Monday, September 27, 2010

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DEVELOPMENTS: THE STRIKE. SUMMARY OF EVENTS

All my patients and dedicated readers know very well that I have the gift of brevity. I like working with words, but I roll it up just a shade, getting lost in the many nuances of reality. I wish I could change the world with a single sentence, but that sentence would probably lie. Chesterton says mouth of one of his characters that the truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, because the latter is a creation of the human spirit more akin to it. Ahem. It also sometimes I roll up out of pure pedantry.

What I meant is that I would have liked to be able to write a pamphlet magic, a aleph militant to light the hearts of the people and to fill our minds with steadfast arguments that take us by the hand to strike next Wednesday. I do not know it, but I wanted to at least prepare a "summary of battle" to serve as a general reference for the undecided. For those who want to dig a little deeper, enlazaré with previous posts in this blogs or blogs other friends.

1. is totally false that labor reform was necessary to overcome the economic crisis. It is clear that there has been the regulation of wage labor which has caused the crisis and there is no real logical connection linking these measures to overcome this situation. All these excuses are lies. And the fat.

2. The real part of the reform is the liberalization of dismissal. This not only affects this institution, but everything else, because regulation is the cornerstone of dismissal angle of the Labor Law, since it determines the context of power relations between employer and employee. All labor law can become (even more) a dead letter. The result of this flexibility will be a clear degradation of the legal position of workers.

3. The context of the crisis is very suitable to undertake such attacks because now is when workers are weaker. Now is when no one dares to make his move. Now is when growing legions of unemployed. This is where some may believe that reform can get the same job. Now is the time to take this opportunity to "clean up", waiting to hire in the future to the now unemployed less protective legal regime.

4. The dismissal was liberalized in all its dimensions. It relaxes the cause to the maximum extent possible, compensation subsidize and reduce the impact of non-compliance with procedural requirements. You have reached the end outrageous subsidies from a public fund compensation for unfair dismissal, redundancy to cover "the face" . That is, public authorities are working in the commission of crimes. On the other hand, measures that are supposedly aimed at combating the abuse of temporary contracts are more symbolic than anything else .

5. Taking this opportunity, we have undertaken many other changes to labor laws, some of which are also very questionable, as the regulation of working substantial changes or new wage regime pick.

6. The changes that have been built recently in the Parliament remain substantially the situation described above, and even further to soften the impact on workers, make it worse.

7. If you do not want to go on strike because you do not like the union organizers, you're much mistaken. Because, although it is true that unions can turn out an eventual failure impaired, the first casualties would be the workers as a class. It is not right to hurt yourself as long as harm to others. Apart from this, the answer to the problems we detect in the unions has to be his transformation, not annihilation.

8. If you do not want to go on strike because you think it will be useless, I also think you're wrong. This strike is important to us as people and workers as a group, regardless of who has more or less success. It's a war dance . Once to awaken from our dream. To exit the "idiocy" of our individualism that separates us from the life and ourselves. If we now find ourselves and others if not now roared, if we wake up now, if not raise his head from abuse, I honestly do not know when we're doing. Life always leave tomorrow. This strike should be a start. Of a new stage in our consciousness as individuals and as workers. *****


When the English team played-and won-in the world for a moment I could glimpse the beauty and power of people united around something, but it really was about something quite trivial. There was a indescribable force, unstoppable. There was generally a "good vibes" very interesting, a more spontaneous and human relations, a small example of how people could be treated. There was a marriage that, although national, was not limited to: Bolivians saw in Madrid and Cadiz the tourists in joining the ongoing orgy where a community sprang to report that no passport was required. The truth is that I had (healthy) envy of those who were able to live those passions or patriotic football that left me indifferent. It would be nice on Wednesday, united around something not so trivial, we see and experience even if a small fraction of the enormous power that hides the people and afflicted subject.



***** Well, I think I'm back again ;-)
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Friday, September 17, 2010

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About "Scuse Chiam Ma Ti Amore."

Yesterday I saw a movie that a lack of a better adjective describe only as "interesting." The Italian film is called "Scuse ma you chiamo amore", imdb.com translated as "Sorry if I love you" and the English translation of the novel on which the movie is based is called "Forgive me if I call you love ". My limited Italian makes me think that the translation is correct but the second also makes sense in the context of the film.

