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Visualizing ideology: Movies, politics and the working class

Posted on 01/07/200709/01/2021 By 3arabawy

Labor Vs. Capital in the Age of Silent Film:

Visual images can often be far more powerful than words. Back in late 1800s, when New York City’s infamous Boss Tweed was asked why he had offered cartoonist Thomas Nast $500,000 to stop drawing caricatures of him and his cronies, Tweed replied: “I don’t care so much what the papers write about me–my constituents can’t read; but they can understand pictures.”
The same is true today. Movies and mass media most impact us in the areas we know the least about.

1,500 workers threaten strike in Mahalla

Posted on 29/06/200729/12/2020 By 3arabawy

1500 workers from Ta’awon Ghazl el-Mahalla, are threatening to strike if they don’t receive the same bonuses as their colleagues did in the mother company Ghazl el-Mahalla.

Mansoura-España update

Posted on 28/06/200707/02/2021 By 3arabawy

Life resumed at the Mansoura-España Garments Company Wednesday, after the the workers received their work order from the management.

Following the end of their sit-in last Thursday, the workers showed up daily at the factory starting from Saturday, and used to stay from 7am to 3pm (the official working hours) but neither production orders nor raw materials arrived.

The workers are supposed to get paid their June salaries today, according to the agreement.

The workers are also under pressure by the management not to speak with the media. There are still from two to three State Security agents stationed inside the compound, according to a source in the factory.

In other developments, the general assembly of company shareholders, originally scheduled on 30 June, was postponed to 7 July instead. This meeting is expected to determine whether the United Bank will pump money into the factory and revive it properly, or sell it to a new investor within the framework of the agreement struck last week.