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  • Zanon – meeting with a Zanon worker
    • Poznań – Sat 27 Sep 2008
    • Warsaw – Sun 28 Sep 2008

• Serbia
  • Jugoremedija
    • news from January 2008 A year and a half ago, more than 60 prominent intellectuals and activists of the world supported the struggle of the workers-shareholders of Zrenjanin pharmaceutical factory Jugoremedija. That support was key to the most important victory of Serbia’s workers over the past eight years: on March 1st 2007, Jugoremedija became the first factory in Serbia controlled by its workers-shareholders. Today the Jugoremedija workers-shareholders are supporting the struggle of other Zrenjanin workers for their rights.
    • “news from December 200…

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On the 16th of April 2008 in the Vobro sweet factory in Brodnica, 21 year old Krzysztof Pruszewicz died in a work accident. Despite numerous claimed deviations and obvious violations of labor rights by the employer, the prosecutor didn’t claim that anyone was guilty and chose not to carry out any investigations. The deceased’s family has made a legal complaint about this. On 11 September 2008, the Regional Court in Brodnica considered the complaint.

At yesterday’s event many other local and national media were present. The prosecutor clearly spoke from the point of view of defending the employer. The Court did not take a final decision. The next sitting about the case will occur later in September.

At 12:00 in the ma…

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Meet “VOBRO” in the kitchen! Come to the picket! 11 Sep 2008, 9:00, Brodnica

While a young man covered in chocolate was bleeding on the floor, the work team busied itself cleaning the chocolate machine, thinking up a credible account of what happened that would not damage the company’s “repuation”. The company’s policy is based on marketing, where profit counts more than the health of a human being. Workers’ rights don’t exist, let alone any humanitarianism or ethics. Given this sort of company policy, it’s difficult to expect any sort of reaction from the owner of the “Vobro” sweet factory in Brodnica

It’s strange all the same that other workers, residents in the town and even local media are stunningly silent about the tragedy, sticking to the “nothing happened” version. But something did happen – a young p…

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Pozvakowski, a Hungarian group, founded in 2000 in Győr, Hungary

The group’s leader is also the leader of the group Trottel.

An unconventional concert-performance, during which and old cinema type projector is used to show old films. Sound and light, audio info-flow, guitars, bass guitars, percussion, electronic effects and “dete” instruments, all of this is put together in a single musical trip. Vibrations and free jazz, sound permeates the air.

http://www.myspace.com/pozvakowski – http://www.pozvakowski.hu

Sunday, 21 September 2008, 20:30 Piwnica Pod Aniołem (Toruń)

tickets: Just 8 zl !!! ( Proceeds go to the Alternative Space LaLucza )

Factory puts profit over safety.

In May 2008, Krzysztof Pruszewicz would have been 21. He was killed on April 16 in an industrial accident in the Vobro Chocolate Factory in Brodnica, Poland.

Krzysztof had been working on the chocolate mixing vat for just 16 days. He fell into the machine and was crushed. Krzystof's family, devastated by the accident, found no justice afterwards. Initially they did not want to publicize the incident for fear of being accused of libel; the management of the factory apparently convinced many that the accident was the result of worker carelessness. After much consideration, Krzystof's sister wrote a heart-wrenching report which was published on the website "CIA". Below are the main details of the case. We hope to have the whole report translated into English shortly.

The job in the chocolate factory was Krzysztof's first. Krzysztof had finished a vocational school as a dietician. In the small city of Brodnica it can be difficult to find a job in your…

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