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How “Just-in-Time” Capitalism Spread COVID-19
Trade Routes, Transmission, and International Solidarity

April 8, 2020

Capitalism has accelerated the transmission of diseases. Historically, most epidemics have spread geographically through two common forms of human long-distance movement: trade and war. The timing, however, changed dramatically with the rise of capitalism. 

In the Middle Ages, it took a decade or so for the Black Death (bubonic plague) to spread from China via the Silk Roads and Mongol conquests to Europe. Then, years to move from Sicily to Britain and beyond, via established trade routes and the movement of armies during the Hundred Years War. With capitalism well established, the “Spanish Flu” of 1918 spread in months from Spain, through France to Britain by Mid-June, and then to the US and Canada in September. To a large extent, it followed the course of battle lines, troop movements, and military logistics during WWI. 

In the era of just-in-time logistics, it took the coronavirus mere days to spread from Wuhan to other Chinese cities hundreds of miles away. It took only two weeks to move beyond China, simultaneously along major supply chains, trade and air travel routes to the industrial and entrepôt enclaves of East Asia, the war-torn, oil-producing Middle East, and industrial Europe, North America, and Brazil. 

By March 3, it had hit 72 countries. Following major supply chain routes, it initially bypassed most of Africa and much of Latin America although now it has moved into those continents as well, with potentially even greater risk to life. 

As MIT logistics guru, Yossi Sheffi, pointed out in The Power of Resilience, “The growing interconnectedness of the global economy makes it increasingly prone to contagion. Contagious events, including medical and financial problems, can spread via human networks that often strongly correlate with supply chain networks. 

Indeed, Dun & Bradstreet estimates that 51,000 companies around the world have one or more direct suppliers in Wuhan, while 938 of the Fortune 1000 companies have tier one or two suppliers in the Wuhan region. The emphasis for the last two or three decades on lean production, just-in-time delivery, and, more recently, “time-based competition,” along with updated transportation and distribution infrastructure, has accelerated the speed of transmission. 

A Johns Hopkins expert in Italy said, “Thinking about our value chains—or the way industries produce goods—Europeans are far more integrated with one another than they often think. If one European country is severely affected, then the problem transfers very quickly to everybody else.” 

That explains why the tracking map from Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center, showing the concentrations of infection in the US, mirrors similar maps from the Brookings Institution’s studies of concentrations of manufacturing, transportation hubs, and warehousing. This is yet another indication that this virus has moved through the circuits of capital and the humans that labor in them, and not solely by random “community” transmission.

This virus has moved through the circuits of capital and the humans that labor in them.

The shortage of personal protection equipment (PPE) in many countries, particularly N95 respirator masks essential to safe healthcare work, is itself the result of decades of production outsourcing. Firms such as 3M, Honeywell, and Kimberley-Clark shifted production to China and other low-income countries in search of higher profits. 

The Washington Post documents that “Up to 95 percent of surgical masks are made outside the continental United States, in places like China and Mexico.” As a result, one major distributer of medical equipment noted in March, “N95 Respirators’ Est. availability is April-May. Many are manufactured in China and there could be additional delays.” 

Not surprisingly, former Trump adviser and alt-right commentator Steve Bannon seized this opportunity to promote his xenophobic agenda. Nevertheless, the failure of the U.S., or any country, to produce medical emergency equipment within reasonable reach so outfits like 3M can boost profits is clearly both immoral and reckless.

The impact of the virus, in turn, soon took its revenge on the very routes by which it spread, disrupting production and supply chains in complex ways. By the beginning of March, 9 percent of the world’s container fleets were idle—and this percentage has certainly increased. Chinese manufacturing output was down 22 percent in February, according to a March UNCTAD report. 

The same report demonstrates that the countries or regions most economically affected by disruptions in global value chains originating in China were (in order of magnitude): the EU, US, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Singapore—all among the most affected by the virus in the early stages. Chinese exports dropped by 17 percent in January and February. By mid-March, the Port of Los Angeles was operating at 50 percent, and Long Beach by 25-50 percent mainly to due plant closings in China according to the Financial Times.

Government responses in the US, in particular, were designed to boost the economy in the only way both neoliberal politicians and Trump Administration “experts” know: subsidizing business and reducing its costs. In addition to the well-known pro-business bias of Trump’s $2 trillion “stimulus” package, government reaction in support of capital in the US has included a command for workers to stay on the job, combined with a tsunami of deregulation for business. 

