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Wuyuan 'Fields of Flowers', Jiangxi Province
See fields of yellow flowers and ancient river towns in southern China. Cultural focus, nothing too strenuous.
Trip overview
Day One—Fly to Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province.
Day Two—Travel to Wuyuan, walk and hike around villages, terraces, countryside.
Day Three—Walk and hike around anicent villages, terraces in the Jianglin Mountains area.
Day Four—Visit ancient village, hike around terraces and hills, travel to Jingdezhen, visit porcelain shop, fly to Beijing.
Wuyuan County, Jiangxi Province
Located east of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province, Wuyuan County is home to many small villages scattered amongst the streams and forested hills. It is a bucolic and tranquil area, and difficult to reach by public transport. In recent times it has become a popular tourist destination, but we plan to head for less busy areas while still making sure to take in the key highlights, as well as the essence of the area.
Fields of flowers
In early spring, the fields and hillside terraces of Wuyuan County turn totally yellow with blooming rapeseed flowers, adding to the already serene and pastoral beauty of the area. We've timed this trip to coincide with the time of flowering, and will be hiking in and around the beautiful flowers for much of our visit. As well as looking pretty, rapeseed is also used to produce vegetable oil, biodiesel, and animal feed.
Ancient villages and architecture
There are many small villages in the Wuyuan area, and many of these house temples and other well-preserved ancient architecture. Villagers still preserve a laidback way of life. On the second day of the trip we will visit several villages, notably Yancun and Yantian.
Yancun is a village that features many examples of interesting ancient architecture. Many of the larger houses were built by successful businessmen of days long gone by—some with more than three floors. A river flows past the village, and it is surrounded by fields and forested hills.
Yantian is another ancient village, surrounded by fields and terraces of rapeseed flowers – a great place for photography.
Qinghua Rainbow Bridge
Quite a few cedar wood covered bridges can be found in Wuyuan, and on the second day of our trip we'll visit the Rainbow Bridge, the most famous of them all. Built in the Song Dynasty (AD 960-1279), the 140m long bridge is made entirely of wood.
Jiangling Mountains
On the third day of the trip we'll do a bit of hiking near the Jiangling Mountains, taking in the fields, flowers, villages, and terraced hillsides. The hiking will not be super difficult, and should take 3–4 hours.
Jingdezhen, China's 'Porcelain Capital'
The city of Jingdezhen has over 2,000 years of recorded history. It is known as the 'Porcelain Capital,' having produced quality pottery for 1,700 years, with one particularly beautiful Yuan Dynasty-era (AD 1278-1368) piece going for the equivalent of 230,000,000 RMB at a London auction house in 2005.
We'll have the opportunity to visit a porcelain factory on the last day of the trip—but don't worry, no one is going to ask you to buy a two-hundred-million renminbi piece of porcelain! (No one is going to ask you to buy anything. This isn't planned as a shopping stop, more of a quick look at the industry.)
Health warning
Do not participate in this trip if you are allergic to pollen!
More rain falls in the south of China than in the north. Late March and early April are not the peak of the rainy season, but you will definitely need some wet weather gear – the average rainfall for March is 180mm; for April, 239mm. At least it will be warm, with temperatures between 13°C and 22°C.
We will be staying in a 4-star hotel in Jingdezhen, and comfortable countryside accommodation in Wuyuan.
You'll be sharing a room with another hiker. If you'd like a guesthouse/hotel room to yourself, it can be arranged at an extra cost of 530 RMB in total, if a room is available—usually not a problem!
Further details about room shares and single supplement can be found in the documents we send you as part of the registration.
Flights and transport
We will be flying to and from Beijing Capital Airport on our departure and return days. Other transportation between Jingdezhen, Wuyuan, and the surrounding areas will be by private bus, and, of course, our own feet.
If you would like to organise your own flights, we can provide further details.
We will take most of our meals at restaurants in the areas we visit. Bring some spending money for snacks during the trip. Please let us know if you have any special dietary requirements or food allergies.
Kid's prices
Ages 7–11: 6,240 RMB
Ages 12–17: 6,260 RMB
Things to bring
- Passport
- Waterproof jacket and trousers.
- Sturdy shoes, hiking boots if possible.
- A day pack to take on outings. Suitcases or bigger bags can be left at the hotel or on the bus.
- Camera and charger, batteries.
- Mobile phone, charger.
- Hayfever medication.
- Tissues and baby wipes.
Included with this trip
- Meals as stated in itinerary.
- Drinks with meals.
- Accommodation.
- Return flights.
- Local guides/experts as required.
- Any entrance tickets.