As already mentioned, is an Italian film, based on a novel by a writer, also Italian, Federico Moccia, who also directs the film. I had never heard of the novel or the movie, I ended up seeing it rather by accident. He walked around for internet, looking for a movie to watch because I could not sleep and I ran with that. Do not disappoint me and kept me awake until the wee hours of the morning.



excuse the trailer in Italian, not found in English and English version seems ridiculous for me to handle dubbing.
from history, not be able to capture both the trailer, basically speaks of the mid-life crisis of a group of friends who are close to 40. And the gang is who is married with two children and spends sleeping with others, he suspects his wife is unfaithful, which passes bored with his wife, and Alex, the protagonist, who leaves his girlfriend after propose.
By accident Alex, 37, met Niki, 17. Niki is interested in and before long and have a relationship. An important part of the film is the reaction of people close to both about their relationship, especially about the age difference.
And that is exactly what got me thinking. I do not understand whom is this film. The plot makes me too focused on men enough to interest women or even to function as a good "chick-flick." Instead, it seems too corny to call the attention of a male audience. And to see a couple, they do not know, the story of how one type of 37 starts a relationship with a girl of 17 does not seem the most appropriate.
However, from what I read on the Internet, both the film and the novel fared quite well in Italy. I think that Mexico was not released and I doubt you get to be. I think our culture does not approve a movie with this plot.
The story also reminded me of the movie "The Last Kiss" protagonizada por Zach Braff y Rachel Bilson, de la cual ya hablé por acá en alguna ocasión.
Si les interesa, la película la pueden encontrar para verla en internet. Yo la vi en el sitio de PelículasID y mientras buscaba el trailer vi que también pueden verla en Youtube. Creo que conseguir el DVD puede ser un poco más complicado ya que al menos por lo que vi en Amazon, no existe en región 1, y dudo mucho que se haya lanzado en región 4.

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BATTLE: THE DANCE OF THE WAR OF SEPTEMBER 29


























1. Beyond surveys interesting and interested, if we do a bit of "sociology of bar we can see that ordinary people is not very happy with the labor reform and social cutbacks that we have for weather vanes governments are considering taking advantage of the new (im) balance of forces to disrupt the position of workers. I think most people realize that "this is so and does not buy the arguments, the excuses, the Government of the nation because it is patently clear that I said before I say and now says dingo (guau!).

2. However, it is also true that many of these people, "vaguely pissed off" for labor and social policies of the Government are in no way willing to participate in the general strike called for 29 September. What happens?

3. Some of the reasons given for not to the strike are "lifetime", which are present in any strike: some are not pissed off enough to lose the salary for the need the money, others are afraid of losing their job or suffer other business reprisals. On these grounds there is little to discuss. Everyone has to look at the pros and cons of participating in the protest day and decide freely and making appropriate weighting.

4. However, these reasons are added others that are more appropriate for our specific situation may be present in other strikes, but here they are with special virulence. These are the reasons the more I want to discuss at this time.

5. The truth is that it is palpable on the street delegitimization today suffer unions in representing the interests of the working class. Thus, many workers do not want to do not strike a "favor" to the unions, institutions that are not identified and why it does not feel supported at all. The legitimacy of the unions is due to a very diverse and complex, it is a very important topic, which try to address in this blog later from a more analytical moral.

is certainly desirable The unions also make a deep reflection on this problem in order to rethink their strategies in the future, because I think we are bottoming out in the model of representation that was made from the transition. For the unions is too easy to throw balls out and merely find that it has mounted a campaign against them. I think it's true that it has assembled, but it is also true that this campaign is able to permeate the public because there really are real problems of representativeness (and employee involvement, on the other side). Now all this has nothing to do, in my opinion, the decision whether or not to strike.

6. is true that the strike the unions convened, as one would expect, since these subjects are legally entitled to it. It is also true that unions have an enormous stake in this conflict as organizations. Relative success can keep up, a resounding failure might further affect the deterioration of their public image. But beyond all this, strikes are not in the interests of unions, but in the interest of workers. unions might like us much, just or fair, but the truth is that right now are the only instrument that has the working class to defend their personal and collective interests at a time in which there are many things at stake.

Whether you fall you sympathetic or unsympathetic the delegate class. If you think that their claims are fair and that will benefit you and your colleagues, you should support them. You are not doing a favor to the delegate of the class. You're doing a favor for yourself and your classmates. If you agree with the objectives of the strike, it makes little sense to reject it because they feel antipathy toward the jurors. You're throwing stones at your own roof. In any case, does not endorse the delegate when you think their demands are not fair.

