Summer Social

The branch summer social is this week. It's in the Fortune of War pub on Brighton seafront on Wednesday, August 22, starting at 6pm. Join fellow NUJ members (and those who are thinking of signing up) for a drink and a bite to eat. Networking is permitted, but you are perfectly at liberty to simply have a good time if you prefer.

 The next branch meeting will be on September 27 in the Craft Beer Company pub (22-23 Upper North Street, Brighton, East Sussex, BN1 3FG), starting at 7.30pm. At this meeting we will elect the branch officers for the coming year.

 The posts up for election are Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasurer. We also need an enthusiastic and active committee. If you'd like to take on any of these roles, or know someone else who would, send your nominations to acting branch secretary Brian Williams, using  nujbrighton@gmail.com.

Next meeting: Tuesday, 25 October, 7pm for 7.30pm start AGM at the Craft Beer Pub

Tuesday, 25 October, 7pm for 7.30pm start is confirmed for our AGM at the Craft Beer co pub, Brighton.

www.thecraftbeerco.com/brighton/

Agenda

1. Apologies
2. Secretary's Report
3. Treasurer's Report
4. Trades Council Report
5. AGM: Election of New Chairperson
6. AGM: Election of New Secretary
7. AGM: Election of any other vacant positions
8. Xmas party
9. Any Other Business

Next meeting, this Wednesday: guest speaker NUJ President Tim Dawson

Next meeting, this Wednesday: guest speaker NUJ President Tim Dawson

28 September 2016 at 7 for 7.30pm, at the Craft Beer Company, Upper North Street, Brighton
thecraftbeerco.com/pubs/brighton/

Interested in helping run the branch?

Come to our 28 September meeting to find out more.

Agenda

1. Welcome and apologies
2. Election of new members
3. Treasurer's report
4. Junior doctors
5. Kickstarter for London recruits film
6. Brighton & Worthing Coach to TUC Tory Party Conference Demo + donation
7. Christmas Party 
8. Guests for future meetings
9. AOB

All welcome!

Summer party!

Save the date

Summer Party:
Thursday 25 August at 7pm until midnight
 at the Fortune of War 157 King's Road, Brighton BN1 1NB http://www.drinkinbrighton.co.uk/fortune-of-war 

 More details will follow 

 All welcome!

Report of our last meeting in the Guardian

Umit Ozturk, speaking at the Craft Beer Co. Photo by Fred Pipes

Report by John Keenan:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2016/jul/28/turkish-journalist-tells-of-lack-of-media-ethics-after-failed-coup

Next meeting: Wednesday, 27 July at 7 for 7.30pm, Craft Beer Company - guest speaker Umit Ozturk

Next meeting: guest speaker Umit Ozturk

Wednesday, 27 July at 7 for 7.30pm, Craft Beer Company, Upper North Street, Brighton
thecraftbeerco.com/pubs/brighton/

“Turkey: The biggest prison for journalists in the world”- Can Dundar, who was released from prison recently:

Umit Ozturk will talk about the threats against freedom of press in Turkey with examples on censorship, restrictions and bans on media as well as practices of intimidation, prosecution, imprisonment and attacks against journalists and media activists.

Umit Ozturk is a qualified journalist and linguist from Turkey who has lived in the UK since 1992. He has worked as a human rights reporter, editor, broadcaster, book trader and publisher, media analyst and trainer, with expertise on freedom of press, social media and cyber rights and liberties.

He was actively involved in press freedom organisations including Amnesty International Journalists Network as their chair (1998-2010) and a co-founder and co-director of the first UK chapter of Reporters sans Frontieres (2003-2004), as a consultant for Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN (1997-2006), and a contributor to Index on Censorship (1995-2004). He was awarded several media prizes throughout 1990s.

Umit is the founder and current coordinator of the Brighton-based community support charity Euro-Mediterranean Resources Network (2001 - ). He is also a poet, community radio producer, playwright, community cook, and a stand-up performer.

As this is likely to be a popular meeting please RSVP via http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2583656

All Welcome!

Agenda 

1. Welcome and apologies
2. Election of new members
3. Treasurer's report
4. Trades Council report
5. Summer Party date and venue
6. Guests for future meetings
7. AOB

Next meeting: Wednesday 29 June at the Craft Beer Co - Guest speaker Elizabeth Ingrams

7 for 7.30 Craft Beer Co http://thecraftbeerco.com/pubs/brighton/

Elizabeth Ingrams has worked extensively in Japan including for the Japan Times, Eland Books, the Japan Literature Promotion Project. Her anthology of travel in Japan, Japan Through Writers’ Eyes, has recently been republished. In Hiroshima, Japan, the average age of the survivors of the world’s first nuclear attack, known as hibakusha, is 80 years old. In a few years’ time it is likely that none of the first-hand witnesses will be around to remember the event.

During the post-war period in Japan, when the word ‘atomic bomb’ was censored under US occupation (1945-1952), the narratives of the hibakusha were marginalized and the history of the end of World War Two was played down as part of post-war reconstruction through a kind of collective amnesia or forgetting.

The hibakusha are coming forward to tell their experiences due to an urgent desire to continue to pass on to the next generation the horror and tragedy of nuclear war and its results for humanity.