More photos
Full itinerary
Day One
Afternoon flight to Jingdezhen (flight time TBC)
Dinner in Jingdezhen
Overnight in Jingdezhen
Day Two
07:30 – Breakfast
08:00 – Check out, travel to Wuyuan town by private bus
09:50 – Begin our tour, visiting ancient villages and taking pictures
12:00 – Lunch at local restaurant
13:00 – Hiking around the rapeseed terraces in the countryside
15:00 – Countryside walk, visit an ancient bridge
17:30 – Check in to guesthouse
18:00 – Dinner at local restaurant
Day Three
08:00 – Breakfast
08:30 – Travel to a local village by private bus
09:00 – Explore the ancient village
10:30 – Drive on to another local village for a hike
11:00 – Arrive at the village and begin the hike
13:00 – Late lunch at the village
14:00 – Explore the village
17:00 – Stay at local hostel
Day Four
08:00 – Breakfast
08:30 – Visit an ancient village
12:00 – Lunch at local restaurant
13:00 – Hiking around the rapeseed terraces in the countryside
14:30 – Drive back to Jingdezhen
16:30 – Visit a porcelain work shop in Jingdezhen
17:30 – Eat early dinner at local restaurant
Evening flight back to Beijing (time TBC)
- All times are approximate, and depend on our speed of movement.


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Mohun Bagan needed only a win in their match to lift the I-League 2017 title on Saturday April 22, but they couldn't get the job done, as Aizawl FC defeated them 1-0 at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium.
In a dense foggy match that made visibility little to none, Aizawl FC defender Zohmingliana Ralte scored the only goal of the match in the 83rd minute to record a 1-0 win for his side.
The home side needed to win by at least 2 goals to win the title, but the expectation has not been ticked off as yet.
While it was supposed to be a final of I-League 2017, things did not really turn out as we hoped. As of now, it all depends on the final round of the I-League to decide the winners. One thing's set: It's either Aizawl FC or Mohun Bagan who is taking home the title.
Current points table
- Aizawl FC: 36 points from 17 matches
- Mohun Bagan: 33 points from 17 matches
Mohun Bagan and Aizawl FC have a 1-1 head-to-head record this season. Interestingly, the two have the same goal record (3 goals) in their head-to-head matches.
However, in the overall goal difference chart, Mohun Bagan have a +14 GD, compared to Aizawl FC's +10 GD.
Here are the scenarios from the I-League final round
- A defeat to Shillong Lajong in their final round match will end Aizawl FC's hopes of lifting their first-ever I-League title.
- Mohun Bagan have to win against Chennai City FC to win I-League 2017, and hope Aizawl loses against Shillong Lajong.
- For Aizawl FC, a draw or a win will see them crowned as the champions.
Key fixtures and dates
|Home team
|Away team
|April 30
|Shillong Lajong
|Aizawl FC
|7 pm IST
|JLN Stadium, Shillong
|April 30
|Mohun Bagan
|Chennai City FC
|7 pm IST
|Rabindra Sarobar Stadium, Kolkata

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Pascal Marthine Tayou at the Bass Museum
Pascal Marthine Tayou at #bassmuseum opening discussing his installation.
Trackcendence by Robert Chambers
Trackcendence by Robert Chambers on view at Emerson Dorsch through July 6th, 2017.
Here Comes the Flood
This week there will be flooding of sorts in Miami. The leaders of major art institutions, collectors, great talents and influencers in the art community will pour into Miami for Art Basel and the array of fairs that happen alongside it. As always, it will an extraordinary coming together that illustrates the depth, intelligence, creativity, and culture we collectively cherish. Precious works have been shipped to our docks and one-of-a kind shows are being staged for just a short week in South Florida, a region dealing with the real effects of climate change.
Picasso Bust at Center of Custody Battle
The high-powered art dealer Larry Gagosian says he bought it. The royal family of Qatar says it bought the sculpture, too. And now they are facing off in court over who owns Picasso's important plaster bust of his muse (and mistress) Marie-Thérèse Walter, a star of the Museum of Modern Art's popular "Picasso Sculpture" show.
Peggy Guggenheim vs. today's mega art collectors
A recent documentary about the celebrated collector Peggy Guggenheim has yielded fresh insights into her life and prompted a reassessment of how much the art world has changed since her heyday. Guggenheim died in 1979 at 81. For Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, the director Lisa Immordino Vreeland tracked down long-lost audiotapes of interviews that Guggenheim conducted in the 1970s with her official biographer, Jacqueline Bogard Weld. Notable for their subject's clipped, sardonic replies, they form the revelatory backbone of the movie.