7. Here is then a second type of argument. You might like the claims the delegate, but do not approve of the means used to defend them. I think now the problem is not that English workers seem erroneous strike as a means of protest in general, but many people believe that exercise will be useless . And nobody wants to lose pay or be wrong with the employer, if you do not plan to "get" anything.

is true that the us government policies are presented as a fait accompli against which always react too late. The labor reform was discussed and approved by the alleged representatives of the People. Now what? Are we going to roll back even the success of the call out overwhelming? Is it possible that overwhelming success? Are we only before a little tantrum strategic association?

8. Go ahead I think that unfortunately, the general strike is a bit powerful weapon to win the battle because the forces are quite unbalanced for various reasons. However, I also believe that at this very moment is the only tool we have. After September 29 we will see what we manufacture. Imagine entering a murderer in your house armed with a gun and you just hand the baton to defend his grandfather. Are you gonna drop the stick because I like to have automatic weapons? The case is that the guy is breaking into your house and all you have is a stick. If you want more, yes, surrender the murderer to see if you can save his skin.

This parable brings us to the question of dignity. I recently read there on the Internet worlds in a battle can be other battles against other adversaries, and that thought seems to me very clear and suggestive. Imagine you are at school and a bully stronger than you gives you pudding every day. "You'll never stand up? How long are you going to take? If you hold forever if you give always what image you go by yourself? How will you gradually transforming dealings with others? What the hell you become? If you stand up, as normal is that the bully me hit a good beating. But it may be worth having won a battle against yourself, feel that you are not an object, punching bag, but a guy with flesh and eyes, a subject wimp, but after all, someone who is alive and moving. Apart from this, it may be that the donkey accidentally touch the flute and the bully takes a hit in a bad place to end the fighting and abuse. Or, if you take the beating, the bully will have a little more respect and I think a little more than if you just be a report object. I do not know. Depend on each case.

9. One of my favorite mantras is the sentence of the playwright and politician Vaclav Havel: "Hope is not same thing as optimism is not the certainty that something will turn out fine, but the conviction that something makes sense , regardless of the outcome . " Well, I think in this case participate in the strike makes sense, regardless of which end up being a success, failure or something in between. Because a personal level (individual-in-group) this strike can help win the battle we are waging against our apathy, our conformity, our unconscious and our (pardon me) pusillanimity. A battle within a battle.

Because I really think that under the previous reasons not to strike (wage loss, fear of the employer, unions distrust, pessimism about the results) flaps also a deeper reason, feeding and increases the strength of all the above. Mostly, we are asleep. Sedated. Amer. Blind, mute and deaf. Unable to react. Any reason is good, therefore, to let everything go as it is.

We have focused so much on ourselves (or our own families), our most immediate and individual interests in the world of Barney the mindless consumption or permanent stress, which we have become what the ancient Greeks called idiots. Those who are shying away from public affairs because they live in the small enclosed world of their own interests, mistakenly believing that this world is isolated from everything else. Do not we want to know what happens. We do not want to become involved in what happens. We just want to be left alone. The blame for all the politicians, bankers, businessmen, trade unionists. We complain bitterly about all of them, but we do absolutely nothing. Leave us in peace. The peace of the graveyard. not know then that we solidum , we do not live in isolation, that public life affects us in one way or another. We are selling our soul to nothing.

10. to transform into something else, we need a little magic. From Maricastaña times, people have become aware of their life and social transformation through rites of passage. Collective actions in which one becomes aware that the world changes and we change with it. So with the "war dance", which transforms people-perhaps peaceful farmers, warriors imbued with the strength of its ancestors, the power of the collective.

Here's a personal dimension, detached, almost mystical. Strike to make us aware what is happening and to make us react. As if we had stayed one hand we have to shake it to wake up, not why we're using, but we're finally getting to work. However, in this case not just a personal ritual or private. Because the consciousness that we are talking about is a form of collective consciousness forces us out of ourselves to discover that we are part of a totality, a solidum . "Solidarity " is. There is a heroism or an act of holiness, but simply a clever act of understanding, a "realization" of how we depend on each other, how we are part of the same thing, breaking the boundaries of idiocy.

11. I think this strike (and the demonstrations that do) can and should be like a war dance. A collective celebration in which we celebrate the awakening of our consciousness as warriors of the tribe, people concerned about the world around us and affects us. It's a start, only a beginning to gather strength, to roar, to become again as a group to be involved in what happens to us, to stop being idiots, to discover each other, to not let the bullies we stick stamped . For surely going to come over for the next battle and we do not want to get back to sleep.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

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EVENTS: SAVE THE DIRECT!

