11 October 2006
Searchlight
Copy of Searchlight mag for October can be put in the post if you want it. Major feature on racism in Northern Ireland in this month's issue.
04 October 2006
Annual Meeting - October 18
I have booked a room in the Stanmer room at the Brighthelm Centre in central Brighton for our annual meeting on Wednesday October 18, which starts at 7.30pm.
More details and agenda will be posted here and sent out in the next week. If you have anything you want to be discussed at the meeting, get in touch, we can put it on the agenda.
This meeting is very important to the future of the branch. It looks like we WILL continue for another year as people have come forward to help fill positions that need filling. Thanks very much for interest shown so far.
But if you can make it, please do. We will be discussing such things as motions for next year's delegate meeting of the NUJ. And where to hold the Christmas party!
After the meeting we will adjourn to one of the pubs across the road for a few drinks (paid for by the branch!).
More details and agenda will be posted here and sent out in the next week. If you have anything you want to be discussed at the meeting, get in touch, we can put it on the agenda.
This meeting is very important to the future of the branch. It looks like we WILL continue for another year as people have come forward to help fill positions that need filling. Thanks very much for interest shown so far.
But if you can make it, please do. We will be discussing such things as motions for next year's delegate meeting of the NUJ. And where to hold the Christmas party!
After the meeting we will adjourn to one of the pubs across the road for a few drinks (paid for by the branch!).
29 September 2006
Free Press
Copies of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom's mag - Free Press - can be put in the post if you want one.
July/August edition features Tony Benn on whistleblowers and items on the Official Secrets Act and the government's proposed changes to the Freedom of Information Act.
July/August edition features Tony Benn on whistleblowers and items on the Official Secrets Act and the government's proposed changes to the Freedom of Information Act.
28 September 2006
NUJ lawyers' emergency number
Your legal rights guidance, if you're nicked by the police or if they ask to interview you - Call Thompsons emergency 24-hour number is 0800 587 7530.
27 September 2006
Annual Delegate Meeting motions
Next year's ADM is in Birmingham's Holiday Inn from April 12-15.
If you want the branch to put forward a motion to be debated by the meeting then this is your chance. The deadline for us to submit motions is November 24. That means we have this month's meeting, and next month's, to come up with something.
If you have anything in mind, please write it down and bring a copy to the October meeting so we can debate it. In the past a couple of our ideas were thrown out because they were ambiguous, so the simpler and more concise the better.
The ADM preliminary agenda is out just before Christmas. We can then submit amendments to motions, if we want. The final agenda will be out on March 5.
If you want the branch to put forward a motion to be debated by the meeting then this is your chance. The deadline for us to submit motions is November 24. That means we have this month's meeting, and next month's, to come up with something.
If you have anything in mind, please write it down and bring a copy to the October meeting so we can debate it. In the past a couple of our ideas were thrown out because they were ambiguous, so the simpler and more concise the better.
The ADM preliminary agenda is out just before Christmas. We can then submit amendments to motions, if we want. The final agenda will be out on March 5.
26 September 2006
Searchlight
September edition of anti-fascist mag available. Email nujbrighton@gmail.com with your address and I can put it in the post.
Feature on halting the rise of the BNP. A supplement commemorates the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of Cable Street.
Feature on halting the rise of the BNP. A supplement commemorates the Spanish Civil War and the Battle of Cable Street.
25 August 2006
Message from Jemima: I'm off!
The end is nigh! Well for Jemima anyway.
I've become very fond of our smashing little Brighton branch since I joined three years ago, but I'm finally moving to London this autumn so I'll be leaving the role of chair. I'm sure you all know this, but the branch has been almost entirely dependent on the hard work and dedication of Adrian Colley, our very diligent branch secretary, without whom there would be no Brighton branch.
As it is, we've got a record number of branch members, a very respectable diary of meetings, speakers and parties over the past four years - and now a great opportunity for some fresh blood to take over from both myself and Adrian.
We really want the branch to keep going because the work of the NUJ is more relevant than ever. But it can't happen without your help - the branch can't run by itself! Even if you just fancy posting a few pieces on the branch blog each month, that would be a great help - http://www.nujbrighton.org.uk , just in case you missed it the first 300 times.
I'll still be chair of the NUJ's new media council; we're working hard to try and recruit in an area that is becoming more and more central to all our jobs and there are hundreds of complex issues to unravel; not least the challenges of citizen journalism, web copyright, the demands of increasingly multi-skilled roles. That will all keep me out of trouble.
Work-wise I'm freelance now, still writing about digital publishing and the media industry - mainly for http://www.paidcontent.org if that's of any interest!