A Year of Highs and Corrections in the Art Market
In May, Picasso's 1955 painting "Les Femmes d'Alger (Version 'O')" sold at Christie's in New York to an as-yet-unidentified telephone bidder for $179.4 million, a high for any artwork at auction. Led by that sale, Christie's became the first auction house to sell more than$1 billion worth of art in a week, with a double bill that included 20th-century masterworks on one night and a selection of big-name contemporary pieces the next. Many of them were secured by the company's policy of courting owners of valuable artworks with hefty guarantees and no commission fees.
How to See Eternity in a Pile of Rocks
Water and rock have a complex relationship. That becomes clear immediately upon entering "Museum of Stones," an exhibition at the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City. Imagine a wave crashing on a jagged cliff, sending spray into the air in fleeting, elaborate formations. "You take a snapshot, and rock is the sculptor, and water is the material," said Dakin Hart, senior curator at the museum. "But over the long term, of course, water wins."
Ellsworth Kelly, Who Shaped Geometries on a Bold Scale, Dies at 92
Ellsworth Kelly, one of America's great 20th-century abstract artists, who in the years after World War II shaped a distinctive style of American painting by combining the solid shapes and brilliant colors of European abstraction with forms distilled from everyday life, died on Sunday at his home in Spencertown, N.Y. He was 92. His death was announced by Matthew Marks of the Matthew Marks Gallery in Manhattan.
Crowds Going Crazy Over Martin Creed's Balloon Installation
British artist Martin Creed's short-lived but much loved installation titledWork No. 2592 at Gavin Brown's Enterprise on New York's Lower East Side is open until Saturday, and people cannot seem to get enough of the bright-red balloons that half-fill the space at 291 Grand Street.
The Best in Art of 2015
This show coincided with prospects of a rapprochement between Cuba and the United States, and mixed-signals politics played a role in the event itself. When it opened in June, the Cuban-born artist Tania Bruguera was under the equivalent of house arrest in Havana for trying to do a performance piece that invited people to speak freely at an open microphone in Revolution Square. During the Biennial itself, another Cuban-born artist, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, working with a group of her American students, quietly presented Cubans with a similar opportunity to express themselves by writing in notebooks on questions about current events, including whether art could contribute to cross-cultural conversations. The focused and passionate responses of the writers said yes. There was no government interference.


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A Brazilian Federal court decision put the forming of a joint venture between airplane makers Boeing (US) and Embraer (Brazil). The preliminary ruling was in favor of class action brought forth by a group of Federal Representatives from the Workers' Party (PT) and can be appealed.
The court order was announced on Wednesday (5th). The ruling, written by the São Paulo federal judge Victorio Giuzio Neto orders the suspension of any practical measures taken by Embraer's board to transfer its commercial jets division to Boeing.
PT representatives Paulo Pimenta (RS) Carlos Alberto Zarattini (SP), Nelson Pellegrino (BA), and Vicente Cândido (SP) submitted the class action.
Boeing's purchase of 80% of Embraer's commercial jet division for US$ 3,8 billion was settled last July with a memorandum of understanding, but the deal is still incomplete.
In his ruling, judge Giuzio Neto argues that it's in the country's best interest not take irreversible measures during a transition period between administration as it is the case right now.
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Lead Generation: Early-, Mid-, and Late-Stage Buyers
Most companies typically define their buyer stages as early–, mid–, and late-stage buyers — or top-of-funnel (TOFU), middle-of-funnel (MOFU), and bottom-of-funnel (BOFU) buyers. Take a look at the following figure, which shows you how a sales funnel can map to buying stages.
Tailoring your sales programs and messages to this process, you can move leads down the funnel starting from the top of the funnel (early awareness) to the bottom of the funnel (late-stage buyers).
Early-stage buyers
Early-stage buyers often map to the awareness/friend, name, engaged, and target stages in your sales funnel. Early-stage buyers have either never heard about your company or have very little brand awareness. The goal of early-stage content assets and lead generation campaigns is to bring leads into your funnel and get them interested enough in what you are all about, so they want to stick around, consume more content through your lead nurture channels, and ultimately become customers.
The important thing to note at this stage when it comes to your lead generation campaigns is that you want to make sure you are tailoring your messaging for early-stage buyers. Someone who just learned about your company probably doesn't want to watch a customer testimonial. Instead, he is more interested in learning who you are and consuming thought leadership in the form of best practices.
Typically during this stage, buyers are either looking for general industry best practices and haven't realized they have a problem yet, or they realize they have a problem and are just starting their research. Your campaign messaging and offers must align with what a buyer is looking for in this stage. The idea is that through proper targeting and appropriate messaging, you can bring early-stage buyers into your funnel and help them move through their educational journey to become mid-stage buyers.
