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M1M RALLY & MARCH:
Working class people unite on May Day!
Working-class people unite on International Workers Day!
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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)
Featuring music from: Wasun | Amber O'Hara | Melodic | Sandy Paredes |
Lal | Rising Records Entertainment | Soul Sound Experience
- family friendly event
- activities for children
- delicious food and drinks*
*All sales from food and beverages will go to Chile Earthquake Re-
construction efforts through the Caravan of Hope (caravanofhope.ca).
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=241464840529&v=wall&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=112383948779316&ref=ts
For more information visit: www.basicsnews.ca
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WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE UNITE ON INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY!
Statement of the May 1st Movement (M1M) Coalition
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.
Every day, fresh attacks are being made against working people in
Canada – the unionized and non-unionized, migrant workers and the
undocumented. “Neoliberal” capitalism is launching attacks on every
section of the working-class to keep profits up – cuts to social
expenditures, pension raids, attacks on wages, corporate tax cuts; and
this system offers no alternative to the relentless destruction of the
environment.
The May 1st Movement declares that our struggles as working class
migrants and the children of working class migrants – with or without
status – requires a unity with the rest of the working class in
Canada. We also declare our support for the indigenous peoples and
nations fighting to exercise their right to self-determination over
their lands being occupied and plundered by the Canadian state,
extractive industries, and “developers”.
Finally, the struggle of migrants does not stop at attaining full
recognition as Canadian citizens. As Tamil Canadians demonstrated
heroically throughout 2009 with cross-country mobilizations of
hundreds of thousands, migrants and new Canadians cannot stand by
while unconscionable acts of terror and genocide are carried out
against our families and peoples, especially when these crimes are
supported by the Canadian government.
As part of our international duty, we call on all conscientious
working class people and progressive Canadians to realize their
material interests in fighting for the:
Immediate withdrawal of all foreign-based Canadian military and police
personnel, especially in Afghanistan and Haiti;
Halting of Canadian government funding to oppressive governments
especially those in Sri Lanka, Honduras, Israel, the Philippines, and
Colombia;
Non-interference in sovereign nations and the right of all nations to
choose their own representatives;
The decriminalization of national liberation movements, organizations,
and individuals associated with them, as the right to national self-
determination is an internationally recognized right; and
The scrapping of all “free-trade” agreements that are harming workers
all throughout the work to the benefit of capital.
In this time of crisis, M1M calls on all working class people to step
up their level of organization and agitation in their neighbourhoods,
workplaces, schools, community centers, religious institutions, and
anywhere else where we can begin to unite working class and
progressive people.
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)
DEFEND THE RIGHTS AND GAINS OF ALL WORKING PEOPLE!
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION!
LET MAY DAY BE A RALLYING CALL FOR ALL WORKERS AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE IN
CANADA!
For more information visit: www.basicsnews.ca
The May 1st Movement (M1M) is a coalition of working class
organizations and progressive allies, with representation from various
sectors, including organized labour, youth, media, women, human
rights, migrant and various ethnic communities.
Participants of the Coalition:
Barrio Nuevo
Migrante-Ontario
Bayan Canada
Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for the Relief of Tamils
BASICS Free Community Newsletter
Progressive Nepali Forum of the Americas
Victor Jara Cultural Group
CASA Salvador Allende
Migrant Women’s Coordinating Body
Tamil Youth Organization
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1000A
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) – Toronto
Canada-El Salvador Action Network (CELSAN)
Sponsored By:
CUPE 3902
CUPE 4308
CUPE 1281
United Food and Commercial Workers (National)
Latin American Solidarity Network
Canadian Salvadorian Association Network of Ontario
MataDanze
Justicia for Migrant Workers
Media Sponsors:
Basics Community Newsletter
CHRY 105.5FM
Radio Voces Latinas CHHA 1610AM
Periodico AmericaLatina
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M1M RALLY & MARCH:
Working class people unite on May Day!
