"MayDay! MayDay! We are the precariat. We are hireable on demand,
available on call, exploitable at will and firable at whim. We have become
skillful jugglers of jobs and contorsionists of flexibility. But beware,
we are agitating with a common strategy to share our flexfights."

The multilingual DVD “Precarity” is part of an ongoing experiment of
collective self-defense. It is a compilation of 17 videos documenting on
the rebellion of precarious flexworkers and gives crosscontinental
coverage of conflicts that have been kept invisible for too long: the
occupation of the premises by McStrikers in Paris, the struggle for a
union of fired Korean Telecom temporary workers, the impossible efforts of
Bulgarian and Turkish textile workers to make ‘clean clothes’ for the
Olympic dream.

> From the occupation of abandoned factories in Argentina, to the

interruption of the French prime time news and the devotion to Saint
Precarious at the MayDay Parade in Milan, the DVD is advertising a new
brand of labor activism, geared to young/female/foreign-born Précaires
that have no prior political experience other than the toil of their
bodies and minds in the giant outlets of the chain stores, malls,
transportation hubs and call centres of the Brave New Postmodern World.

At the dark side of today’s postindustrialist economy, millions of
casualized young temps are stuck in ‘non-standard’ jobs, unable to make
plans for the future, blackmailable because of the lack of union rights
and excluded from basic social rights such as maternity, sick leave or the
luxury of paid holidays. While still peripheral in the public mind,
flexworkers are increasingly organising and becoming aware that their
condition is far from accidental and temporary. Emerging conflicts of
rebelling Précaires are bringing a disruptive, socio-political identity
into being. A new form of social self-representation is agitating across
the continents and flexworkers, chainworkers, brainworkers, sexworkers and
foreign-born workers start to share their flexfights with a common
strategy.

Précaires aren’t peripheral. They are core producers of neoliberal wealth
and creators of knowledge, style and culture enclosed and appropriated by
monopoly power. The precarious producers of the DVD (videomakers,
media-activists, translators, technicians and fightsharers) did all
understand the persuasive power of pop culture and are moving the labour
conflict from the level of negotiation into reticular and direct-action
based labor organization built around communicative practices.

The DVD “Precarity” is an instrument for the radical organization of the
consumerized younger generation, left out of the political and social
design. It is a toolbox to investigate on new modes of
collective action : picketing of chainstores open on Sundays (Milan),
reality hacking of hot spots of consumerism (Chainworkers - Milan,
YoMangoTango - Barcelona, Adbusters - Japan), culture jamming (Saint
Precarious - Milan), docu-fictions (Precarity Academy - Milan, Trash
Contract – Barcelona), subvertising media stunts (Intermittents – France,
Michael Moore – USA) and social self representation (Precarias A la Deriva
– Madrid, Precarious in rebellion – Barcelona)

The DVD “Precarity” contains 197 minutes of high resolution digital cinema
and is the third episode of the DVD-zine “P2Pfightsharing”. “Precarity” is
an experiment in autonomous production and self-employment. It was born
through the sharing of resources, material and skills throughout the
networks of independent videomakers, media-activists, translators,
authoring technicians and fightsharers. For “Precarity” all videos were
translated in English, French, Spanish and Italian and the subtitles can
be reached through a language option on the DVD menu.