Mid-stage buyers
A buyer becomes mid-stage after she has shown some interest in your business's core competencies. That lead has displayed some sort of buying behavior and is potentially a true sales lead. A mid-stage buyer should map to the lead and sales lead stage of your sales funnel.
Whereas your early-stage offers and messaging often align to industry best practices and actionable tips, and have a focus on creating a relationship and trust with your buyer, your mid-stage offers are meant to direct your lead's focus towards your product.
If a lead sticks around, subscribes to your blog, downloads a variety of ebooks, and even attends a webinar, she is likely in the middle stages of your funnel. She has shown a real interest in your company and is ready to receive more targeted messaging and offers that tie in nicely with what your company can offer.
For example, consider a company that sells budgeting software to the enterprise. Maybe your early-stage offers discuss budgeting best practices, common budgeting pitfalls, how to optimize your budget, and so on. Then after a lead has shown interest, she is ready to receive offers that talk specifically about budgeting software. Notice how a buyer is moving from broad to specific interest in your product or service.
Late-stage buyers
Late-stage buyers are generally in the opportunity category and are getting pretty hyped up on your company's goods. They have successfully made it through your early-stage offers, have gone through the mid-stage gauntlet, and are now downloading very product-centric information such as pricing sheets, customer testimonial videos, and datasheets. Your early- and mid-stage offers have set the stage, and your leads now have a good understanding of how your product or service can cure their pain. Late-stage is a good time to be engaged with a sales person, as late-stage buyers are clear hand-raisers and have shown a solid interest in your company.


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In conjunction with Ojos De Perro, the makers of the film, an international screening on Mon 26th September of the Mexican documentary "Watching Them Die: The Mexican Army and The Disappeared 43" will be happening at Jura.
It's about the killing and disappearance of 43 students in Ayotzinapa Guerrero (and other thousands of Mexicans through the years) by the Mexican army.
The government has protected the culprits and masked the truth, the journalists are trying to spread their independent work in Mexico and the world.
Doors open at 6:30pm with the screening to start at 7:00pm.
The Burma Revolutionary Student Collective from Yangon are on a mission to build a solidarity network with fellow anarchist in Australia.
They will be discussing what they have been doing as a collective since their inception in 2014 during the Democratic Education Movement in Burma.
They are a radical leftist student platform organised by students at the University of Yangon with the aim to create a radical leftist student platform.
Even though they are still a young organisation they have been involved in study clubs, free education center, actions in the Democractice Education Movement, and anti-fascist actions.
This is a rare opportunity to meet with and hear first hand accounts from anarchist in Burma, and to support their mission to create a solidarity network.
They will be accepting donations of all sorts to help set-up their Info Shop and Bar.
Look forward to seeing y'all there.
This short work outlines the current state of society, the structure of that state, and the dialectic of hierarchy and anti-hierarchy and the conclusion of said dialectic.
When you look at society today, what do you see? You see workers and business owners, citizens and policepeople, policepeople and commanders, citizens and government, soldiers and officers, agents and agencies, renters and property owners, users and intellectual property owners, and so on. How did these relationships materialise? Quite simply, "primitive communism" led to warring tribes, with territories expanding, and stronger members of tribes oppressing others. Following the invention of farming and stronger weaponry, these tribes had a revolution, with the creation of the hierarchy of feudalism. The king ruled supreme, with the knights and lords and peasants all in hierarchical subordination. After a while, the bourgeoisie toppled the feudal hierarchies of the world creating their own hierarchy - haute bourgeoisie, state, petty bourgeoisie, proletarian. This bourgeois hierarchy has been in effect for roughly 200 years and continues in this class subordination.
The Man Who Killed Durruti, by Pedro de Paz
Why worry about an man who died in November 1936, or about the man who killed him? Perhaps the more important question is 'who is Durruti and why be concerned about him?'. In this intriguing book both of the questions are addressed in two parts. The first is an investigative historical novel about the death of Buenaventura Durruti, in the form of a detective novel that leads to a conclusion about his killer. This section of the book won the 2003 Spanish Jose Saramago International Short Novel Award. The second part is a more straight historical account of Durruti, his actions and ideas, during the Spanish Revolution, and is by Stuart Christie. This second part covers more about Durruti as a person, a militant anarchist worker, an anarchist militia leader, and, overall, a partisan of the Spanish people with an internationalist vision. His death was a turning point in the Spanish Revolution and one of the events that lead to the defeat of the revolution. Half a million people turned out for his funeral in Barcelona, a tribute to the place he held in people's hearts.
