Topic: Performing artists labour actions in France
lagatta
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posted 11 December 2003 09:56 AM
The ongoing protest by "les intermittents du spectacle" (freelancers in the performing arts) continues, and threatens to target the Cannes festival. http://www.cbc.ca/arts/stories/frenchprotest091203
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Performance Anxiety
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posted 11 December 2003 08:56 PM
This problem here in Canada sounds similar. I guess the real question we should be asking is why the CBC is ignoring the home-grown protest, while giving 3 articles to the one in France?
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lagatta
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posted 11 December 2003 09:56 PM
Simply because there is no arts protest in Canada - or in Québec - with the scope or resonance of the protest by "les intermittents du spectacle". Wish there were. In France the protests, which pretty much scuttled Le Festival d'Avignon, are front-page news.
It is an inspiration to draw on.
There were the beginnings of a significant protest by freelancers in North America (mostly in Québec, and in Boston) about web rights, and the CSN was involved in stuff around that, and I was too, but it seems to have petered out. Perhaps the across-the-board labour protests will re-activate cultural workers' issues.
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posted 20 December 2003 06:30 PM
Good points lagatta. Maybe unions need cultural departments to both collaborate with artists and their unions, and to facilitate cultural resistance. See this article and imagine the impact of a larger theatrical strategy employing many, many more characters.
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