London Freelance Branch meetings
LFB 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
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Feb 11 |
Comment is free, but the truth costs
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| Mar 10 |
How this site can answer your questions
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| Apr 14 |
David Redfern: 'photographers must stick together'
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| May 12 |
Changes to copyright law are looming - see Copyright at stake.
There are also proposals to reduce funding for Public Lending Right (PLR) payments to authors whose books are borrowed from libraries - see last issue - and our main speaker will be novelist and biographer Maureen Duffy, who practically invented PLR with the late Brigid Brophy in the 1970s. We also hope to discuss possible levies on copying media, such as CD-Rs and memory sticks.
We will also hear from NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear and hope to hear John McDonnell MP (Lab, Hayes and Harlington), chair of the NUJ Parliamentary Group. Speaking at the recent NUJ annual conference, John denounced Tony Blair's and Gordon Brown's efforts to block EU legislation on protection of vulnerable workers from being made law in the UK, and declared his belief that these days "the role of Parliament is a roof to climb to put a banner up on it."
Our formal host for the evening is David Drew MP, another member of the NUJ PG - thanks to him for stepping in at short notice.
Turn up at the Visitor's Entrance in St Stephen's Green at 6.45pm at the latest to clear security formalities, and ask for the Committee Room booked by David Drew for the NUJ Parliamentary Group. And don't chain your bike to railings near Parliament.
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| Jun 09 |
Sorting out your taxes ahead of the faster-than-you'd-expected approach of the deadlines is the subject - back at our usual Friends House venue. Our speaker is Eric Longley, accountant to the stars, and to some LFB members, who will impart sound advice with a sense of humour.
There's an outside chance we'll have a "friendly" tax advisor from HM Revenue and Customs to speak as well. The deadline for the paper version of the 2007-2008 tax return is earlier this year.
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| Jul 14 |
TBA |
| August |
No meeting |
| Sep 08 |
TBA |
| Oct 13 |
TBA |
| Nov 10 |
TBA |
| Dec 08 |
TBA |
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 June meeting
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Journalist costs
As 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.
Proposed: The Committee
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Motions passed at the April meeting
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DTP equipment
This 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.
Proposed: The Committee
Authors' rights campaigning
Rights Expert Group.
Proposed: The Committee
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Motions passed at the January meeting
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Vice-chairs
1. 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..."
Proposed: John Toner
Submit your motion (until two days before the meeting).
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The archive
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