"MayDay! MayDay! We are the precarious. We are hireable on demand, available on call, exploitable at will and firable at whim. We have become skillful jugglers of jobs and contortionists of flexibility. But beware: we are agitating with a common strategy to share our flexfights!""In the highlight of the neoliberal economy based on immaterial production and flexible labour, ‘Precarity’ catches the social and economic insecurity of our everyday life. For us: legal or illegalised migrants, unemployed workers without welfare-state guarantees, freelancers, temps, part-timers, students and flexworkers, ‘precarity’ means the permanent fragility of our income, job or housing.‘Precarity’ is a codeword. It allows us to connect, communicate and circulate our localised flexfights. Across Europe and other continents, we’ve organised ourselves and showed our angry face through innovative actions: we’ve blocked commercial chains, occupied abandoned factories, interrupted the prime time news, stole champaign in supermarkets and showed our devotion to Saint Precarious at the MayDay Parade ..."
The multilingual DVD “Precarity” is part of this ongoing experiment of distributed auto-organisation and collective self-defense. Through a compilation of 17 videos, “Precarity” links together diffuse aspects of precarity and features the unexpected and invisibilized insurgence of riotous précaires, agitating and striking for a new set of social rights through new and old modes of collective action.
/ AUS DEM INHALT: / / / Trailer 9:01
Rome - Candida TV
Introduction and overview of the contents
Saint Precarious Goes Shopping 5:51
Milan - Chainworkers & Reload video crew
Supermarket procession with the Saint of Precarity
Gimme an occupation of the premises with that McStrike 4:05
Paris - Victor Muh
McDonald's workers go on strike and occupy the premises for 6 months
A drift in the circuits of women's precarious lives (extract) 19:13
Madrid - Precarias a la Deriva
Precarious women on the path of war; interviewing each other
Nous Sommes Partout! (extract) 30:56
Paris - Intermittents du Spectacle
Actions against the precarity of the French temporary workers in the cultural sector
Friend or Foe (extract) 23:50
Korea - Labor News Production
Korea Telecom temporary workers are fired but determined to fight back
The Awful Truth (extract) 12:07
US - Michael Moore
Mexican Holiday Inn workers risk being deported from the U.S.Afor creating a union
Interview Chainworkers (extract from "The City Factory") 9:24
Milan - Marcelo Expósito
Interview with Alex Foti about the history of the Italian Chainworkers CreW
Picchetta la catena 10:23
Milan - Chainworkers & Reload video crew
MayDay 2004 picket actions in front of Zara, Mondadori Bookstore & Disney
Saranno Precari 18:14
Milan - Teleimmagini?
Two precaires go to Milan to look for a job and bump into the MayDay protest parade..
Les Precàries es rebel.len (extract) 9:42
Barcelona - Nuria Vila & Amador Fernández
Interviews with the precarious rebels of the MayDay Parade in Barcelona
Mayday Barcelona 8:52
Barcelona - La Reproductora
Videoclip of the MayDay Parade in Barcelona
Contrato Basura 2:55
Barcelona - UbuTV & Tito de la Vega
Finally a contract at Starbucks..but something smells fishy?
Interview with Naomi Klein on Mayday 2004 (extract) 3:06
Barcelona - Lize De Clercq & Marcelo Expósito
Naomi on precarity of mediaworkers and the movement of occupied factories in Argentina
The Take (extract) 8:28
Argentina - Naomi Klein & Avi Lewis
Unemployed Argentinian workers occupy their abandoned factory
Buy Nothing Day 7:49
Kyoto - Adbusters Japan
Christmas action in front of a shopping mall
Yomango Tango 6:11
Barcelona - Yomango
To mark the december revolution in Argentina, Yomango steals champaign and dances tango in a supermarket and a bank
NOlympism (extract) 10:00
Amsterdam - Vrije Keyser & Clean Clothes Campaign
Impossible efforts of Bulgarian and Turkish textile workers to achieve the Olympic dream /