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) (not the CDC’s) determination of who must continue to work as “essential” labor is so sweeping as to include virtually the entire labor-powered engine of capitalist profit. Inadvertently, of course, the DHS has reminded us of just how essential the entire working class is to the functioning of society in good times or bad. 

This goes as well for the highest of high-tech outfits like Amazon where, we are constantly told, robots do everything. As some Amazon workers protest and about 30 percent stay at home, the company tries to hire thousands to fill the gap. As the New York Times reports, “For all of its high-tech sophistication, Amazon’s vast e-commerce business is dependent on an army of workers operating in warehouses they now fear are contaminated with the coronavirus.”

To ease the “burden” (i.e. cost) of regulation on business further, the EPA has suspended all environmental regulation enforcement (despite the ongoing climate crisis), while the Federal Railroad Administration has issued an emergency waiver of numerous safety regulations. The NLRB has suspended all union representation elections including those done by mail.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) granted “hours-of-service regulatory relief to commercial vehicle drivers transporting emergency relief….” This of course means longer hours on the road. The FMCSA’s list of items covered as “emergency” relief is very comprehensive, including raw materials, fuel, paper and plastic products as well as direct medical supplies. Truckers moving in and out of New York City, the epicenter of the virus in the US, were told to continue as usual, but to be sure to “social distance” and to wash their hands. 

Despite the economic slump, which began even before the epidemic, and the fact that the first seventeen cases in the U.S. were officially counted in January, the BLS reported that as of February, non-farm payroll employment was up, and unemployment was stable. Health care, government, food services, construction, and, of course, financial services were all up, while “employment in other major industries, including mining, manufacturing, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, and information, changed little over the month.” The average hours per week increased by 0.3 percent in February. 

Transport Topics, the trucking managers’ journal, wrote, “As America grapples with the coronavirus and daily life is altered, the nation‘s truck drivers are among those who are risking their personal health and doing the hard work to keep products moving to stores, hospitals and elsewhere.” The American Trucking Association (ATA) reports that truck tonnage rose by 1.05 percent in January and 1.8 percent in February, meaning that, indeed, truck drivers are “risking their personal health.” 

While rail freight traffic has been down for the last couple of years, the Association of American Railroads (AAR) notes that three categories of freight were up in 2020 (chemicals, food, and miscellaneous carloads) and “intermodal volumes of the railroads serving the West Coast ports that receive the bulk of imports from China appear to have plateaued over the last four weeks, indicating that we may have seen the worst of the COVID-19 impacts on the Asia trade.” 

This is highly unlikely. Indeed, by March workers on the Union Pacific and Canadian Pacific freight lines had caught the virus. The US Postal service reported 111 case of COVID 19, while over 300 workers in New York City’s transit system had the virus by April. A new “gig” economy is going viral as home delivery outfits like Instacart, Amazon, and Walmart hire by the thousands and rack-up big bucks from frightened home isolators.

On the one hand, millions of workers will have no choice but to work longer hours risking infection, while millions of others face unemployment and poverty. Even more than usual, workers are damned if they do and damned if they don’t.

This picture will certainly change rapidly as global trade slows down and more and more activities are forced to slow down or halt due to illness, “social distancing,” lockdowns, and self-isolation. On the one hand, millions of workers will have no choice but to work longer hours risking infection, while millions of others face unemployment and poverty. Even more than usual, workers are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. 

With a sudden drop in employment larger than that in 2008, the Economic Policy Institute estimates some 20 million jobs will be lost by July. Already, 10 million workers have applied for unemployment insurance by early April. The New York Times estimates that the unemployment rate is already 13 percent, the highest official rate since the great Depression of the 1930s. Furthermore, as economist Michael Roberts argues, this is most likely only the opening of a deeper global recession.

Nevertheless, the fact that so many will have to continue to work for private employers during the epidemic reminds us both that capital’s desire to continue to make profits depends on these workers, while the “silent compulsion of economic relations” faced by most workers who are compelled to live “from paycheck to paycheck,” is alive and well in this deadly health crisis. 

Furthermore, while some like to say that the coronavirus doesn’t discriminate — after all, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in the ICU at time of writing — its impact is highly unequal. In virus-ravaged New York, The New York Times reports, “Nineteen of the 20 neighborhoods with the lowest percentage of positive tests have been in wealthy ZIP codes.” 

As experts at the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center explain, “While frustrating but manageable for many people the economic fallout of social distancing is brutal for the poorest, most vulnerable and marginalized members of our society.” 

Among the hardest hit are those at or near the bottom of the nation’s food supply chains—farmworkers and those in warehouse across the country that pick and move the nation’s mostly seasonal crops. The majority of these workers are undocumented immigrants. Ironically or cynically, they have been declared essential workers, indicating the economy’s reliance on them to remain in the workplace, where they are vulnerable to the virus. 

