities that we endure through
capitalism and especially as workers.
"A worker's personal quirks and secrets, previously the only territory beyond the reach of the market, become commodities to be sold like any other. In this regard, the service industry represents a front in the total colonization of our social lives."
SEEING THE STRINGS: A SERIES OF TEACH-INS ON THE OPPRESSIONS THAT HOLD CAPITALISM UP
FRIDAY, MARCH 23RD 7-9 PM
Entry by donation. No one turned away!
Vancouver Public Library
Central Library: Alma Vandusen and Peter Kaye Room
if you would like to contact these folks
seeingthestrings@gmail.com
seeingthestrings.wordpress.com
We will collectively confront specific grievances or problems that arise in our workplaces in Vancouver. Jobs like ours (gendered/low income/service industry labour) are the ones that allow these empires to exist and expand. We are currently running an industry wide call out to all sympathetic coffee shop workers. We work with "direct unionism" principles and IWW tactics.
