Solidarity Issue #2 out now! Free newssheet by AWSM
Apr 11 2009 11:57
Download issue in .pdf format (2.87MB)
The second issue of Solidarity, free monthly newssheet of the Aotearoa Workers Solidarity Movement. Download the .pdf above, or visit our website to read the contents online.
Contents:
* In the sky and on the phones - workers stand strong and fight back!
* On the privatisation of prisons
* Shark alert in the Hutt Valley
* Solidarity with migrant workers
* What is anarchist-communism? Part 1
* Water meters too scary for Mayor Kerry
If you want to make sure you don’t miss an issue of Solidarity, you can subscribe to either the print or electronic version.
To subscribe to the AWSM announcements list, email info [at] awsm.org.nz. Subscribers will be sent .pdf copies of Solidarity each month, along with other publications produced by AWSM and occasional information - we promise we won’t spam you with a ton of useless stuff though! The electronic copy is identical to the print version. And, of course, it’s free!
Or, you can subscribe to the print edition to receive a copy of Solidarity in the post. $8 for 12 issues. Mail a cheque to AWSM, PO Box 6387, Wellington 6141, or contact us to organise an alternative method of payment.
Apr 11 2009 20:32
#2
Steven. wrote:
Hey, could you post these to our library as well?
Might it be an idea to have some area on the site where groups could stick bulletins and papers? Like this, Solfed's, the AF's etc?
Like a pdf library for periodicals.
Apr 12 2009 01:19
#3
Steven - For sure, will do later today (the first issue as well). Do you just want a post similar to the OP with a .pdf link, or do you want me to add the articles individually as text as well?
And Django's idea sounds good to me too 
Apr 12 2009 10:31
#4
Submitted both, although I really wasn't sure what to tag it with, sorry!
I didn't know whether or not to tag it with all the relevant bits from the articles (eg for this issue - airlines, call-centres, loan sharks, prisons, migrant workers, lockouts, strikes, anarchist-communism, water meters etc etc) or if that would be a bit too much? If you'd like that done for future issues let me know and I'll do it
Also, possible tech issue - every time I went to preview, the location drop-box defaulted back to United Kingdom from NZ...
Apr 12 2009 13:24
#5
Cheers for that mate!
As for how to post it, as PDF is good, tagged with your organisation name.
If there are any particular articles which are either important current news, or key standalone articles which would be useful for reference for people, then please feel free to post them individually as news/history/library articles and tag them accordingly.
Django, as for having a PDF library - that's basically one of the functions of libcom. Individual PDFs can be uploaded as individual library entries, like Asher has just done.
Alternatively, for entire archives of things they can all be added as attachments to one article, like we did with our archive of the picket bulletin. We thought that would be more appropriate for picket because it is finished, and no longer being produced.
http://libcom.org/history/picket-bulletin-wapping-printers-strike-1986-1987
What might be a good way of grouping together different issues of the same, still ongoing publication, would be to do what we do with Aufheben, which is to add individual issues individually, but then add them into the same book outline.
To do that, you create a library entry called "Resistance" for example. Then when you add individual issues of it, you click the "outline" tab and choose to put it in "Resistance". Alternatively go to the Resistance entry and click "at child page"
Here's Aufheben for the example:
http://libcom.org/aufheben
Apr 12 2009 14:35
#6
I should have some time tomorrow to play around a bit and set something up so Solidarity is in a similar format to the Aufheben page - it'd be a much better way to do it in terms of making things easy to find later
I won't post anything from this issue separately, although if the current lockout of Synovate call-centre workers (briefly mentioned on the front page) doesn't end by the time the statutory holiday is over I'll try to write a proper report on that for news.
Hey, could you post these to our library as well?