Fwd: Skylight Books to Participate in May Day General Strike Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:27:44 -0700 Subject: For Immediate Release: Skylight Books to Participate in May Day General Strike From: Megan Wade Antieau <me...@skylightbooks.com>
Skylight Books 1818 N. Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90027 (323) 660-1175 www.skylightbooks.com Contact: Meg Wade me...@skylightbooks.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SKYLIGHT BOOKS TO PARTICIPATE IN MAY DAY GENERAL STRIKE (April 24, 2012) -- Skylight Books in Los Feliz will participate in the May 1st General Strike next Tuesday, serving as a meeting place in the morning for neighborhood members to gather and travel to the Occupy activities downtown, and hosting labor singer Ross Altman at 7:30pm to teach about the history of May Day and lead and perform classic labor songs. The popular bookstore will also close its storefront from 2 to 5 p.m. so that its staff may attend demonstrations downtown, and its Arts Annex at 1814 N. Vermont will close the entire day in support of the call for a general boycott. Citizens are invited to gather at 12 p.m. and meet members of the bookstore staff as well as artists affiliated with the Occupy movement, who will then lead the group via public transit to converge with other groups at MacArthur Park and then march downtown, to join in OccupyLAs 2:30 p.m. rally at 6th Street and Main Street, as well as the 4 p.m. rally at Olympic and Broadway in support of immigrants rights. (Participants should bring $1.50 if they plan to take the red line with the group.) Skylight will also serve as a point of information throughout the day, and community groups are invited to drop off fliers from now through May 1st advertising other events in support of the General Strike. Displays throughout the bookstore will also highlight titles on the history of May 1st, the Haymarket Affair, and the labor movement more broadly. At 5 p.m., when its 1818 N. Vermont storefront reopens, light refreshments will be available throughout the evening to the public. At 7:30 p.m., folk musician Ross Altman will share and teach classic labor songs as well as some brief history about May 1st and International Workers Day. Ross is a member of Local 47 of the Professional Musicians UnionAFL-CIO and writes for FolkWorks. He recently performed in the Grammy Museum tribute to the legendary Ash Grove folk music club. As an independent bookstore, we encounter daily the ways in which an economy based only around large profit can destroy local, neighborhood-focused enterprises, said Skylight bookseller Meg Wade. So were participating on May 1st to show our support for strong, community-based economies that benefit the lives of their workers, because we think that we and our fellow Los Angelenos deserve that. More information is available on the stores website at http://skylightbooks.com. About Skylight Books Skylight Books is an independent bookstore (founded in 1996) in a 1930s storefront located in Los Felizbetween Hollywood and downtown Los Angeles. In 2008, Skylight expanded into the storefront next door, moving the art, photography, architecture, design, film, theater, music, graphic novel, and magazine sections into the new space, and giving more room to the fiction, nonfiction, and childrens sections in the original store. The store is active in supporting its local library as well as young writers at our local schools and has also, with the help of its customers, donated many books to the Childrens Hospital Poetry Project and numerous neighborhood elementary and high schools. Skylight's author events have included many high-profile novelists, graphic novelists, and political authors including Cornel West, Mike Davis, Jim Hightower, the CodePink founders, and Amy Goodman. ### ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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