May1: May Day - Picket, Rally and Potluck Dinner

[Grant Neufeld]

May Day — Picket, Rally and Potluck Dinner

Wednesday, May 1, 2013
5:00pm until 8:00pm
SW Corner of 10 Street at Memorial Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
and Calgary Area Outdoor Council (CAOC) - 1111 Memorial Drive NW


Picket and Rally - 5:00 pm
Gather at the intersection of 10 Street and Memorial Drive NW (South West Corner)

Potluck and Get Together will follow the Picket
Inside the Calgary Area Outdoor Council (CAOC) - 1111 Memorial Drive NW


May Day 2013 is just one year after the Conservatives were re-elected in Alberta vowing to increase funding for education and health care and social programs. Now the government is imposing its austerity agenda, showing that it came to power through electoral fraud. Already, workers, youth and students, seniors and others are in action to oppose this wrecking and discussion is developing as to how governments can be held to account. Right in step with Harper’s anti-worker, anti-social agenda, this government acts as the representative of the rich and the monopolies.

Governments have the responsibility to put the interests of the public in first place not the oil and gas monopolies. Together we can find a way forward.

This year we stood with healthcare workers and professionals, railway workers, federal public sector workers, and Brooks packinghouse workers, fighting for their rights. We also stood with seniors care workers across the province. We joined all those forces saying No means No to private, for profit health care and seniors care. We took the stand that the struggle of First Nations in their fight to affirm their hereditary, treaty and constitutional rights, and against the anti-social agenda and laws of the Harper government, is one struggle. We also stood with the families of the missing women. We continue to stand with the pipeline and construction workers taking a stand against unsafe conditions, and the energy workers opposing nation wrecking and job loss created by shipping our raw resources out of the country without refining them here.

We have continued to support workers across the country who are fighting to repeal the EI reforms, postal workers facing untenable working conditions and opposing Canada Post’s privatization, and steel workers, forestry workers and all workers fighting for the right to pensions and pensions for all.

We continue to find ways to bring justice to our youth including those in the forefront of the fight of the faculty, staff and students fighting the provincial government’s assault on the right to post-secondary education. We also keep working to find ways to bring justice for our seniors, as well as peoples everywhere suffering war and occupation, or under the constant threat of aggression.

Workers and their allies who have been fighting in the past year or see fights in their sector coming this year will have an opportunity at the potluck dinner to update us on what is going on. We will celebrate our struggles and set our course for the coming year.


Organized by a Calgary May Day Committee formed for this purpose.

For further information call Peggy Askin at 403-283-7054 or email mayday...@gmail.com

No Charge for parking at the Calgary Area Outdoor Council. In spite of the construction, parking is permitted and free. You have to be driving east on Memorial Drive to enter the parking lot at CAOC. Parking is also available at various lots within a block of CAOC.