Please note the MIWON May Day march was moved to Saturday April 30, they couldn't get a permit for May 1 because of a street fair in the area--MN
At 09:33 AM 4/19/2005, m0rph 30 wrote: >Mayday Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Authoritarian Contingent > >Gather at <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = >"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />11am at Olympic and >Broadway<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = >"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> > >Bring flags, banners, anti-authoritarian literature (in different >languages, English, Spanish, Korean, Chinese), yourself and your friends > >--------------- > >Worldwide May 1st is recognized as International Worker's Day, a holiday >that carries with it a history of class struggle, state repression, and >resistance from the working class. > > In 1886, 800,000 workers from all trades and factories throughout the > <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = X_x003f_XML />US went on strike demanding the > eight-hour workday. The Ruling class responded by sending out their > lap-dog police forces, opening fire on picketers, and in the end, > framing, railroading, and murdering eight anarchists in Chicago, known as > the "Haymarket martyrs." > >In 1889, the American delegation attending the International Socialist >congress in Paris proposed that May 1st be adopted as a workers' holiday. >This was to commemorate working class struggle and the "Martyrdom of the >Chicago Eight". This is where we find our history; this is Mayday! > >The legacy of Mayday lives on to this day, with worldwide celebrations of >resistance, direct action, and complete shut downs of factories, cities >and whole regions. In the United States, the powers-that-be replaced the >powerful workers holiday, with their own state-sanctioned event, otherwise >known as "labor day", in an attempt to once again control and regulate >working people. We are taught to forget the significance and importance of >this day because our bosses fear it; our bosses fear our power and our >significant history. They fear our potential when we're united and >fighting in solidarity against their capitalist power structure and their >entire way of life based on their greed. We will never forget and only >struggle harder. > >We realize that all forms of oppression are a result and stem from the >systems of capitalism and imperialism. We're united against capitalism, >imperialism, authoritarianism and all its forms of degradation and >bondage. From South Korea to Argentina, from Palestine to LA, we are >building and we are resisting. > >Although capitalists, racists and sexists don't like and even deny our >struggle, it will go on and grow. That's why on May 1st, the international >day of >labour, we call for an anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian contingent >at the >immigrant rights march organized by the MIWON Coalition. > >We're in solidarity with immigrants working in the garment district in >downtown, day laborers in the fields, and those that have been attacked >and assaulted by the racist Minute Men in Arizona. We passionately believe >that no human being is illegal, and borders are just a product of the rich >drawing lines between working people everywhere. We recognize that global >capitalism forces people to leave their homelands in need of survival, >which is a human right. As Revolutionary Anarchists we oppose this system >and instead believe that our communities must be reclaimed by all of us, >the people who they truly belong to. > >This is a call for a non-black bloc contingent. The purpose of the >contingent is to not alienate ourselves, but integrate ourselves with the >rest of the march. Our goals are to make alliances and connections, and to >engage people there not just hand them flyers. Our contingent will be >accountable to everyone at the march, therefore we would have to act >accordingly and think tactically. 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