Organizers: North-East Antifascists [NEA], Freie Arbeiter*innen Union (FAU) Berlin, Berlin Migrant Strikers, Hände weg vom Wedding, BASTA – Erwerbslosenberatung, Freilichtbühne Weißensee
Supported by: Buchladen zur schwankenden Weltkugel
Ditching the fear
I/D 2015, 80 min | Original version with german subtitles
Direction: Rosa Cannone & Johanna Schellhagen | Production: Labournet.tv
- with the director and other guests
8pm (introduction) 9pm (movie start) | Freilichtbühne Weißensee (Große Seestraße 8-10, 13086 Berlin)
Since 2008 in northern Italy, unusual things have been happening.
Companies, the polical class and the media are using the onset of the
crisis to further undermine workers’ rights, which have been, up until
now, crushed. On the other side, a lively and strong resistance has been
forming at the bottom end of the wage scale. Of all people, it is the
precarious and largely migrant workers in the logistics sector who have,
through solidarity and effective organising, been successful in
overcoming their isolation and degrading working conditions. A struggle
that hasn’t just changed their working conditions but has changed their
whole lives. »I’d been talking with the girls since 2012 because I came to know about this union called SI Cobas.
But there has been a lot of fear because they put you in a condition of
servility, you are enslaved to the point that you can’t even say »a«.
You don’t say anything, you work item after item after item… So I’d been
speaking with the girls since 2012 and I don’t know how it happened. It
was good luck.« (Yoox Worker, from the film)
The filmmakers will be present. 8pm there will be a substantive input on the self-organization of migrant workers and the emergence of the film.