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London Freelance Branch meetingsLFB meetings are at 7pm on the second Monday of each month (except August), generally at Friends House, Euston Road, London WC1. For the benefit of members coming in from shifts and so on, there are now free sandwiches. Please check back here - meeting subjects and speakers inevitably change from time to time. To be sure of receiving our monthly email alert and virtual Freelance listing, give us your details at www.londonfreelance.org/linkup.php. |
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| Jan 14 |
The Branch's Annual General Meeting |
| Feb 11 | Comment is free, but the truth costs |
| Mar 10 | How this site can answer your questions |
| Apr 14 | David Redfern: 'photographers must stick together' |
| May 12 | Copyright matters at the House of Commons |
| Jun 09 | Do we have company? Accountant Eric Longley spoke on reducing your tax. |
| Jul 14 | Working in conflict zones Palestine woes |
| August | No meeting |
| Sep 08 | Authentic rôle-plays practising dealing with commissioning editors - report TK TK |
| Oct 13 |
SOMALIA is one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists to work in. There's an update on the conditions Somali journalists face there at the meeting on Monday 13 October. Forces on both sides in a conflict between the occupying Ethiopian army and the ousted Union of Islamic Courts are regularly threatening, driving into exile and even killing journalists there. Somali TV and radio journalist Abdi Salam is our speaker. The meeting will look at what we can do by way of practical solidarity to assist Somali journalists.
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| Nov 10 |
A meeting on self-publishing with photographer Dewi Lewis, founder of www.dewilewispublishing.com, who has published books of his own photographs. We hope also to have a speaker to tell us about self-publishing for authors. |
| Dec 08 |
A seasonal London Freelance Branch networking party (NOT on any other date mentioned in the printed Freelance), provisionally at the the NUJ's headquarters at Headland House. |
| 2009 Jan 12 |
Annual General Meeting |
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The Branch Committee welcomes suggestions for speakers and topics for meetings: contact editor@londonfreelance.org. |
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| For LFB meetings use the entrance in Friends' House garden. | |
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Friends' House is accessible to people who use wheelchairs. The nearest stops on the Tube are Euston (Victoria and both Northern Lines) and Euston Square (Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and, when the Moon is full, the Circle Line). Euston is also served by Silverlink and Virgin Trains. If you need the Branch to pay for care for a dependant to be able to attend a meeting, contact a Branch officer. |
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| Motions for the September meeting | |
The FreelanceThis Branch notes that the Journalist is scheduled to appear in a printed edition only six times in the year from October 2008/September 2009. It further notes that this impinges on the distribution of the Freelance, as the Branch cannot afford to post a paper copy of the Freelance (at a cost of £3000 per edition or more) for alternate editions. Therefore, with reluctance, it agrees that a printed edition of the Freelance will be produced only on alternate months, in order to fit in with the new schedule of the Journalist. Interim editions will be emailed to members as PDFs and available on the LFB website. AmendmentNo way are we clogging up members' email inboxes with PDF files. Members who have given us up-to-date email addresses (see www.londonfreelance.org/linkup) will receive links to the normal HTML Freelance (seewww.londonfreelance.org/fl) and to PDF files that they can download at their leisure. |
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| Motions put to the July meeting | |
CPBF delegateLondon Freelance Branch agrees to send, as its delegate, Larry Herman to the Annual General Meeting of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom on Saturday, 19 July 2008. The LFB also agrees to pay the £16.00 delegate fee. |
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| Motions put to the June meeting | |
Journalist costsAs part of the pan-NUJ effort to deal with the present financial difficulty, and avoid it turning nasty on us, this branch agrees to a non-precedent-setting donation of £1000 to the Journalist to help offset the cost to its budget of mailing out the Freelance to LFB members - this donation to be delivered in no fewer than two payments between now and 31 December 2008 as and when we can afford it. |
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| Motions put to the April meeting | |
DTP equipmentThis Branch agrees to spend up to £1000 on the programs InDesign and InCopy for production of the Freelance - less if we can get a non-profit organisation discount rate. Authors' rights campaigningRights Expert Group.
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| Motions put to the January meeting | |
Vice-chairs1. This Branch agrees to amend Standing Order 6 to read: "...two Vice Chairs..." 2. This Branch agrees to amend Standing Order 8 to read: "The Chairperson shall preside at all meetings and one of the Vice-Chair persons shall preside in his/her absence. Should none be present..." 3. This Branch agrees to amend Standing Order 7 (d) to read: "The Branch Chair shall also chair the delegation, and in their absence one of the Vice-Chair people..." Submit your motion (until two days before the meeting). |
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