Weather you’re monogamous or not, super-experienced or just heard about polyamory/non-monogamy, communication can be one of the biggest issues in a relationship, so let’s talk about how we talk (or, too often, don’t talk enough). I’ll be presenting some communication approaches and tools, as well as how to develop better communication skills. I would like to focus on how we communicate especially in very intense emotional times, and some of the most common pitfalls that occur there.
This is a facilitated discussion, not a presentation, so you are kindly invited to participate and share as much or as little as you’d like from your experience. Just listening is also ok. Because the topic is so personal, I highly encourage a policy of what is shared in this event stays in the event.
Discussion will be in English, with consideration for non-native English speakers.
Facilitator has no formal training in related fields, just personal experience and determination to develop more ethical and sustainable ways of relating.
Fyrsti leshringur ársins haldinn af Andspyrnu, bókasafni anarkista. Textar eru á ensku, umræður munu einnig fara fram á ensku. Hægt verður að fá aðstoð við þýðingu.
Bring your drum or whatever makes nice sound. Everyone is invited, feel free to pop by and drum along.
On Accessibility:
The event is open for everyone but not so accessible to people in wheelchairs.
“There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). There is no bathroom on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.”
-https://andrymi.org/accessibility/
Andspyrna’s reading circle will be held for the second time Sunday third of february. In our last session we read a marxist feminist text by Selma Jones and Mariarosa Dalla Costa. We decided that for now the topic of our reading circle is the concept and reality of work, since it is one of the concepts that governs our everyday life and has a multitude of meanings. In later sessions we will explore the anarchist notion of the destruction of work and take a further look into a feminist analyses of work and capitalism.
In this upcoming session, however, we want to get a bit more familiar to Marx’s thought and are thus reading the introduction and first chapter of “How to read Marx?” by Peter Osborne.
Theme of the reading circles is the concept and reality of work.
Does work bind us or liberate us? What do we mean when we talk about work? How has capitalism affected our perception of work? What does government say about work? Can we destroy work? What would that even mean?
Að heyja stéttastríð með vinnu: hvernig tengist heimssamband verkafólks öðrum stéttarfélögum á Íslandi?
Ísland getur stært sig af um 80 prósent þátttöku vinnandi fólks í stéttarfélögum og hér má finna vel skipulagða fylkingu stéttarfélaga sem urðu til í baráttu verkafólks fyrir réttindum sínum. Engu að síður hefur kraftur stéttafélaga smám saman dalað þangað til um þessar mundir.
Stétt stjórnsýslufólks stjórnar öllum eða flestum hliðum daglegs reksturs félagana. Þótt sumir innan stjórnsýslunnar hafi byrjað sinn vinnuferil „á plani” og komist til metorða innan verkalýðsbaráttunar á grundvelli virkrar þátttöku þá er stjórnsýslan að mestu í litlum tengslum við það fólk sem hún stendur fyrir. Þar af leiðandi er minni áhætta tekin í kjaraviðræðum og málamiðlanir gerðar við atvinnurekendur á kostnað verkafólks. Til þess að bæta gráu ofan á svart er leitast við að takmarka átök á vinnumarkaði með hinu mikla regluverki um vinnutengsl sem finna má á Íslandi.
Vinnustefna stéttarfélaganna á Íslandi einkennist af hinu svokallað „le partage du gateau” lögmáli sem merkir að deila kökunni með atvinnurekendum. Þótt félögin veiti þjónustu í krafti verkafólks og skapi einhvers konar átakarými til þess að berjast fyrir bættum kjörum og betri vinnuaðstöðu, þá koma þau einnig að mörgu leyti í vega fyrir að stéttaátök megi eiga sér stað.
Hvernig ætti heimssamband verkafólks að tengjast hinum fastmótuðu stéttarfélögum í ljósi þessa, og þá einkum nú þegar félögin reyna að endurnýja sig?
Aðgengi: Húsið er því miður ekki vel aðgengilegt fyrir hjólastóla í augnablikinu.