At the same time, they are still subject to deportation. Sometimes, they are given letters from employers declaring them essential so they can travel to work, but these do not protect against deportation, especially once they cease to be essential in the eyes of the government or the season ends. It is a scandal that the U.S. has not granted legal residency to them and others in this position, as the government of Portugal has done.

In the vast majority of worker protests across the world, two issues stand out: Paid Time Off (PTO) and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), the two “Ps” of class struggle in the time of plague. The Congressional coronavirus package mandates two weeks of paid leave for those with the virus, but only for those employed by firms with fewer than 500 employees. This excludes almost half the private sector workforce, and there is no mandate for PPE. 

Workers from call centers,delivery services, UPS, hospitals, railroads, and elsewhere are demanding both PTO and necessary PPE from employers who talk about safety but fail to deliver what workers need immediately. 

The cross-union, rank-and-file-based Railroad Workers United has circulated a resolution demanding these essentials. A petition passed around by Teamsters for a Democratic Union won two weeks paid leave for UPS workers if they, or a member of their family, catch the virus. Starbucks workers petitioned not to be called “essential,” and to get paid leave.

Delivery, retail, and warehouse workers took the struggle for the two “P”s a step further. Striking UFCW members in Ohio grocery stores demanded paid sick leave. Teamsters at a Kroger warehouse in Memphis struck after a co-worker was diagnosed with coronavirus. Instacart workers who home deliver food struck across the US for safety equipment and PTO for those with medical conditions. 

Similar actions occurred at McDonald’s locations in Tampa, St. Louis, Memphis, Los Angeles, and San Jose, while Amazon workers on Staten Island walked out on Monday, March 30. Amazon finally granted its warehouse workers paid time off after workers in Chicago facilities petitioned and marched on the job for PTO.

Manufacturing workers also took action. Fifty non-union poultry workers at a Perdue Farms plant in Georgia walked out, stating they were tired of “risking our lives for chicken.” Half the workers at General Dynamics’ Bath shipyards stayed away from work when one worker caught the virus. 

Fiat-Chrysler workers in Sterling Heights, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario walked out demanding their plants be closed. Auto parts makers at American Axle also stopped work to demand PTO. IUE-CWA locals have demanded not only PTE, but that General Electric switch from normal production and use idled plants to produce much needed ventilators for coronavirus victims. 

Naturally, America’s militant education workers took a leading role in the fight for protection. The Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Healthcare workers in that city joined forces to demand fifteen days paid leave and home delivery of food. 

The LA teachers’ union called for “a weekly disaster stipend for parents to stay at home with their children.” New York City teachers in the Movement for Rank-and-File Educators (MORE) in the United Federation of Teachers organized a sick out and played a role in forcing the city to close the schools. 

Teamster sanitation workers in Pittsburgh stopped collecting trash, demanding PPE. Canadian sanitation workers in Hamilton, Ontario stopped work, demanding PPE and that organic waste be bagged before collection. Birmingham, Alabama bus drivers refused to drive regular routes until management agreed to provide PPE, eliminate fare collection, and provide paid leave for those with the virus.

If the circuits of capital and labor helped to spread this disease, so too can worker actions along these links help to bring about a new order of class power relations in the aftermath of the epidemic.

The spread of coronavirus has helped to reveal that today’s workplaces are linked by multiple networks. Trump tries to keep the economy going by having the DHS redefine “essential” workers as just about everyone. This makes it clear that the circuits of capital and labor connect workers around the world and across town. 

Chinese makers of N95 masks connect with New York City nurses, Amazon fulfillment workers in Will County, Illinois, and with UPS drivers in Chicago. Railroad, trucking, and postal workers connect with just about everyone. Worker actions, even limited ones, can have an impact beyond the immediate workplace in today’s Just-In-Time world.

No good can be produced, no service delivered, if the things that enable these activities are not made and moved by the hand of labor. If the circuits of capital and labor helped to spread this disease, so too can worker actions along these links help to bring about a new order of class power relations in the aftermath of the epidemic. 

Just as many people displayed selfless solidarity with others in this crisis, so solidarity across employer, industry, occupational, and national lines will be needed to fight for a better world in the post-pandemic era.

“Things will never be the same,” many commentators say. There will be big changes, to be sure, but unless they are driven from below by the actions of the vast majority, they are more likely to be of the “Things must change in order to stay the same” sort.i Companies will change shape as firms go under, mergers abound, supply chains are rationalized, workforces are cut, government funds pour into corporate coffers, and profits revive. 

