Gather at Union Square, 12 noon
14th St. & Broadway, Manhattan
March to Foley Square for Unity Closing Rally with Central Labor Council demonstration
Demand Jobs, Legalization, No Cuts,
Stop the Deportations
Donate Funds to Help Pay for May Day Costs. Drop Your Donation at the Solidarity Center Office or Bring a Contribution to May Day
Pick Up Leaflets & Raffle Tickets at the Office!!! Build May Day!!
For more information visit http://www.may1.info/ or call 212.633.6646
Júntense en Union Square al 12 del mediodía
14th St. y Broadway, Manhattan
Marchar a Foley Square para la Rally de la Unidad
Demandas: Trabajo, Legalización, Fin a los Recortes, que se Paren las Deportaciones
Donar Fondos Para Ayudar a Pagar Gastos del Primero de Mayo.
Entrega su Donación a la Oficina del Centro Solidaridad
O Trae una Contribución al Primero de Mayo
Recoje Folletos y Boletos de Rifa
en la Oficina.
Para obtener más información, visite http://www.may1.info/ o llame al 212.633.6646
Sunday, May 1, 2011
May Day Rallies Will Support Workers' and Immigrant Rights
By James Parks, AFL-CIO Now Blog News
April 27, 2011
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/04/27/may-day-rallies-will-support-workers-and-immigrant-rights/
This May Day, working people are rallying across the country to oppose attacks on workers’ rights and immigrant rights. Just as we did on April 4, working people will declare: “Somos Unos—Respeten Nuestros Derechos” or “We Are One—Respect Our Rights.”
Workers’ rights and immigrant rights are connected. CEO-backed politicians are targeting all working people—including immigrants—with their corporate-sponsored political agenda and continuing power grab. In addition to demanding protection for collective bargaining and other workers’ rights, ralliers will call for comprehensive immigration reform and passage of the DREAM Act, which would provide undocumented young people a pathway to legal residency through higher education or service in the military.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says:
These [May Day] marches are driven by the same spirit of activism and commitment that drives our brothers and sisters in Wisconsin and every other community that is now fighting back against the attacks on working people.
Trumka will speak at a march and rally of about 60,000 people in Milwaukee. Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler will address a crowd in Chicago and Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker will join a mass rally in New York City.
To find out what is happening in your community on May Day or to plan an event, visit http://www.we-r-1.org/ .
Here are some other major rallies planned for May Day:
•In Boston, thousands will participate in a march that draws on the global fight for workers’ rights with the theme of “From Cairo to Wisconsin to Massachusetts Defend All Workers’ Rights.”
•In Houston, the local chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) is joining with Houston United in a huge rally for workers’ rights and immigrant rights.
•In Buffalo, N.Y., working people and immigrants will march 2.1 miles from the east side of the city to the west side of Buffalo for a rally to protest the threat to close a community health clinic that supports the growing Latino community.
April 27, 2011
http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/04/27/may-day-rallies-will-support-workers-and-immigrant-rights/
This May Day, working people are rallying across the country to oppose attacks on workers’ rights and immigrant rights. Just as we did on April 4, working people will declare: “Somos Unos—Respeten Nuestros Derechos” or “We Are One—Respect Our Rights.”
Workers’ rights and immigrant rights are connected. CEO-backed politicians are targeting all working people—including immigrants—with their corporate-sponsored political agenda and continuing power grab. In addition to demanding protection for collective bargaining and other workers’ rights, ralliers will call for comprehensive immigration reform and passage of the DREAM Act, which would provide undocumented young people a pathway to legal residency through higher education or service in the military.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says:
These [May Day] marches are driven by the same spirit of activism and commitment that drives our brothers and sisters in Wisconsin and every other community that is now fighting back against the attacks on working people.
Trumka will speak at a march and rally of about 60,000 people in Milwaukee. Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler will address a crowd in Chicago and Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker will join a mass rally in New York City.
To find out what is happening in your community on May Day or to plan an event, visit http://www.we-r-1.org/ .
Here are some other major rallies planned for May Day:
•In Boston, thousands will participate in a march that draws on the global fight for workers’ rights with the theme of “From Cairo to Wisconsin to Massachusetts Defend All Workers’ Rights.”
•In Houston, the local chapter of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement (LCLAA) is joining with Houston United in a huge rally for workers’ rights and immigrant rights.
•In Buffalo, N.Y., working people and immigrants will march 2.1 miles from the east side of the city to the west side of Buffalo for a rally to protest the threat to close a community health clinic that supports the growing Latino community.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
What Kind of May Day Do We Need this Year?
The combination of existential challenges and historic opportunities facing workers indicates only one appropriate response on May 1, 2011: everyone together in the streets against the attacks on immigrants, public and private sector unions, and all working people.
By Daniel Gross, ZNet
April 19, 2011
Who would have thought?
The self-sacrifice of a street vendor in Tunisia sparked the rage of a nation including general strikes from independent unions which successfully ousted the Ben-Ali dictatorship. The garment workers of Mahalla and their national day of action catalyzed the seeds of revolt in Egypt. Then with millions in the street and Hosni Mubarak obstinately ensconced in his compound, mass industrial action from workers across sectors and across Egypt broke the stalemate and ended a 30-year reign of oppression. Popular revolts have spread throughout the region. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.zcommunications.org/what-kind-of-may-day-do-we-need-this-year-by-daniel-gross
By Daniel Gross, ZNet
April 19, 2011
Who would have thought?