The Anthropology of Utiopia: Essays on Social Ecology and Community Development, by Dan Chodorkoff
This is an interesting book which is a collection of essays that have been printed in various places over the years. What brings them together is a series of important themes: an exposition of the work and ideas of Murray Bookchin, examples of how some of Bookchin's ideas have already (and can be now and in the future) be put into practice, the importance of action to (re-) build community as part of the long term revolutionary project and a defense of Bookchin against the poorly thought-out ideological assaults of his post-modern/'post-anarchist' attackers. All this is wrapped in a major theme of looking at ourselves anthropologically. The parts that I liked the most were about Chodorkoff's and a participant and activist in the Lower East Side of New York, in helping to build community among poor Puerto Ricans in what was then a desolate part of New York. Also, how an academic can support and be a part of change, although admittedly he did this when in the Institute for Social Ecology - a radical/anarchist institute if ever there was one. So many lessons to learn, both positive and challenging, that I've got notes scribbled all over the copy that I read. Well worth getting into.
Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present, Edited by Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini
This book is so inspiring and so annoying in so many ways! The various authors come from widely different backgrounds in terms of work, geographic and cultural location, and ideology. The best aspect is that many examples of attempts at workers' control are covered, from all over the world, although with a less than needed entries from non-European (and its offshoots) areas. So it's a rollikin' read going from workers' revolt to insurrectionary event to factory takeover, and is enjoyable if you don't look too closely into the ideological limitations and biases of many of the authors. So many are just stuck in the nonsense of marxist apologia, here is one example from a look at Russia, 1917-1920: "Some anarchist called for the takeover of factories, but a Bolshevik delegate replied: "control is not yet socialism, nor even taking of production into our hands....Having taken power into our hands, we should direct capitalism along a path such that it will outlive itself..." But no where, in this chapter, in a book about Workers' Control, is there the obvious critique of this marxist nonsense: if marxism is about 'directing capitalism' then it is not revolutionary, and certainly not about workers' control. One look at Simon Pirani's book The Russian Revolution in Retreat, 1920-1924: Soviet Workers and the new Communist Elite, should dispel the illusions that some of these authors have. So, if a reader can keep the rose coloured glasses off, and look critically at its limitations, then the book is a good read.
The Death Ship, by B. Traven
Traven, not his real name (which was possibly Ret Marut) was a mystery man who shunned fame and notoriety. He always insisted that his work should stand alone and be judged for what it was worth. This novel, his first after escape from his activities during the post WW1 Bavarian German Revolution of 1919, was probably a part biography of his experiences in the deep and dark holds of cargo ships. While the story itself is a great read, like all his other novels, the politics underlying the narrative is not hidden, but not always explicit. He attacked rampant authoritarianism in the form of the state, the boss, the military, religion, and any other of its manifestations that came across his path, or the paths that developed in his stories. Having read it 30 years ago and again recently, I thoroughly enjoyed his writing style and the pace of the action, while giving cause and pause for thinking of the meanings within. An easy read, but a provocative and stimulating one. Am now looking forward to re-reading The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was made into a great film with Humphrey Bogart.
The electoral commission's been sending me letters for a while now, demanding I pay a $160 fine for not voting. They've cancelled my driver's licence and sicced their debt collectors Dun & Bradstreet onto me, threatened to steal money from my bank account, or steal my belongings and sell them to pay their debt. Still I haven't given in to this criminal gang, these terrorists known as 'the government.'
I've lost count of how many letters I've received, threatening me, trying to intimidate me, but I've ignored them all, as I've done for more than 20 years. I stopped voting in the early '90s after I realised that it's pointless. How will they actually get the money out of me?
It seems the State's repressive apparatus isn't really all that efficient. If they steal the money from my bank account I won't be able to stop them. But my friend said they'll have to get a court order to do that.
They keep reminding us that voting's compulsory. A lot of people say they vote, or at least get their name ticked off at the polling booth so that they don't get fined. But how well do they actually enforce this law?
Past generations fought for the right to vote. But not for the State's right to compel us to vote! Voting was made compulsory in Australia in 1924 because of falling voter turnouts. That's nearly a century ago now. Logically the right to vote implies the right not to vote. So it's no longer a right but a duty.
I suspect there are thousands upon thousands of people in Australia who don't vote, many of whom aren't even on the electoral roll, even though both these things are compulsory. The number's probably rising too, as more and more get pissed off with the system.