But they will hardly abandon management prerogatives or short-change shareholders. Conservative and liberal governments alike will spend like war-time Keynesians in order to bolster corporate bottom lines. 

But will they replace the incomes lost to millions of workers? Will they enable union representation? Will they put even those already shredded environmental and safety regulations they “waived” back into force, much less prepare for the next epidemic or take real steps to head off climate catastrophe? 

Unless there is a massive upsurge from below, the power relations inherent in capitalism’s social relations of production and their extension through “civil society” and government, will be reaffirmed as they were after 2008. Despite the hopes of many and the obvious differences between candidates, the money-driven politics that are the norm in the US today will assure this to one degree or another no matter who wins the election in November. It will be up to those “essential” workers to create a new balance of social power and a healthy and sustainable world.

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Kim Moody is a founder of Labor Notes. He now lives in the UK where he is a member of the National Union of Journalists and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Westminster in London. His latest book is On New Terrain: How Capital is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War (Haymarket Books, 2017).

 

Many thanks to Einstein (Alberto), Luis, Lus and Patricia from CAIWU for their generous contributions to last week’s meeting on the current situation facing ‘frontline’ workers in Britain. Also to our friends and comrades in Latin America and elsewhere for their considered response.

 

For anyone who would like to catch up with the discussion, a recording from VS03 can be found here: https://onodo.org/visualizations/113922

 

For this coming Friday, we would like to shift register and change the format a little by trialling out a more focused 1hr session with a presentation from Fanny (Santo Domingo) on the Covid-19 epidemic and socioeconomic consequences for Latin America. This will include thoughts on the developing economic crisis worldwide and what the world will look like when this current crisis comes to an end. The presentation will be in English with Portuguese translation. 

 

After this, Portuguese and English speakers can meet separately for an hour to gather thoughts and responses before returning for a very brief summary and exchange. After which and for those who would like to continue into the night, we’ve been invited to gate-crash a ‘friendly’ Zoom Party in London. Details on the night….

 

Please join us for the main meeting with Fanny at 6.00pm (UK), 1.00pm (Brazil), 7.00pm (Europe) here: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75124212729?pwd=ZzR6ODF1enRRWEpFbnM2eHFOeHdSUT09

Password: 3yyjdK

 

 

Muito obrigado a Einstein (Alberto), Luis, Lus e Patricia do CAIWU por suas generosas contribuições para a reunião da semana passada sobre a situação atual que os trabalhadores da "linha de frente" enfrentam na Grã-Bretanha. Também aos nossos amigos e camaradas da América Latina e de outros lugares por sua resposta considerada.

 

Para quem quiser acompanhar a discussão, uma gravação do VS03 pode ser encontrada aqui: https://onodo.org/visualizations/113922

 

Para a próxima sexta-feira, gostaríamos de mudar de registro e mudar um pouco o formato, testando uma sessão de 1 hora mais focada com uma apresentação de Fanny (Santo Domingo) sobre a epidemia de Covid-19 e as conseqüências socioeconômicas para a América Latina. Isso incluirá reflexões sobre a crise econômica em desenvolvimento em todo o mundo e como será o mundo quando a crise atual terminar. A apresentação será em inglês com tradução para o português.

 

Depois disso, os falantes de português e inglês podem se reunir separadamente por uma hora para reunir pensamentos e respostas antes de retornar para um breve resumo e troca. Depois disso, e para aqueles que gostariam de continuar noite adentro, fomos convidados para uma festa do Zoom 'amigável' em Londres. Detalhes sobre a noite….

 

Junte-se a nós para a reunião principal com Fanny às 18:00 (Reino Unido), 14:00 (Brasil), 19:00 (Europa) aqui: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75124212729?pwd=ZzR6ODF1enRRWEpFbnM2eHFOeHdSUT09

Password: 3yyjdK
 
 
 

 

Muchas gracias a Einstein (Alberto), Luis, Lus y Patricia de CAIWU por sus generosas contribuciones a la reunión de la semana pasada sobre la situación actual que enfrentan los trabajadores de primera línea en Gran Bretaña. También a nuestros amigos y camaradas en América Latina y en otros lugares por su considerada respuesta.