Það er eitt þrep við hliðið að garðinum og svo fimm þrep sem leiða upp að aðalinngangi. Hvert þrep er 17sm hátt. Breidd dyra í húsinu er á milli 50sm (dyr að baðherberginu á efri hæð) og 80sm (aðaldyrnar). Dyrnar að fundarherberginu eru 75sm á breidd eins og flestar aðrar dyr í húsinu.
Baðherbergin eru einungis á efri hæð og í kjallara eins og er. Bæði baðherbergin eru kynlaus.
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Waging class war within labour: how does the industrial workers of the world union relate to other unions in Iceland?
Iceland boast a formal unionization rate of about 80%, with a tightly structured array of unions that were born within the working class for its defence. Despite their rich history, these unions have now become largely complacent.
Today a bureaucratic class within these unions handles all or most aspects of the day to day functioning. While these bureaucrats have often worked on the shop floor, and rose within the labour movement through active participation, their total removal from members affected by their decisions often leads to a lack of risk taking, and a lot of compromise with the bosses at the expense of the workers. Worse yet, Iceland has a highly regulated labour relations system which seeks to restrict conflict to the labour court.
The operating philosophy of Iceland’s unions can be characterized by the principle of “le partage du gateau” or the sharing of the cake with the boss. While they do offer services that represent workers and space to fight for better gains and protection in the workplace, they actively stifle the development of class antagonisms.
In this context, how should the Industrial Workers of the World related to the long-established unions, especially now in their struggle for renewal and rejuvenation?
Accessibility: The building is currently not wheelchair accessible, unfortunately.
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door), and the washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building).
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.
Theme of the reading circles is the concept and reality of work.
Does work bind us or liberate us? What do we mean when we talk about work? How has capitalism affected our perception of work? What does government say about work? Can we destroy work? What would that even mean?
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Weather you’re monogamous or not, super-experienced or just heard about polyamory/non-monogamy, communication can be one of the biggest issues in a relationship, so let’s talk about how we talk (or, too often, don’t talk enough). I’ll be presenting some communication approaches and tools, as well as how to develop better communication skills. I would like to focus on how we communicate especially in very intense emotional times, and some of the most common pitfalls that occur there.
This is a facilitated discussion, not a presentation, so you are kindly invited to participate and share as much or as little as you’d like from your experience. Just listening is also ok. Because the topic is so personal, I highly encourage a policy of what is shared in this event stays in the event.
Discussion will be in English, with consideration for non-native English speakers.
Facilitator has no formal training in related fields, just personal experience and determination to develop more ethical and sustainable ways of relating.
First reading circle of the year, hosted by Andspyrna, the anarchist library.
Texts:
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Fyrsti leshringur ársins haldinn af Andspyrnu, bókasafni anarkista. Textar eru á ensku, umræður munu einnig fara fram á ensku. Hægt verður að fá aðstoð við þýðingu.
Bring your drum or whatever makes nice sound. Everyone is invited, feel free to pop by and drum along.
On Accessibility:
The event is open for everyone but not so accessible to people in wheelchairs.
“There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door).
The bathrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building). There is no bathroom on the ground floor.
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.”
-https://andrymi.org/accessibility/
Andspyrna’s reading circle will be held for the second time Sunday third of february. In our last session we read a marxist feminist text by Selma Jones and Mariarosa Dalla Costa. We decided that for now the topic of our reading circle is the concept and reality of work, since it is one of the concepts that governs our everyday life and has a multitude of meanings. In later sessions we will explore the anarchist notion of the destruction of work and take a further look into a feminist analyses of work and capitalism.
In this upcoming session, however, we want to get a bit more familiar to Marx’s thought and are thus reading the introduction and first chapter of “How to read Marx?” by Peter Osborne.
Text source:
How to read Marx
Feel free to read further.
Discussions will be in English.
Closed meeting in the comfy room
Theme of the reading circles is the concept and reality of work.
Does work bind us or liberate us? What do we mean when we talk about work? How has capitalism affected our perception of work? What does government say about work? Can we destroy work? What would that even mean?
For 1st March we’ll read the article : Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women by Sara R. Farris
Reading material from earlier sessions are listed below:
Að heyja stéttastríð með vinnu: hvernig tengist heimssamband verkafólks öðrum stéttarfélögum á Íslandi?
