Wednesday, 21 April 2010
May Day Events in Toronto 2010
Courtesy of the Centre for the Study of Education and Work, here are some excellent May Day events to check out:
"• Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts
• May Day Concert - Solidarity with Steelworkers @ Vale Inco
• M1M Rally & March: Working-Class People Unite on May Day!
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MAYWORKS FESTIVAL OF WORKING PEOPLE AND THE ARTS
April 24-May 2
Various venues
Welcome to the 25th Anniversary Festival! Once again this year, Mayworks reaffirms its place in Toronto’s cultural and labour scenes. The festival strives to bring together many divergent groups: artists, social movements, community groups, organized labour and non-unionized workers to work together to support each other’s struggles and issues. We believe in using the arts to do this.
More info: http://www.mayworks.ca/calendar.html
.....
MAY DAY CONCERT - SOLIDARITY WITH STEELWORKERS @ VALE INCO
Thursday, April 29
7:30pm - 11:30pm
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Avenue in Toronto
(just off Bloor St. between the Spadina and Bathurst subway stations)
Celebrate May Day!!
The Rank & File Band - George Hewison and friends
with guests:
Kevin Wrycraft
Sara Marlowe & the Program
Natasha Luckhardt
$10 or PWYC - net proceeds to Steelworkers strike fund
More info: http://www.georgehewison.ca/node/142
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M1M RALLY & MARCH: WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE UNITE ON MAY DAY!
On Saturday, May 1, 2010, rally, march, and celebrate May Day with the May 1st Movement (M1M), as we organize ourselves to strengthen the unity and solidarity of working people in Toronto.
1:00pm Rally
CUPE 4400 – Bathurst / St. Clair (rear parking lot)
1:30pm March
Up Vaughan Rd. / Down Oakwood / East on St. Clair to Wychwood Barns
3:00pm Cultural Event
Wychwood Barns - 601 Christie St. (Christie south of St. Clair)
For well over 100 years, May Day – or May 1st – has been the day of resistance and celebration for workers all throughout the world. It is a day when workers quit their slaving away and pour into the streets to demonstrate the power of unity. In many cases, May Day has been a launching point for massive working-class fight-backs.
While May Day was born out of Chicago after the 1886 Haymarket Massacre of workers by the police, us workers in North America have been denied this tradition by having our ‘Labour Day’ pushed into September, diverting our class from celebrating and struggling with the international working class.
With the deepening of the world economic crisis combined with the destruction of the environment by capitalism, the unity and leadership of working class people is needed now more than ever before.
"• Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts
• May Day Concert - Solidarity with Steelworkers @ Vale Inco
• M1M Rally & March: Working-Class People Unite on May Day!
.....
MAYWORKS FESTIVAL OF WORKING PEOPLE AND THE ARTS
April 24-May 2
Various venues
Welcome to the 25th Anniversary Festival! Once again this year, Mayworks reaffirms its place in Toronto’s cultural and labour scenes. The festival strives to bring together many divergent groups: artists, social movements, community groups, organized labour and non-unionized workers to work together to support each other’s struggles and issues. We believe in using the arts to do this.
More info: http://www.mayworks.ca/calendar.html
.....
MAY DAY CONCERT - SOLIDARITY WITH STEELWORKERS @ VALE INCO
Thursday, April 29
7:30pm - 11:30pm
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Avenue in Toronto
(just off Bloor St. between the Spadina and Bathurst subway stations)
Celebrate May Day!!
The Rank & File Band - George Hewison and friends
with guests:
Kevin Wrycraft
Sara Marlowe & the Program
Natasha Luckhardt
$10 or PWYC - net proceeds to Steelworkers strike fund
More info: http://www.georgehewison.ca/node/142
.....
M1M RALLY & MARCH: WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE UNITE ON MAY DAY!
On Saturday, May 1, 2010, rally, march, and celebrate May Day with the May 1st Movement (M1M), as we organize ourselves to strengthen the unity and solidarity of working people in Toronto.
1:00pm Rally
CUPE 4400 – Bathurst / St. Clair (rear parking lot)
1:30pm March
Up Vaughan Rd. / Down Oakwood / East on St. Clair to Wychwood Barns
3:00pm Cultural Event
Wychwood Barns - 601 Christie St. (Christie south of St. Clair)
For well over 100 years, May Day – or May 1st – has been the day of resistance and celebration for workers all throughout the world. It is a day when workers quit their slaving away and pour into the streets to demonstrate the power of unity. In many cases, May Day has been a launching point for massive working-class fight-backs.
While May Day was born out of Chicago after the 1886 Haymarket Massacre of workers by the police, us workers in North America have been denied this tradition by having our ‘Labour Day’ pushed into September, diverting our class from celebrating and struggling with the international working class.
With the deepening of the world economic crisis combined with the destruction of the environment by capitalism, the unity and leadership of working class people is needed now more than ever before.
Labels: May Day, Mayworks, Sara Marlowe
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
no one is illegal toronto news: City is a Sweatshop! May Day! G8/20 Resistance!