 

Para cualquiera que quiera ponerse al día con la discusión, puede encontrar una grabación de VS03 aquí: https://onodo.org/visualizations/113922

 

Para este próximo viernes, nos gustaría cambiar el registro y cambiar un poco el formato probando una sesión de 1 hora más centrada con una presentación de Fanny (Santo Domingo) sobre la epidemia de Covid-19 y las consecuencias socioeconómicas para América Latina. Esto incluirá reflexiones sobre la crisis económica en desarrollo en todo el mundo y cómo será el mundo cuando esta crisis actual llegue a su fin. La presentación será en inglés con traducción al portugués.

 

Después de esto, los hablantes de portugués e inglés pueden reunirse por separado durante una hora para reunir ideas y respuestas antes de regresar para un breve resumen e intercambio. Después de lo cual, y para aquellos que desean continuar en la noche, hemos sido invitados a bloquear una "fiesta amistosa" de Zoom en Londres. Detalles de la noche ...

 

Únase a nosotros para la reunión principal con Fanny a las 6.00 p.m. (UK), 1.00 p.m. (Brazil) 7.00pm (Europe) aquí: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/75124212729?pwd=ZzR6ODF1enRRWEpFbnM2eHFOeHdSUT09

Password: 3yyjdK

 

 

 

 