My own site is at http://www.jemimakiss.com and you can always email me at jemima@jemimakiss.com if you need my help, and if no-one else can help. And if you can find me. (Or was that the A-team? I forget).
Thanks, anyway, for the fun and support over the past >three years and very best of luck to all Brighton members, both at work and at leisure. And please invite me to the Christmas party.
Jemima
I've become very fond of our smashing little Brighton branch since I joined three years ago, but I'm finally moving to London this autumn so I'll be leaving the role of chair. I'm sure you all know this, but the branch has been almost entirely dependent on the hard work and dedication of Adrian Colley, our very diligent branch secretary, without whom there would be no Brighton branch.
As it is, we've got a record number of branch members, a very respectable diary of meetings, speakers and parties over the past four years - and now a great opportunity for some fresh blood to take over from both myself and Adrian.
We really want the branch to keep going because the work of the NUJ is more relevant than ever. But it can't happen without your help - the branch can't run by itself! Even if you just fancy posting a few pieces on the branch blog each month, that would be a great help - http://www.nujbrighton.org.uk , just in case you missed it the first 300 times.
I'll still be chair of the NUJ's new media council; we're working hard to try and recruit in an area that is becoming more and more central to all our jobs and there are hundreds of complex issues to unravel; not least the challenges of citizen journalism, web copyright, the demands of increasingly multi-skilled roles. That will all keep me out of trouble.
Work-wise I'm freelance now, still writing about digital publishing and the media industry - mainly for http://www.paidcontent.org if that's of any interest!
My own site is at http://www.jemimakiss.com and you can always email me at jemima@jemimakiss.com if you need my help, and if no-one else can help. And if you can find me. (Or was that the A-team? I forget).
Thanks, anyway, for the fun and support over the past >three years and very best of luck to all Brighton members, both at work and at leisure. And please invite me to the Christmas party.
Jemima
24 August 2006
No September meeting
There is no meeting in September as I shall be abroad and Jemima is not around so there is no one to do the mailout or stage the event. The annual meeting, where all posts are up for election, WILL go ahead some time in mid-October.
12 August 2006
Ex-Argus man's Iraq talk
Former Evening Argus reporter Rory McCarthy discusses life in Iraq on Tuesday.
He'll be talking about his book on the conflict Nobody Told Us We are Defeated: Stories from the new Iraq, at the Guardian Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London, from 7pm.
Tickets are a fiver and obtainable, if you rush, from reply@guardian.co.uk
He'll be talking about his book on the conflict Nobody Told Us We are Defeated: Stories from the new Iraq, at the Guardian Newsroom, 60 Farringdon Road, London, from 7pm.
Tickets are a fiver and obtainable, if you rush, from reply@guardian.co.uk
11 August 2006
Middle East ceasefire march
From Sussex Action for Peace:
TWO WEEKS AGO WELL OVER 500 PEOPLE MARCHED IN BRIGHTON AGAINSTISRAELI WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON - WE MUST KEEP UP THE PRESSURE ON THE WARMAKERS. IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE IN LEBANON NOW!
Saturday August 19, Palmeira Square Hove 1 pm. March to Brighton Pier via seafront. For more information contact 07854 188565
TWO WEEKS AGO WELL OVER 500 PEOPLE MARCHED IN BRIGHTON AGAINSTISRAELI WAR CRIMES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON - WE MUST KEEP UP THE PRESSURE ON THE WARMAKERS. IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE IN LEBANON NOW!
Saturday August 19, Palmeira Square Hove 1 pm. March to Brighton Pier via seafront. For more information contact 07854 188565
09 August 2006
August Searchlight
August copy of anti-fascist mag Searchlight available. Includes articles on England fans at World Cup in Germany - and how there's nothing to be complacent about.
31 July 2006
Next meeting
Just a reminder that there's no August meeting. Next meeting in mid-September. Date yet to be fixed. No minutes from July meeting as it was inquorate!
14 July 2006
Justice for Colombia
Issue 10 of the campaign's mag arrived in the post. If you want it get in touch. Our subscription to this has lapsed. Proposal to reaffiliate, at a cost of 50 quid, is on the agenda for next week's meeting.
13 July 2006
July meeting
This month's meeting, to be followed by participation in the pub quiz, is at the Nelson pub in Trafalgar Street, Brighton, from 7.30pm on Tuesday July 18.
12 July 2006
July searchlight
Copy of this month's Searchlight magazine has arrived, a little late. If you want it email nujbrighton"gmail.com
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