The media tries to whip up enthusiasm for the election by broadcasting the words of politicians. They try to make it seem exciting. Your vote counts! Isn't democracy wonderful? Anything could happen on the day! The most important election since World War II! (Did they say that one again this time?) We have so much freedom! Aren't we grateful to our masters for giving us the right to vote?
We all know that the promises and words of politicians are worthless. Because unless we're rich enough to give them big donations, we can't hold them accountable. Before the election they pretend to be interested in community issues, but afterwards they don't want to know you.
Some say to get off the electoral roll. But how do you do that? I've moved 3 or 4 times but they always manage to track me down. Others say to tell them you have a religious objection to voting. But why should I lie? I haven't done anything wrong.
Each time I voted I felt like a mug after. For getting sucked in to the bullshit. "Come on, you've got to support our friend so-and-so! She's standing for the Greens and you know they do a lot of good work! They're not anarchist but it's a step in the right direction!" Yeah right. Candidates I voted for didn't win, and even if they had, they wouldn't have been able to achieve anything worthwhile.
Recently the Australian Electoral Commission sent me a warning letter, saying that I may be prosecuted if I don't vote in the 2 July election, and fined up to $180. Well, again I didn't vote in your election on Saturday, 2 July, so suck shit, you pathetic authoritarian bastards!
I went past Petersham TAFE college on the way to the Jura monthly collective meeting and there seemed to be a polling booth there. I was accosted outside on the footpath by party workers trying to give me their how-to-vote cards. I declined them all and asked whether there was a sausage sizzle. (I'm a vegetarian most of the time but when it comes to sausage sizzles I'm afraid I can't help myself!) Some polling booths have sausage sizzles but, no, this one apparently didn't.
Seems a polling booth up the road had one. Too bad! Nope, they missed their chance at seducing me with a sausage sizzle. Glad I didn't get sucked into supporting the stupid system of selecting slavedrivers.
I look forward to a new series of intimidating letters from the AEC.
Wages So Low You'll Freak, by Mike Pudd'nhead
Book Review by Chris
I gave this book to a friend as a late Christmas present. "Just read the first chapter," I said, "then see if you can stop." By 3am the next day he'd read the whole thing cover to cover in one marathon all-night session.
Wages So Low You'll Freak deserves to be a small classic. It's one of the best books I've read in ages. It covers radical politics and workplace organising in a way that's honest, often extremely funny, and is totally relatable for young, early 21st century workers bouncing from one precarious, poorly paid job to the next.
The book is a sprawling, four-year-long, first-person narrative of Mike Wilklow's attempts to organise a union at Jimmy John's – a chain sandwich store with about 1,000 outlets throughout the US. At 22, fresh out of college and a recent signup to the Industrial Workers of the World, Wilklow joins his best friend in getting a minimum wage job at Jimmy John's and sets to work.
Unlike most conventional unions, the Industrial Workers of the World preaches an ethic of "solidarity unionism." Rather than aiming exclusively for formal membership and legal bargaining rights, the IWW emphasises collective direct action on the shop floor to build workers' confidence and win small, concrete improvements, followed by progressively larger actions over more ambitious goals.
Thus within a few months, despite representing only a miniscule fraction of the workforce, Wilklow and his co-workers are already taking action. When someone is arbitrarily fired for phoning in sick, dozens of IWW members call up the store to complain, jamming its phone lines and causing chaos while a handful of workers confront the boss together. When a new store manager takes over and begins sexually harassing staff, workers start a petition and get him fired. And when a supervisor in one shop punches out a union supporter for cutting a sandwich diagonally rather than straight across, every single person in the store stops work and gets that supervisor fired as well. Between 2007-2010, the battle on the shop floor rages back and forth until each of the ten Jimmy John's stores in Minneapolis – where Wilklow is living and working – have a large number of union supporters in them ready to publicly declare their IWW membership and take on the company on a much larger scale.
There's so much that I liked about Wages So Low You'll Freak. For one thing, it's just a great story. While the emphasis is on Wilklow's attempts to organise a union, it also reads as something of an autobiography of four years of his life, bouncing around between demeaning minimum wage work, basement punk gigs, hook-ups, breakups, protests, parties, binge drinking, gambling and bike culture. The writing is really sharp and accessible, and the book is consistently entertaining and funny.Wilklow is also pretty honest about himself and his own flaws. The book opens with a bizarre piece called "Why Happiness?" which he wrote as a 23-year-old, and each chapter includes a short entry from the diary he kept during the campaign. He also does a good job of depicting himself as an inexperienced, often immature early-twentysomething: he stuffs up repeatedly, says the wrong things, does the wrong things, can't hold relationships together, is stubborn, talks too much, and is constantly hung over. But he has no trouble admitting all of this and is relentlessly self-deprecating.