19:02:11 From Vagabundo Social  To  Breno Cancellieri(privately) : Thanks Breno…
19:02:54 From Vagabundo Social  To  Breno Cancellieri(privately) : For clarity this mean that luz is not currently working?
19:15:21 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : eu tenho uma pergunta
19:24:01 From Vagabundo Social : Would anyone like to list questions here?
19:24:37 From Dalton Assis : nice song kkk 
19:24:39 From Vagabundo Social : Alguém gostaria de listar perguntas aqui?
19:25:05 From Breno Cancellieri : James, put something slightly more upbeat ;) 
19:43:56 From Olivia : say hi to your mum!
19:45:15 From Vagabundo Social : So the furlough is a scam?
19:46:23 From Vagabundo Social : Luis said £25 per day?
19:47:38 From Vagabundo Social : Furlough serves he same function as A company Voluntary Arrangement did in 2008-09
19:48:10 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : tenho a sensação que alguns trabalhadores valem mais que os outros, mesmo fazendo o mesmo trabalho -- I have the feeling that some workers are worth more than others, even doing the same job
19:48:49 From Marcos Batata : Tenho uma pergunta exatamente sobre isso Sheila
19:50:51 From Vagabundo Social : I have the feeling that some workers are worth more than others, even doing the same job.
19:51:10 From Vagabundo Social : Yes, but employers are confused and uncertain and *Very* nervous!
19:53:25 From Vagabundo Social : Sim, mas os empregadores estão confusos e incertos e * Muito * nervosos!
19:53:34 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : sim
19:53:40 From spc : but meanwhile people are not able to work, some expecting to receive 80% of their wage when furloughed or at least £25 per day but perhaps in 3 months they will still not receive any payments and it will be too late for many 
19:56:00 From Vagabundo Social : In terms of Universities, the pressure points are coming from all directions. Students are being laid off from their zero hour jobs, some are carers, landlords are demanding rents….. the biggest threat it would seems is the demand for the return of fees….
19:56:08 From spc : there is no protest at the moment.. its not legal to gather together at all 
19:56:30 From spc : The first signs of collective protest will be stamped on
19:56:33 From Vagabundo Social : Em termos de universidades, os pontos de pressão vêm de todas as direções. Os estudantes estão sendo demitidos de seus empregos de zero hora, alguns são prestadores de cuidados, os proprietários estão exigindo aluguéis… .. a maior ameaça que parece é a demanda pelo retorno das taxas….
19:58:08 From Vagabundo Social : The worker segmentation is also a big problem as the furlough only covers employees at CSM and outsourced workers are screwed…
20:01:02 From Vagabundo Social  To  Marcos Batata(privately) : Batata - we need to move onto Hilario
20:01:34 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Por um mundo sem polícias!!!
20:01:47 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : For a world without policemen
20:02:02 From Paulo Ricardo de Oliveira : yes
20:03:33 From spc : so the tax office will collect cash before they give any out. The offer of grants to self employed will also be very conditionally managed to limit the final payout. 
20:05:07 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Força nesse momento Luz Strength at that moment Luz
20:06:55 From Vagabundo Social  To  Marcos Batata(privately) : Yes!!
20:07:07 From Vagabundo Social : Yes!
20:11:12 From Vagabundo Social  To  Breno Cancellieri(privately) : Hey breno
20:11:22 From Vagabundo Social  To  Breno Cancellieri(privately) : Can you translate Hilario please
20:11:31 From Breno Cancellieri  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : Hello, sorry wifi crashed 
20:11:33 From Dalton Assis : Concordo com o que o Hilário disso, hoje de manhã uma amiga minha que trabalha na cidade de Embu das artes o chefe dela colocou ela de férias, mas informou que não poderia pagar para ela pois estava "sem dinheiro" e ainda disse que ou ela aceitava essa condição ou ia para rua
20:11:43 From Vagabundo Social  To  Breno Cancellieri(privately) : Oh dear
20:12:57 From Vagabundo Social  To  Breno Cancellieri(privately) : Let me know when you’re back...
20:13:02 From Vagabundo Social  To  Breno Cancellieri(privately) : if possible
20:13:18 From Breno Cancellieri  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : I'm back now! I just missed quite a bit so Im out of context
20:14:21 From Vagabundo Social  To  Marcos Batata(privately) : Thanks Batata
20:16:34 From Olivia : Welcome Patricia
20:17:57 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : e...
20:17:59 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Quem policia a polícia? Who watches the police?
20:18:16 From Vagabundo Social : https://www.aviva.co.uk/
20:18:40 From Marcos Batata : Que delícia escutar espanhol :)
20:18:57 From Olivia : Patricia is the CAIWU Union Representative at a big Insurance Company - Aviva -  in London. She works for an outsourced company which provides services to the Insurance Company Aviva.
20:19:18 From Olivia : Patricia é representante da União CAIWU em uma grande companhia de seguros - Aviva - em Londres. Ela trabalha para uma empresa terceirizada que presta serviços à Seguradora Aviva
20:20:13 From Olivia : Hilario's question was about what alternative media outlets there are for organisations like CAIWU to use instead of mainstream media
20:21:43 From Olivia : .......................... CAIWU write press-releases and have friendly journalists who CAIWU feed news to for mainstream media
20:22:02 From Olivia : ……………………………… O CAIWU escreve comunicados de imprensa e solicita a jornalistas amigáveis que o CAIWU fornece notícias para a grande mídia
20:22:19 From Vagabundo Social  To  Einstein(privately) : Einstein, perhaps introduce Patricia by talking about the campaign
20:22:27 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : que legal Olivia
20:22:37 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : cool Olivia
20:27:29 From Vagabundo Social  To  Einstein(privately) : Cleaning company? Is this company outsourced from Aviva?