Ísland getur stært sig af um 80 prósent þátttöku vinnandi fólks í stéttarfélögum og hér má finna vel skipulagða fylkingu stéttarfélaga sem urðu til í baráttu verkafólks fyrir réttindum sínum. Engu að síður hefur kraftur stéttafélaga smám saman dalað þangað til um þessar mundir.
Stétt stjórnsýslufólks stjórnar öllum eða flestum hliðum daglegs reksturs félagana. Þótt sumir innan stjórnsýslunnar hafi byrjað sinn vinnuferil „á plani” og komist til metorða innan verkalýðsbaráttunar á grundvelli virkrar þátttöku þá er stjórnsýslan að mestu í litlum tengslum við það fólk sem hún stendur fyrir. Þar af leiðandi er minni áhætta tekin í kjaraviðræðum og málamiðlanir gerðar við atvinnurekendur á kostnað verkafólks. Til þess að bæta gráu ofan á svart er leitast við að takmarka átök á vinnumarkaði með hinu mikla regluverki um vinnutengsl sem finna má á Íslandi.
Vinnustefna stéttarfélaganna á Íslandi einkennist af hinu svokallað „le partage du gateau” lögmáli sem merkir að deila kökunni með atvinnurekendum. Þótt félögin veiti þjónustu í krafti verkafólks og skapi einhvers konar átakarými til þess að berjast fyrir bættum kjörum og betri vinnuaðstöðu, þá koma þau einnig að mörgu leyti í vega fyrir að stéttaátök megi eiga sér stað.
Hvernig ætti heimssamband verkafólks að tengjast hinum fastmótuðu stéttarfélögum í ljósi þessa, og þá einkum nú þegar félögin reyna að endurnýja sig?
Aðgengi:
Húsið er því miður ekki vel aðgengilegt fyrir hjólastóla í augnablikinu.
Það er eitt þrep við hliðið að garðinum og svo fimm þrep sem leiða upp að aðalinngangi. Hvert þrep er 17sm hátt. Breidd dyra í húsinu er á milli 50sm (dyr að baðherberginu á efri hæð) og 80sm (aðaldyrnar). Dyrnar að fundarherberginu eru 75sm á breidd eins og flestar aðrar dyr í húsinu.
Baðherbergin eru einungis á efri hæð og í kjallara eins og er. Bæði baðherbergin eru kynlaus.
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Waging class war within labour: how does the industrial workers of the world union relate to other unions in Iceland?
Iceland boast a formal unionization rate of about 80%, with a tightly structured array of unions that were born within the working class for its defence. Despite their rich history, these unions have now become largely complacent.
Today a bureaucratic class within these unions handles all or most aspects of the day to day functioning. While these bureaucrats have often worked on the shop floor, and rose within the labour movement through active participation, their total removal from members affected by their decisions often leads to a lack of risk taking, and a lot of compromise with the bosses at the expense of the workers. Worse yet, Iceland has a highly regulated labour relations system which seeks to restrict conflict to the labour court.
The operating philosophy of Iceland’s unions can be characterized by the principle of “le partage du gateau” or the sharing of the cake with the boss. While they do offer services that represent workers and space to fight for better gains and protection in the workplace, they actively stifle the development of class antagonisms.
In this context, how should the Industrial Workers of the World related to the long-established unions, especially now in their struggle for renewal and rejuvenation?
Accessibility:
The building is currently not wheelchair accessible, unfortunately.
There is a step before the garden gate and then 5 steps leading to the main entrance, each 17 cm high, door widths in the building vary between 50 cm (upstairs washroom door) and 80 cm (entrance door), and the washrooms are so far only on the upper floor and in the basement. The door to the meeting room is 75 cm wide (as most other doors in the building).
Both washrooms in the building are gender neutral.
Theme of the reading circles is the concept and reality of work.
Does work bind us or liberate us? What do we mean when we talk about work? How has capitalism affected our perception of work? What does government say about work? Can we destroy work? What would that even mean?
For 1st March we’ll read the article : Femonationalism and the “Regular” Army of Labor Called Migrant Women by Sara R. Farris
Reading material from earlier sessions are listed below:
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