Probably the most valuable thing about this book, though, is that it's one of the only accounts of a union organising campaign that I know of which has been written not by an academic or a labour scholar or a paid union organiser, but by an actual participant who was there every day on the shopfloor. Union membership in Australia has plummeted from 56% of the workforce in the mid-1970s to less than 15% today, and the experience and cultural memory of rank-and-file workplace organisation has been almost totally lost. For that reason alone, Wages So Low You'll Freak is incredibly useful and important: you can learn a lot about how to organise your own workplace just from reading it, not mention gain a lot of confidence about what it's possible to achieve. In this light, the book's setting in the unorganised, minimum wage service industry is pretty perfect, and the author solidly emphasises workplace organising that is under the control of workers themselves, without the interference of paid union organisers or bureaucrats.
For all these reasons I think Wages So Low You'll Freak is a really enjoyable and valuable read. You can order it online from Microcosm Press and copies are also sold here at Jura Books in Sydney.
I did work for the dole at various places around Darwin a few years back: Vinnies, Larrakia Nation office (the Larrakia are the traditional owners of the Darwin area), and at the Aviation Heritage Centre. I had arranged to work at some other place I can't remember the name of (I think it was a housing co-op) but that fell through. I was angry about being made to do slave labour. I wanted to protest and resist it but I was on a good behaviour bond with a suspended jail sentence for political activity hanging over me at the time. I was luckier than other people, even though I certainly didn't feel lucky! I only ever had to do 1 day a week. Others were made to do more: 2 days, or maybe even 4! They sure seemed to come down harder on the young, and on those who complained about having to do it. At Vinnies I knew the person in charge from activist circles I'd worked in. Gave us breakfast with the long grassers (homeless people). This person was pretty cool and had us painting a pergola. I think she let us go home early and ticked off our names as if we'd worked the whole day.
Larrakia Nation was pretty slack. Once we mowed the grass in the bushtucker garden at the back of Royal Darwin Hospital. Another time wewere clearing infestations of the mimosa pigra weed along the banks of Rapid Creek near the university. I pretended I didn't know how to use the whippersnipper or brushcutter or whatever it was so I ended up just collecting the pieces the other guys cut down. As Larrakia rangers they were getting paid something like a proper wage, I believe. CDEP (Community Development Employment Program) pay plus top up.
I remember doing a bit of work in the garden at the Larrakia Nation office on a couple of days, and shovelling up dirt in the car park at the back another day. But a lot of the time we didn't have to work there as it was badly organised. We'd sit around talking for hours, waiting for someone in authority to tell us to do something. Those in charge never knew how many people who were supposed to be there for WftD would actually turn up. There might be 18 names on the list, but 6 or 7 would turn up. Or maybe 1 or none. A few times I showed up there to find I was the only one. Some guy told me, "You always turn up. But no-one else is here. So I'll just tick your name off and you can go." The Aviation Heritage Centre was a museum featuring a B-52 bomber from the USA, surrounded by many smaller aircraft and artifacts going back to WWII and earlier. I used to enjoy reading the info and learning history while dusting and polishing the planes and things and sweeping the floor.
There were also 2 Aboriginal women and a tall Sudanese man doing WftD there. The woman from WA said the WftD was demeaning. There was nothing much we could do about it though.
One day I wore an old t-shirt a friend had given me. He'd sprayed ANARCHY NOW on the back in red. I thought the writing had faded and was hardly visible any more. Unfortunately it was visible and the boss noticed it even though he couldn't make out what it said. He marched up to me and said, "You're not working inside with that on your shirt! What's it say? Wanker? Go outside and sweep the leaves out of the big carpark out the front!" (I thought, "There's only one wanker around here, mate, and it's not me!") But I didn't say that. I said, "I'm not going back outside unless I get some sunscreen to put on. (Because I'd got a bit sunburnt working out there before.) Boss man storms off in a huff.
One time he made me stay back late and help lift a heavy bbq into a dumpster. I hurt my back doing that. The following week I forked out $27 to see a doctor who thought I was faking back pain. (Good luck getting bulk billing in Darwin! They made you feel like a criminal just for asking.) Just so I didn't have to do slavery that week. I hated it. Had to do it another week instead.
That boss was a prick. He'd sit upstairs bludging in his air-conditioned office while the rest of us, paid staff and slaves alike, soldiered on in the heat and humidity. Once during a break he bragged to us how he'd bought a car, an old bomb, in Darwin for a few hundred bucks, and had it shipped over to East Timor where he sold it to a Timorese guy for $3000.