20:28:33 From Vagabundo Social : https://www.fnlondon.com/articles/cleaners-at-aviva-plan-strike-over-working-conditions-20191028
20:29:28 From Vagabundo Social : https://www.uk.issworld.com/  ?
20:30:40 From Olivia : Patricia "Problems with the out-sourced company that provides cleaning services to the client company (Aviva) - they want to make cuts by dismissing cleaners. Patricia spread the word  through WhatsApp and facebook and then they did an interview with a big mainstream newspaper The Financial Times when a friendly journalist approached Patricia. The client (Aviva) read the article. it was helpful for raising awareness."
20:31:05 From Vagabundo Social  To  October Blue(privately) : John, would you like to respond here or wait for your question?
20:31:34 From Olivia : …………….. Patricia "Problemas com a empresa terceirizada que fornece serviços de limpeza para a empresa cliente (Aviva) - eles querem fazer cortes dispensando produtos de limpeza. Patricia espalhou a notícia pelo WhatsApp e facebook e, em seguida, eles fizeram uma entrevista com um grande jornal. Financial Times, quando um jornalista amigável se aproximou de Patricia. O cliente (Aviva) leu o artigo. Foi útil para aumentar a conscientização ".
20:34:12 From Olivia : .......................................…. Alberto - Friendly journalists will write articles, but the Union have to keep the message 'mainstream' in order for the story to be published …………………………………… Alberto - Jornalistas amigáveis escreverão artigos, mas a União terá que manter a mensagem 'mainstream' para ser coberta
20:35:00 From Vagabundo Social  To  Breno Cancellieri(privately) : Hey Breno, are you OK? I know how difficult this must be…. So many thanks.
20:35:33 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Thanks Olivia
20:36:07 From Breno Cancellieri  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : I'm okay, a bit tired - some of the questions can be a bit difficult to translate and whatnot.  
20:37:53 From Vagabundo Social  To  Breno Cancellieri(privately) : Thanks so much!!
20:38:49 From Olivia : Alberto - without being able to protest and organise face-to-face we must make strategies to effect the economy in other ways. We can still strike, we can still withdraw work. ……………………………… Alberto - sem poder protestar e organizar pessoalmente, precisamos fazer estratégias para afetar a economia de outras maneiras. Ainda podemos atacar, ainda podemos retirar o trabalho.
20:41:32 From spc : We have to overcome the isolation before it comes to an official end.
20:41:47 From Vagabundo Social  To  Breno Cancellieri(privately) : severely weakened by our isolation
20:42:02 From Vagabundo Social : severely weakened by our isolation
20:42:35 From Vagabundo Social : severamente enfraquecido pelo nosso isolamento
20:43:22 From spc : that is a vital move forward for us to choreograph in this time away from the street.  
20:43:47 From spc : We have to assume that these conditions of control will stay in place for the remainder of the year so to organise and build consensus on a plan needs to be communicated much as we are doing now plus plus plus 
20:44:04 From Breno Cancellieri  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : I got to head off in a second 
20:44:26 From Vagabundo Social : A massive thankyou to Breno who must be pretty tired by now and will have to head off in a minute…
20:44:53 From Samsung i3 : Thankyou Breno 
20:50:54 From Vagabundo Social  To  Marcos Batata(privately) : I’m very conscious that Fanny has been with us and has not had a chance to speak yet… any way you can bring her in?
20:51:23 From Vagabundo Social  To  FANNYV(privately) : Do you have a question or observation you’d like to make
20:51:56 From Vagabundo Social  To  FANNYV(privately) : Thankyou for joining us?
20:54:31 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Interesses econômicos vem com uma roupa de interesses humanitários -- Economic interests come with a clothing of humanitarian interests
20:55:29 From spc : So by co-ordinating online exchange, syncronising the challenge to these assertions of control internationally is the illumination on these issues we must all bring to public awareness
20:59:39 From Vagabundo Social  To  Marcos Batata(privately) : Batata friend… are you OK with this?
20:59:59 From Vagabundo Social  To  Marcos Batata(privately) : Do you need to make a break in the translation?
21:01:49 From October Blue  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : What Fanny says is absolutely right and on reason for asking about the timing, and who controls when this isolation can be finished is Nelson from 2 weeks ago worried that if in Brazil people were out on the streets from hunger they would be violently attacked by the Brazilian state. As for Haiti having only just recovered from cholera brought to the island by UN soldiers.
21:03:32 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : "Existe uma mão invisível, que pretende por para fora quem esta nas franjas, populações periféricas, imigrantes... a população mais fragilizada, como também os países mais fragilizados, isso parece ser uma preparação para uma catástrofe" Hilário
21:03:45 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : "There is an invisible hand, which seeks to put out whoever is on the fringes, peripheral populations, immigrants ... the most fragile population, as well as the most fragile countries, this seems to be a preparation for a catastrophe". Hilário
21:05:03 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : "Projeto estrutural, neocolonial... querem descartar dezenas de milhões de pessoas." "As quem não conseguem parar de trabalhar estão na linha do tiro, pela fome..." "Existe no  Brasil um governo que ajudada pela mídia que quer colocar essa franja para fora" Hilário
21:05:10 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : "Structural, neocolonial project ... they want to discard tens of millions of people." "Those who cannot stop working are on the line of fire, due to hunger ..." "There is a government in Brazil that, helped by the media, wants to put this fringe out" Hilário
21:07:44 From Vagabundo Social  To  Marcos Batata(privately) : We will need to call this meeting to an end soon and I have no idea how to do it….