Except exceptional events, pubs and bars of small capacity, those who do not have dressing rooms and stage, can not organize concerts in Andalusia (and elsewhere). I'm not talking about volume, scheduling, soundproofing, licensing, capacity, safety measures, of those things that would interest people ... I'm saying it's impossible that a bar can get a license to organize concerts. A "bar music" can play music "canned" with a decibel limit. But the music has to be prerecorded, can not be someone with an acoustic guitar, we are not people go out of hand. In fact, it is also impossible organize a bar other than to show pre-recorded music and serve intoxicating beverages. In a bar there can be storytellers, mimes, monologues, performances by comedians, small pieces of theater, shadow puppetry, juggling, performance ... You can not do those things if you do not have the proper license. And there is no appropriate license.

The problem stems from the List and Catalog Shows of Andalusia, a text which attempts to list all possible events and places where they can be. Personally, I am opposed to this technical standard. Trying to confine the art in a cage to get it well controlled is a foolish endeavor, because art often ends up being precisely what was left out of the cage. I think it would have been better just worry about the problems that artistic activity can lead to people (such as "noise") and stop trying to regulate the imagination, which blows where it pleases. But today is what we have. And the truth is that the catalog does not include something as standard in our society as the concerts in bars.

Of course, really implement this absolute prohibition is untenable. For many musicians and artists, constituted a direct means of subsistence that they are being starving and here we are touching the stomach of hard workers and, therefore, a matter of importance. Many other professionals today are more fitted and do not need to play in small bars, got where they are because "they took tables" somewhere and no one goes directly from the garage of his home at the Royal Albert Hall , the "quarry" has to be somewhere. Many other professionals are not nor ever will be, we are amateurs, c'est à dire , people who love music and you need to share with others the music that comes from these caresses, just as "soccer "League is not only professional but also kids playing on the field in the neighborhood under the eyes of their relatives and anyone who passes by and is interested in the matter, "culture" is not made only of grandeur, but also small feats of people walk that "grew" their creativity. Moreover, many small employers are concerned to organize things "cultural", they believe that their work must not only serve intoxicants, but also want intoxicated culture, music and beauty, poisons that affect the soul, but leave the healthy liver. Finally, many people need (need) this type of events that are cheaper, produce an environment generate more intimate kind of relationship between people who are different from the most popular concert (and sometimes even allow the exchange and collaboration among musicians so relaxed).

law forbids it, but still exists. This pattern is very common in Spain: the standard is "too" restrictive but not really enforced. In this context, the objective parameters disappear allowing widespread expectations and is only arbitrary and stark reality of power. You can play or not depending on whether Venus is aligned with Mars, the fever that gets at the local authorities, on how well you take with your neighbors, politicians or the police, your relations with the powerful. But also the thing can be confusing. Local Police suspended concerts organized by the City or paralyzed events no one has complained. Sometimes the police storm in the afternoon in a guitar class or in a trial before it starts because someone has been entering a person in a bar with a guitar case (!) There are bars and there are damned unfairness. Prejudices arise on how to dress or social groups that allegedly like this or that music. A huge legal chaos in the service of the inconsistencies of power. Can not be discussed objectively on items such as volume, timing, or soundproofing. If you do not have a license, and you can not have it, I can crack. But what I do when I want, or when it suits me.

In line with these problems arose Save the Live platform. Our platform does not claim the right to harass, or asks that musicians can do whatever we want. Just ask the regularization of a well-established activity and very necessary and, this implies that the activity is reasonable and any regulations governing the imposition of limits implies. For example, if possible to take a license to "bar with live music, the authorities could control these bars duly complied with the requirements of sound insulation. It is a game of "zero sum" in which some win and others lose, everyone involved can gain decent rules.

On Tuesday some members of this platform, brokering and Andalusian parliamentary support for IU, Ignacio Garcia, met with the Director General of Entertainment and part of his team. We believe that the meeting was fruitful and that there is a willingness to change the catalog and incorporate a more reasonable regulation that balances the various interests at stake. Of course, the change is not yet done so and the process can take awhile. It's time to go gathering support to demonstrate that we are four crazy with ideas rare, but there really is a social demand to attend.

Just do not have to think that the problems of live music will end if we achieve this claim. It is simply that at least have a level playing minimum to be observed. With that, I think we will have won a lot but not everything that is needed.