Working-class people unite on International Workers 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)
Featuring music from: Wasun | Amber O'Hara | Melodic | Sandy Paredes |
Lal | Rising Records Entertainment | Soul Sound Experience
- family friendly event
- activities for children
- delicious food and drinks*
*All sales from food and beverages will go to Chile Earthquake Re-
construction efforts through the Caravan of Hope (caravanofhope.ca).
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=241464840529&v=wall&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=112383948779316&ref=ts
For more information visit: www.basicsnews.ca
* * * * *
WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE UNITE ON INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY!
Statement of the May 1st Movement (M1M) Coalition
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.
Every day, fresh attacks are being made against working people in
Canada – the unionized and non-unionized, migrant workers and the
undocumented. “Neoliberal” capitalism is launching attacks on every
section of the working-class to keep profits up – cuts to social
expenditures, pension raids, attacks on wages, corporate tax cuts; and
this system offers no alternative to the relentless destruction of the
environment.
The May 1st Movement declares that our struggles as working class
migrants and the children of working class migrants – with or without
status – requires a unity with the rest of the working class in
Canada. We also declare our support for the indigenous peoples and
nations fighting to exercise their right to self-determination over
their lands being occupied and plundered by the Canadian state,
extractive industries, and “developers”.
Finally, the struggle of migrants does not stop at attaining full
recognition as Canadian citizens. As Tamil Canadians demonstrated
heroically throughout 2009 with cross-country mobilizations of
hundreds of thousands, migrants and new Canadians cannot stand by
while unconscionable acts of terror and genocide are carried out
against our families and peoples, especially when these crimes are
supported by the Canadian government.
As part of our international duty, we call on all conscientious
working class people and progressive Canadians to realize their
material interests in fighting for the:
Immediate withdrawal of all foreign-based Canadian military and police
personnel, especially in Afghanistan and Haiti;
Halting of Canadian government funding to oppressive governments
especially those in Sri Lanka, Honduras, Israel, the Philippines, and
Colombia;
Non-interference in sovereign nations and the right of all nations to
choose their own representatives;
The decriminalization of national liberation movements, organizations,
and individuals associated with them, as the right to national self-
determination is an internationally recognized right; and
The scrapping of all “free-trade” agreements that are harming workers
all throughout the work to the benefit of capital.
In this time of crisis, M1M calls on all working class people to step
up their level of organization and agitation in their neighbourhoods,
workplaces, schools, community centers, religious institutions, and
anywhere else where we can begin to unite working class and
progressive people.
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)
DEFEND THE RIGHTS AND GAINS OF ALL WORKING PEOPLE!
DEFEND THE RIGHT TO STRUGGLE FOR LIBERATION!
LET MAY DAY BE A RALLYING CALL FOR ALL WORKERS AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE IN
CANADA!
For more information visit: www.basicsnews.ca
The May 1st Movement (M1M) is a coalition of working class
organizations and progressive allies, with representation from various
sectors, including organized labour, youth, media, women, human
rights, migrant and various ethnic communities.
Participants of the Coalition:
Barrio Nuevo
Migrante-Ontario
Bayan Canada
Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for the Relief of Tamils
BASICS Free Community Newsletter
Progressive Nepali Forum of the Americas
Victor Jara Cultural Group
CASA Salvador Allende
Migrant Women’s Coordinating Body
Tamil Youth Organization
United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1000A
Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) – Toronto
Canada-El Salvador Action Network (CELSAN)
Sponsored By:
CUPE 3902
CUPE 4308
CUPE 1281
United Food and Commercial Workers (National)
Latin American Solidarity Network
Canadian Salvadorian Association Network of Ontario
MataDanze
Justicia for Migrant Workers
Media Sponsors:
Basics Community Newsletter
CHRY 105.5FM
Radio Voces Latinas CHHA 1610AM
Periodico AmericaLatina
--
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