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¶October 2008 - online only / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5

* Dublin does it right freelances to get rights
* Merlin - one to watch? music independents' forum
* Messages of support... Sheffield & Midlands papers
* The Gong Green Parent
* Freedom for Belarus meeting 09/10/08
* Wellbeing! survey for you
* New blood sought! for Freelance Branch
* Herald-Times face industrial action over photographers' contracts
 

¶September 2008 / PDFs: p1 p2 p3 p4

* And the moral is... artists abused
* Exploited in Palestine support in conflict
* Paid on the nail! PR pressure
* Twelve million dollars! Photographer's win
* Brief video training sign up and save
 

¶August 2008

* Time for company? maybe form one to save tax
* Red card for red cars Met chides cops
* Baleful Bauer get in touch over contracts
* Structuralism union consultation
* Features R us writing courses
* AD Freelance sought: CRA campaign co-ordinator
 

¶July 2008

* Pics returned eventually
* The Trireme Award Carlisle News + Star / Yahoo!
* Copyright matters Commons meeting report
* Vote early, vote up to four times! Video of election hustings
* Branch cyberdemocracy how'd that work, then?
* Save the BBC! and also C4 and ITV...
 

¶June 2008 - online only

* Meet the candidates hustings 29/05/08
* York on strike from 22/05/08
 

¶May 2008

* Dear editor... campaign on commissioning
* The right to photograph tell your MP to sign up
* The Trireme A tight-fisted business start-up
* Avoid October surprise! tax timetable tightens
* Ethical conundrums? helpline launched
 

¶April 2008

* One's a crowd against protest gags
* Vallée victory Met pays up
* Calling new members gathering 17/04/08
* WWWhat? guide to this site
* US visa your inflexible friend
* Press Freedom Day event 02/05/08
* Money for free! so how they get that, then?
* Signal failure broadcasters seek rights, again
* NUJ slams SOCPA demands to work free from threat
* Freelance Directory update your entry now
* Going through the motions how union annual meetings work
* Democracy in motion how Branch business works
* Iraq + 5 meeting 10/04/08
* Template for success can you help with InDesign?
* Take note! Branch seeks note-takers
* LETTER Tarik Ramadan writes: thank you!
* Express strike Fridays from 11/04/08
 

¶March 2008

* Churnalism matters media freedom meeting
* Calling BBC freelances! demand representation
 

¶February 2008

* Guildy as charged screenwriters' strike goes on
* Citizen journalism Milton Keynes has strikes to 07/02/08
* Copyright stripped away? keeping identifiers
* Ac-cred-i-tate! Northcliffe's odd charge
* Lapdancer protects morals right to right credit, that is
* Subbing days course 11/03/08
* Harare help aid to Zimbabwe union
* Terror teach-in seminar on the Acts 19/02/08
* Calling BBC freelances! demand recognition
* The Trireme World's Fair
* LETTER Off the buses
 

¶January 2008

* Comment négocier? course handy for Europe 01/03/08
* Fees Guide updated more info now!
* Multimedia, NUJ, freelances convergence report
* Guardian warning archive demand
* BBC alert strike imminent?
* BBC petition sign it now
* ALCS election vote by 04/01/08
* The Gong Sweet & Maxwell (not the freelances to annoy)
* LETTER Shifting that rate
 

¶December 2007

* Monitor policing more mixed mores
* Paypal painless payment abroad?
* Quality meet 06/12/07
* Dutch treat rates agreement not a cartel
* BBC petition vexation without representation!
* Radio wave we support Mexican radio
* What structure? to build a union
* Casual clarification some rights after two years
* LETTER Rewrite rejected
* LETTER Collective action!
 

¶November 2007

* Great expectations of orphans what will become of authorless works?
* Name, lens and number? problematic police
* Comment is frequently bad-tempered Guardian's Comment is Free blog
* A Charter for freelances EFJ Charter of Freelance Rights
* No to Getty giveaway photographers resist
* Nobody expected beer Palestine camera debuts
* We want recognition at the BBC 05/11/07 meeting for BBC freelances
* Trireme Award Bikesport News
* LETTERS Infrequently thanked
* The first casualty of war? conference 17/11/07
* Dublin do convergence conference 20/10/07
 
Freelance updated 2008-10-14

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