A recent email announcement from no one is illegal toronto:
MARK THESE DATES
********** March 19-21, 2010: The City is a Sweatshop
********** May 1, 2010: 5th Annual No One Is Illegal! May Day of Action
********** June 25-27, 2010: G8/20 Leaders Summit – Toronto
Outraged by the global suffering and displacement caused by large
corporations based in cities like Toronto.
Knowing that corporations profit from war, occupation, environmental
catastrophe and the poverty of poor people worldwide.
Enraged by the mistreatment of migrants by these same corporations
that pay low wages, deny rights and exploit people.
No One Is Illegal-Toronto is organizing days of education, community
building and idea sharing, ‘The City is a Sweatshop’, from March
19-21, 2010.
Website: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/thecityisasweatshop
Convinced that organized communities can win radical demands and
create real alternatives.
Believing that the struggle for Status for All is the struggle for
good jobs, housing, food, education, shelter, freedom, justice and
dignity for all people.
No One Is Illegal-Toronto calls its supporters and allies to take to
the streets to demand Status for All on the 5th Annual May Day of
Action – May 1, 2010!
No One Is Illegal! May Day of Action: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/mayday
Convinced that struggles for climate justice, for income equity, for
an end to war and occupation, for the right to move, for Indigenous
sovereignty, and for the ability to participate in decisions that
impact our lives, are all linked.
Ready to embark on a new journey of collective struggle in the face of
global destruction.
No One Is Illegal-Toronto will join community organizations from
across Turtle Island to mobilize against the meeting of the G8/G20
'leaders' - June 25-27, 2010.
Sign up here! https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/community.mobilize
Next Meeting: February 21, 2010, 11am, 25 Cecil Street
G8 & G20 2010 Toronto: www.attacktheroots.net (please link to your website)
MARK THESE DATES
********** March 19-21, 2010: Sweatshop City No More
********** May 1, 2010: No One Is Illegal! May Day of Action
********** June 25-27, 2010: G8/20 Leaders Summit – Toronto
====
No One Is Illegal-Toronto
Visit our website!
www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org
Join our low traffic announcements list,
email nooneisillegal@riseup.net
No One Is Illegal (Toronto) is a grassroots group of migrants and
allies who fight for the rights of all to live with dignity and
respect. We believe that granting citizenship to a privileged few is
part of a racist immigration and border policy designed to exploit and
marginalize migrants. We work to oppose these policies, as well as the
international economic and environmental policies that create the
conditions of poverty and war that force migration. We work to support
and build alliances with Indigenous peoples in their fight against
colonialism, displacement and the ongoing occupation of their land.
MARK THESE DATES
********** March 19-21, 2010: The City is a Sweatshop
********** May 1, 2010: 5th Annual No One Is Illegal! May Day of Action
********** June 25-27, 2010: G8/20 Leaders Summit – Toronto
Outraged by the global suffering and displacement caused by large
corporations based in cities like Toronto.
Knowing that corporations profit from war, occupation, environmental
catastrophe and the poverty of poor people worldwide.
Enraged by the mistreatment of migrants by these same corporations
that pay low wages, deny rights and exploit people.
No One Is Illegal-Toronto is organizing days of education, community
building and idea sharing, ‘The City is a Sweatshop’, from March
19-21, 2010.
Website: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/thecityisasweatshop
Convinced that organized communities can win radical demands and
create real alternatives.
Believing that the struggle for Status for All is the struggle for
good jobs, housing, food, education, shelter, freedom, justice and
dignity for all people.
No One Is Illegal-Toronto calls its supporters and allies to take to
the streets to demand Status for All on the 5th Annual May Day of
Action – May 1, 2010!
No One Is Illegal! May Day of Action: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/mayday
Convinced that struggles for climate justice, for income equity, for
an end to war and occupation, for the right to move, for Indigenous
sovereignty, and for the ability to participate in decisions that
impact our lives, are all linked.
Ready to embark on a new journey of collective struggle in the face of
global destruction.
No One Is Illegal-Toronto will join community organizations from
across Turtle Island to mobilize against the meeting of the G8/G20
'leaders' - June 25-27, 2010.
Sign up here! https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/community.mobilize
Next Meeting: February 21, 2010, 11am, 25 Cecil Street
G8 & G20 2010 Toronto: www.attacktheroots.net (please link to your website)
MARK THESE DATES
********** March 19-21, 2010: Sweatshop City No More
********** May 1, 2010: No One Is Illegal! May Day of Action
********** June 25-27, 2010: G8/20 Leaders Summit – Toronto
====
No One Is Illegal-Toronto
Visit our website!
www.toronto.nooneisillegal.org
Join our low traffic announcements list,
email nooneisillegal@riseup.net
No One Is Illegal (Toronto) is a grassroots group of migrants and
allies who fight for the rights of all to live with dignity and
respect. We believe that granting citizenship to a privileged few is
part of a racist immigration and border policy designed to exploit and
marginalize migrants. We work to oppose these policies, as well as the
international economic and environmental policies that create the
conditions of poverty and war that force migration. We work to support
and build alliances with Indigenous peoples in their fight against
colonialism, displacement and the ongoing occupation of their land.
Labels: May Day, no one is illegal