The self-sacrifice of a street vendor in Tunisia sparked the rage of a nation including general strikes from independent unions which successfully ousted the Ben-Ali dictatorship. The garment workers of Mahalla and their national day of action catalyzed the seeds of revolt in Egypt. Then with millions in the street and Hosni Mubarak obstinately ensconced in his compound, mass industrial action from workers across sectors and across Egypt broke the stalemate and ended a 30-year reign of oppression. Popular revolts have spread throughout the region. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.zcommunications.org/what-kind-of-may-day-do-we-need-this-year-by-daniel-gross
May Day Rallies Reveal America’s True Self—Its Promise and Its Fear
By Rinku Sen, ColorLines
April 28 2011
I have two abiding memories from third grade. The first is of reciting the pledge of allegiance: rows of white, black and Latino kids (and me, the lone South Asian) taking a deep breath before the climactic words “with liberty and justice for all.” My other memory is of us kids diving under our desks when the air raid alarm went off, a practice induced by Cold War paranoia. Each year as May 1 rolls around, these two memories stand side by side as I watch corporate media’s response to the day’s vibrant marches for immigrant and labor rights. The inspiring scene of several hundred thousand very diverse people asserting their Americanness is followed by the paranoid fantasies of people who see foreign invasions coming to their home towns. [...]
Read the full article:
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/04/may_day_rallies_reveal_americas_true_self.html
April 28 2011
I have two abiding memories from third grade. The first is of reciting the pledge of allegiance: rows of white, black and Latino kids (and me, the lone South Asian) taking a deep breath before the climactic words “with liberty and justice for all.” My other memory is of us kids diving under our desks when the air raid alarm went off, a practice induced by Cold War paranoia. Each year as May 1 rolls around, these two memories stand side by side as I watch corporate media’s response to the day’s vibrant marches for immigrant and labor rights. The inspiring scene of several hundred thousand very diverse people asserting their Americanness is followed by the paranoid fantasies of people who see foreign invasions coming to their home towns. [...]
Read the full article:
http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/04/may_day_rallies_reveal_americas_true_self.html
Will Public Workers and Immigrants March Together on May Day?
By David Bacon, In These Times
April 28, 2011
One sign carried in almost every May Day march of the last few years says it all: "We are Workers, not Criminals!" Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they'd just come from work in a factory, cleaning an office building, or picking grapes.
The sign stated an obvious truth. Millions of people have come to the United States to work, not to break its laws. Some have come with visas, and others without them. But they are all contributors to the society they've found here.
This year, those marchers will be joined by the public workers we saw in the state capitol in Madison, whose message was the same: we all work, we all contribute to our communities and we all have the right to a job, a union and a decent life. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7246/will_public_workers_an
April 28, 2011
One sign carried in almost every May Day march of the last few years says it all: "We are Workers, not Criminals!" Often it was held in the calloused hands of men and women who looked as though they'd just come from work in a factory, cleaning an office building, or picking grapes.
The sign stated an obvious truth. Millions of people have come to the United States to work, not to break its laws. Some have come with visas, and others without them. But they are all contributors to the society they've found here.
This year, those marchers will be joined by the public workers we saw in the state capitol in Madison, whose message was the same: we all work, we all contribute to our communities and we all have the right to a job, a union and a decent life. [...]
Read the full article:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7246/will_public_workers_an
Friday, April 29, 2011
Videos: May 1 Warmup Queens March April 24th
By Daniel Vila, Independent Workers Movement
April 26, 2011
Channel NY1 covered in both English and Spanish the march organized by the Independent Workers Movement in Queens, NY, Sunday, April 24.
The march began in front of the Philippine Forum at 69th Street, Queens and went up Roosevelt Avenue for a rally on 83rd Street and Roosevelt.
Hundreds of pieces of literature inviting people to Union Square for May Day were distributed. More than 400 copies of the Independent Workers Movement newspaper were distributed as well as flyers explaining the purpose of the march. Other organizations also distributed their literature.
Thanks to Jonna Baldres, Marina Diaz and Paola Martinez for the links.
http://queens.ny1.com/content/top_stories/137968/laborers-march-through-woodside-for-unions--immigrants--rights?ap=1&MP4&r=3273018616
http://www.ny1noticias.com/content/inicio/137970/jornaleros-protestan-por-derechos-laborales?ap=1&MP4
April 26, 2011
Channel NY1 covered in both English and Spanish the march organized by the Independent Workers Movement in Queens, NY, Sunday, April 24.
The march began in front of the Philippine Forum at 69th Street, Queens and went up Roosevelt Avenue for a rally on 83rd Street and Roosevelt.
Hundreds of pieces of literature inviting people to Union Square for May Day were distributed. More than 400 copies of the Independent Workers Movement newspaper were distributed as well as flyers explaining the purpose of the march. Other organizations also distributed their literature.
Thanks to Jonna Baldres, Marina Diaz and Paola Martinez for the links.
http://queens.ny1.com/content/top_stories/137968/laborers-march-through-woodside-for-unions--immigrants--rights?ap=1&MP4&r=3273018616
http://www.ny1noticias.com/content/inicio/137970/jornaleros-protestan-por-derechos-laborales?ap=1&MP4
Monday, April 18, 2011
The Future of Internationalism: Immigration and the Left
A Public Interview
with Jane Guskin and David Wilson,
authors of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers
Tuesday, April 19, 7:30 pm
At New York University, Silver, room 621
(the corner of Washington Place and Washington Square Park East)
Sponsor: NYU Platypus Affiliated Society
newyork@platypus1917.org
http://newyork.platypus1917.org/
with Jane Guskin and David Wilson,
authors of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers
Tuesday, April 19, 7:30 pm
At New York University, Silver, room 621
(the corner of Washington Place and Washington Square Park East)
Sponsor: NYU Platypus Affiliated Society
newyork@platypus1917.org
http://newyork.platypus1917.org/
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