After I left I heard from my friend who still worked there in the shop and doing the guided tours, that they caught that boss with his hand in the till. The board sacked him but didn't press charges. I think I had to do WftD for 6 months, 1 day a week. Centrelink bureaucrats surprised me at one stage. They told me I didn't have to do any more of it. I thought they were mistaken but I didn't argue! Later they discovered their mistake and I had to go and work the remaining couple of days.
All in all it was a shitty experience being a slave. I'd always thought that if I were ever told to do Work for the Dole I'd refuse, find a way out of it somehow. But when it happened I couldn't get out of it. Not that I had the worst of it. Plenty of people copped it a lot worse than me. Aboriginal people particularly.
I heard of people in remote communities like Kalkaringi being made to do 30 hours a week work for the dole and on top of that getting punished with income management as well. If they refused this slavery they'd get no money. The government wouldn't dare try that on in a place like Sydney. They seem to use the NT as a sort of social laboratory and Aboriginal people as guinea pigs, to see how much abuse of people's human rights they can get away with.
In conclusion I can sum up my limited experience by saying that Work for the Dole is really about more than work. It's about power and control. It's rich bastard governments punishing people who are unemployed. It's class warfare, and race warfare. If people are doing that work they're not unemployed and should at least be paid award wages like anyone else. Anything less is bullshit.
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What does 📘 mean?
The blue book emoji ain't extra, that's for sure: It's just a blue book, and people use it in all sorts of contexts related to reading and academics.
Sometimes it specifically references blue books used for written exams in school, other times the Kelley Blue book vehicle value guide. How exciting.
Related words:
- 📚 books emoji
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Where does come from?
The blue book emoji was approved in 2010 under Unicode 6.0 and joins a number of other book and notebook-themed emoji, including the red, green, orange, and stack of books emoji.
It looks pretty uniform across platforms, though here's a little emoji Easter egg for you: Apple's blue book emoji displays "Vol. 3 by John Appleseed" in tiny script on its cover. The Johnny Appleseed allusion puns on the company name, Apple. The red, green, and orange books are Vols. 1, 2, and 4 by the prolific Mr. Appleseed, respectively.
The different book emoji are most used interchangeably by readers, writers, and scholars, with people maybe favoring one color over the other out of personal preference—if not just stringing all the colors together—or to coordinate with whatever content they are writing about.
The blue book emoji does stand out, though, because of some preexisting meanings of blue book in English.
The first is the blue book exam. You know, the ones that you always scrambled to buy at the campus bookstore on exam day because you forgot to get one ahead of time in spite of a billion reminders from your prof on Blackboard? In US high schools and colleges, these blue books are used for in-class tests and examinations requiring handwritten short-answer or essay responses.
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Another fun fact: Thank Butler University for those blue books. They started using them in the 1920s, coloring them blue in line with their school colors.
Next is the Kelley Blue Book, an authoritative value guide for new and used cars in the US going back to the 1920s. (The 1920s really had a thing for blue-colored books, huh?)
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Finally—and we include this only because we know you come to Dictionary.com for complete and utter thoroughness—an older and less common blue book is a registry of important persons, often government officials. The blue book emoji sees some very occasional use this way.
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The blue book emoji appears most often on social media. It is also used to enhance titles on YouTube or other social-platform headlines related to books, reading, and academics.
As with any emoji, the blue book emoji can appear on its own or with a host of others, often with other colored book emoji to add a visual pop. The emoji is usually placed at the end of a sentence, unless it substitutes the word book.
One of the leading uses of the blue book emoji is to talk about books and reading, especially a love of them and when the actual book someone is reading is blue.
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And, World Book Day on April 23rd sees many uses of the blue book emoji to celebrate all things reading.
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Shelfies, like a selfie but of someone's bookshelf, are often posted on social media with the blue book emoji.
Forget selfies. Send me your shelfies!
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Outside of blue book exams, the emoji can mark academics and learning more generally.
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Occasionally and in line with its Kelley Blue Book uses, people use the blue book emoji when discussing sales, prices, and "a good deal," such as this posting on Depop: 📘DISTRESSED DRESS📘vintage #50s📘"Parkland of Dallas" 📘over-dyed cotton with wax resist polka dots📘rhinestones on bodice📘some fraying and discoloration due to age 📘flat measurements〰chest:17″/waist:14″/hips:free👛$20+shipping💋
On Instagram, some people tag the blue book emoji ( #📘) in pictures of their bookshelves or themselves reading, often coordinated with decor, clothing, or other objects that are blue or look good with blue.