This talk by Elizabeth Ingrams will cover ways of investigating survivors' stories; approaching sensitive subjects. She will also talk about her work within the NUJ to promote and re-frame its antinuclear policy. Her work is motivated by the goal of helping change attitudes toward the end of World War Two. Her website is at https://elizabethingrams.wordpress.com

Next meeting: Wednesday 18 May 2016 at Craft Beer Co

Agenda

Wednesday, 18 May at 7pm for 7.30, Craft Beer Company, Upper North Street, Brighton
thecraftbeerco.com/pubs/brighton/

1. Welcome
2. Election of new members
3. Treasurers report
4. Trades Council report
5. Southport DM report
6. Hands Off Our Schools Brighton & Hove campaign donation
7. Talks 
8. Summer party
9. AOB

Photos from the Southport DM

Our delegates: Amy, Melita and Ollie

Ollie presents our motion to conference

Our motion on doing more to retrain redundant journalists was carried, despite an intervention by General Secretary Michelle Stanistreet. Our late motion on maternity benefits was was withdrawn as NUJ had already addressed the issue of publicising fee reduction for parental leave. 

Photos by Observer Fred Pipes.

NUJ courses for freelancers, including free Brighton course

Free course for members of the NUJ, Equity and the MU - Finance for Freelancers on April 22nd at the Friends Meeting House. You need to apply by April 12th and get put in a lucky dip if there aren't enough places.

More info on http://www.feutraining.org/2016/finance-freelances-22-april-brighton/

Brighton branch freelance members may also be interested in attending either or both of the NUJ freelancing business one-day training courses coming up soon in London. They are:

Getting Started As A Freelance on April 29, taught by Louise Bolotin and Hina Pandya, see https://www.nuj.org.uk/events/getting-started-as-a-freelance-april-2016/ for details, and

Pitch & Deal on Friday May 6, taught by Louise Bolotin and Phil Sutcliffe, seehttps://www.nuj.org.uk/events/pitch-and-deal-may-2016/ for details (and here's a nice story from Oxford branch website about a version of the course the tutors ran for them in March https://oxfordnuj.wordpress.com ).

Next meeting: Wednesday, 6 April at 7pm, Craft Beer Company

Next meeting:
Wednesday, 6 April at 7pm, Craft Beer Company, 

Upper North Street, Brighton

thecraftbeerco.com/pubs/brighton/

Agenda

1. Welcome and apologies
2. Election of new members
3. Treasurer's report
4. Trades Council report
5. Branch cheque signature handover
6. Delegates Meeting
7. Any Other Business

Refugees Welcome demo: Saturday 19 March in London

Our Branch is supporting the Refugees Welcome demo in London, Saturday 19 March.

Stand Up to Racism!

Brighton People’s Assembly is running a coach to London for the Stand Up To Racism demonstration on 19 March, in association with The Big Lemon.

The Coach will depart from Brighton’s Old Steine at 9am, and people from all over the country will be assembling at 12.00 noon at Portland Place, W1A 1AA.

At the end of the day the coach will pick up from The Mall, close to Trafalgar Square at 4.00 pm.

Brighton People’s Assembly is offering subsided transport to enable everyone to be able to come regardless of means. The minimum donation is £5, with a standard ticket being £10. If you are able to contribute more and would like to enable someone else to be able to come too, we are also offering Donation tickets at £20.

Thank you very much for your support and we hope to see you there!

To book a place go to http://thebiglemon.myshopify.com/products/refugees-welcome

Next meeting: Monday 7 March at 7pm, Craft Beer Company

Next meeting: 

Monday 7 March at 7pm, Craft Beer Company

http://thecraftbeerco.com/pubs/brighton/

Agenda

1. Welcome and apologies
2. Election of new members
3. Treasurer's report
4. Support for March 19 Stand Up to Racism demo
5. Support for Stop the War Brighton & Hove
6. Trades Council report, AGM, affiliation and delegates
7. DM - Late Notice Motion on NUJ subs during maternity leave
8. Disabled people in journalism training
9. Election of new branch secretary
10. AOB

Next meeting: Tuesday 2 February at 7.30, Craft Beer Company

Next meeting: Tuesday 2 February at 7.30, Craft Beer Company

Also this Saturday

Unprecedented cuts to local council funding by the government is meaning vital services are under severe threat. Across Brighton and East Sussex this is likely to mean, Libraries closing, day care centres for the disabled closing, special schools to close, special educational needs teachers cut, ending the housing support service, reductions in sexual health services, youth services cut, drug rehabilitation cut, children’s centres to close and much more.

The Trade Unions and local campaigning organisations are organising demonstrations this Saturday 30th January to raise awareness of the depth of the cuts and build opposition to them.

Brighton: Meet Midday at the Level, Union Road to march to the Town Hall

Eastbourne: Meet 11am Bankers Corner, Terminus Road

Wapping Lies: Media Democracy 30 Years On

Saturday, 23 January 2016 - 13:30 to 16:30
Friends Meeting House
Ship Street BN1 1AF Brighton

Sussex LRC has organised an afternoon of politics, laughs, poems and song to mark the printworkers' fight for jobs and justice during the 1986/87 Wapping Dispute and examine how ownership of the media stifles press and broadcasting freedom in the UK, discuss the impact of social media, and have some fun!

Hear from

• Paul King – Father Of Chapel (union rep) at The Sun Machine Chapel,
• local performance poet Attila the Stockbroker,
• John Bailey – FOC for the NGA at The Sun,
• Mike Simons – Executive Producer of Still The Enemy Within and a journalist during Wapping,
• comedian Kate Smurthwaite,
• Morning Star Editor Ben Chacko,
• singer/songwriter Robb Johnson,
• Independent journalist Liam Young, and others. 

Refreshments will be available.

£4 waged, £2 concessions with donations from the event being made to the News International Dispute Archive and the Campaign For Press and Broadcasting Freedom

Facebook event HERE

More info:

http://www.brightonpa.org.uk/event/2016-01-23-133000-2016-01-23-163000/wapping-lies-media-democracy-30-years