21:08:07 From Vagabundo Social  To  Marcos Batata(privately) : But we can invite people to just hang out and listen to music…..
21:08:31 From Vagabundo Social  To  Marcos Batata(privately) : ….perhaps invite Fanny to present next week?…
21:10:48 From October Blue  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : my original question to Einstein is still relevant to Dominican Republic, that is who determines, who has the power, to say ,the isolation policy is over.
21:10:49 From spc : I met with Breno before this meeting and he advised us to look at Dischord an open source chat space coordination system that we can make use of in many languages...
21:16:23 From spc : https://discordapp.com
21:17:43 From spc  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : hiya, I got to bail!
21:18:35 From Vagabundo Social  To  spc(privately) : Totally understand!! I’m not sure how to close the meeting…. It’s also incredibly interesting
21:20:06 From Vagabundo Social  To  Marcos Batata(privately) : Batata my friend, we need to find a way to close the meeting….. in a gentle way and pick up next week
21:20:12 From spc  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : yes agreed.. well we need to be sure everyone has the oportunity or get involved in the coodination for next meetup
21:20:58 From Vagabundo Social : Disturbing supply chains is the most effective response…?
21:21:34 From Vagabundo Social : Supply chains and logistics are the new battleground….
21:25:31 From FANNYV  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : [email protected]
21:25:41 From FANNYV : [email protected]
21:27:40 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Entramos em um ponto de projetar um outro modelo de sociedade, mas acredito que podemos aprofundar na próxima reunião - - We have entered a point of projecting another model of society, but I believe that we can go deeper in the next meeting
21:28:43 From Vagabundo Social  To  FANNYV(privately) : yes
21:28:48 From Vagabundo Social  To  FANNYV(privately) : luz
21:30:41 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : manda o nome da música para a gente ouvir depois, por favor - - send the name of the song for us to hear later, please
21:33:50 From Vagabundo Social : https://youtu.be/ebR3Yur1KjY
21:35:00 From Einstein  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : Cumbia sampuesana
21:36:34 From Einstein : Cumbia sampuesana
21:39:29 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Meu pedido https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmXUQ1-6f9c mandei no zap
21:40:24 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Banditismo por uma questão de classe
21:40:29 From Paulo Ricardo de Oliveira : thank you all
21:40:37 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Banditry for the sake of class
21:40:39 From Paulo Ricardo de Oliveira : nação zumbi
21:44:01 From Dalton Assis : People, i have to go! until next week folks 
21:44:13 From Dalton Assis : have nice weekend for all
21:44:22 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Adoro o Vandré
21:44:22 From Vagabundo Social : Great to see you again Dalton
21:44:38 From Vagabundo Social : Batata, can I play something afterwards
21:45:40 From Vagabundo Social : Shall we set up an order of play?
21:46:07 From Patricia : People, i have to go! Isee you nex  week 🙌God bless you Amigos 
21:46:23 From Vagabundo Social : Yes Patricia!
21:46:32 From Vagabundo Social : See you next week
21:46:44 From Samsung i3 : Obrigada Patricia 
21:55:21 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RWMzcRgYsc Clube da Esquina II
22:02:07 From Vagabundo Social : Hey Batata is this what we’re listening to?
22:02:39 From Vagabundo Social : Hey Einstein, where are you brother?
22:02:49 From Vagabundo Social : Where are those Colombian sounds?
22:03:04 From Einstein : After batata
22:03:07 From Samsung i3 : good memory
22:03:40 From Vagabundo Social : What a great pleasure to be with such wonderful friends!
22:04:10 From Vagabundo Social : Que grande prazer estar com esses amigos maravilhoso
22:04:55 From Vagabundo Social : beautiful!!
22:09:35 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGjzfOhQ_eI&list=PL8EA89086C668746A&index=60 Certas Coisas - Milton Nascimento
22:09:41 From Vagabundo Social : Can I play a drunken Irish song
22:09:49 From Vagabundo Social : After Sheila?
22:12:01 From Einstein : Yes please
22:12:56 From Vagabundo Social : instead of Irish I will play German
22:13:02 From Vagabundo Social : If OK
22:13:53 From Vagabundo Social : Hey Luz, what was the great record you played on the picket line recently
22:14:09 From Einstein  To  Vagabundo Social(privately) : olivia in the background look like have afro hair
22:14:27 From Vagabundo Social  To  Einstein(privately) : haha
22:14:32 From Samsung i3 : Friends I need to go. I have a few things to settle around the house. It was great and very great to be with you. great weekend
22:14:37 From Samsung i3 : Amigos preciso ir. Tenho algumas coisas para acertar pela casa. Foi ótimo e muito grandioso estar com vocês. ótimo fim de semana
22:15:06 From Paulo Ricardo de Oliveira : taqsim arabic oud music - سهرة مع تقاسيم عزف عود
22:15:48 From Vagabundo Social : Thanks - paulo - I love it
22:18:31 From Marcos Batata : choose one music Olivia :)
22:19:19 From Vagabundo Social : i’m thinking. . . .
22:19:29 From Paulo Ricardo de Oliveira : Thank you....
22:20:12 From Vagabundo Social : Hey Lu
22:20:20 From Vagabundo Social : Luz please…
22:23:46 From Olivia : Nine Simone - Love Me or Leave Me
22:24:33 From Einstein : Anthony check your phone
22:26:50 From Olivia : ahahahahahah ALBERTo
22:42:42 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Daniela Mercury - Nobre Vagabundo
22:46:45 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : Whats it name the song?
22:46:55 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : meus escritos em inglês
22:47:47 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : sorry my inglês :D
22:48:18 From Olivia : Shirley & Lee - Lee Goofed
22:48:29 From Sheyla Maria Alves de Melo : <3 thanks
22:48:52 From Olivia : XX

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