May 1st
OccupyPeace
Some thoughts from the fringe,
We need to ask the GA to give the Go
Ahead for, and put out a call for May 1, (or whatever date we are doing)
Who has ideas???? Please post them to this thread
Some May 1 Calls for a General Strike
Occupy LA
https://www.facebook.com/occupymayfirst?ref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/occupym1?ref=ts
https://www.facebook.com/events/337068492974144/?ref=ts
http://www.occupymay1st.org/
Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Long Beach, Occupy Riverside and Occupy the Hood
http://october2011.org/blogs/margaret-flowers/may-day-general-strike
Occupy Oakland:
http://occupyoakland.org/2012/01/occupy-oakland-decides-to-participate-in-the-global-general-strike-on-may-day/
Occupy Pasadena
http://www.occupypasadena.org/2012/01/08/occupy-pasadena-general-assembly-call-for-a-general-strike-may-1st/
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Background:
Mayday is an emergency procedure word used
internationally as a distress
signal in voice
procedure radio communications. It derives from the French venez m'aider,
meaning "come help me".
It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by mariners and aviators but in some countries local organizations such as police forces, firefighters, and transportation organizations may also use the term. The call is always given three times in a row ("Mayday Mayday Mayday") to prevent mistaking it for some similar-sounding phrase under noisy conditions, and to distinguish an actual Mayday call from a message about a Mayday call.
SOS is the commonly used description for the international Morse code distress signal (· · · — — — · · ·)
International Workers' Day (also known as May Day) is a celebration of the international labour movement and left-wing movements. It commonly sees organized street demonstrations and marches by working people and their labour unions throughout most of the world. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries. It is also celebrated unofficially in many other countries.
International Workers' Day is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket Massacre in Chicago, when, after an unknown person threw a dynamite bomb at police as they dispersed a public meeting, Chicago police fired on workers during a general strike for the eight hour workday, killing several demonstrators and resulting in the deaths of several police officers, largely from friendly fire. In 1889, the first congress of the Second International, meeting in Paris for the centennial of the French Revolution and the Exposition Universelle, following a proposal by Raymond Lavigne, called for international demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago protests. May Day was formally recognized as an annual event at the International's second congress in 1891
MAYDAY = SOS
Save our S_____________
S__________ over S___________
S__________ or S___________
Standing on Shoulders
Sing our Song
Support our Struggle
Sink or Swim
Solidarity or Servitude
Society or Slavery
Other "S" words:
Society, System, Souls, Sanity, Spring, Source , Support, State, Stockyards,
Selves, Schools, Strike, Serfdom, Solidarity, Smile
May Day = International Workers Day
General Strike
Unemployment Lines
Workers Rights
Global day of action (historically)
Immigrant Rights (A day without immigrants)
Labor movement (A day without the 99%)
Finding our place in history/ sharing our stories
Fairness (8 hour day, child labor laws, etc)
Robber Barons
Corporate Personhood
Maypole, Spring, Rebirth, Rejuvenation
Liberation
Who are We?
The 99%
Workers
Students
Teachers
The Unemployed
Youth
Police/ NOT the police
The General Assembly
Torontonians
Concerned Citizens
The Undocumented
Union Members
Ministers/Rabbis/Congregations/Churches
Nonviolent protesters
Parents
Children
The Dispossessed
Prisoners
Neighbors
Clowns
Defendants
The Disabled
The Mentally Il
The Homeless
Performers
Lawyers
Who Are They
G8
NATO
Politicians
Armies
Institutions
Banks
Mayor 1%
Harper
World Leaders
The Federal Reserve
Corporations
Big Business
The Greedy
The Corporate Media
Monsanto
The Military Industrial Complex
The Prison Industrial Complex
Aldermen
Capitalists
Imperialists
Police
Senators
Oppressors
Owners
Slave Drivers
Managers
Assholes
Puppet Masters
Points of Intervention
Foreclosures/ Evictions
Layoffs/ Unemployment
School Turnarounds
Union Busting/Right to Work
High Tuition Fees
Protesters
for Hire
Treatment of Immigrants/ The Undocumented
Free Speech Battle (Sit Down & Shut Up)
Sweatshops/Worker's Rights
Environmental Pollution
Farmer's Issues (genetic engineering, animal rights)
The Death of the “A Dream”/ The Dream is a Lie
The Prison Industry, Bill C-10 and our tax dollars going to it
Big Box/Chain Stores
War & Defense Spending
Local Offenders we might target in May: McDonalds, Boeing, Waste
Management, Edison International, BP Oil,
L. Martin
Slogans
People Over Profits!
SOS!
This is what democracy looks like!
The people united will never be defeated!
We are the 99%
Wake Up! (Alarm clock imagery, time for change, don't go to work)
From 68 to 2012 our civil rights have gone to hell
What's the solution? Global revolution!
Stop taking orders, start taking over!
Whose streets? Our streets!
Banks got bailed out; we got sold out
Money for jobs and education, not for war and corporations!
Commons not capitalism!
Ideas for graphic design/ imagery
Bullhorn
Defend the Commons
A life preserver in a pool of money
Shoes - how can we fill them?
Collective animals/ swarms (Beehive collective)
Octavian Cadabeschi
They meet at OISE at 5:00, on Mon, and Thurs. 5th floor. They also
have a google group you can join.
Octavian
On Feb 11, 11:28 am, OccupyPeace <sylgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Everyone,
>
> Some thoughts from the fringe,
>
> We need to ask the GA to give the Go Ahead for, and put out a call for May
> 1, (or whatever date we are doing)
>
> Who has ideas???? Please post them to this thread
>
> Some May 1 Calls for a General Strike
> https://www.facebook.com/events/337068492974144/
>
> Occupy LA
>
> https://www.facebook.com/occupymayfirst?ref=ts
>
> https://www.facebook.com/occupym1?ref=ts
>
> https://www.facebook.com/events/337068492974144/?ref=ts
>
> http://www.occupymay1st.org/
>
> Occupy Los Angeles, Occupy Long Beach, Occupy Riverside and Occupy the Hoodhttp://october2011.org/blogs/margaret-flowers/may-day-general-strike
>
>
> Occupy Pasadenahttp://www.occupypasadena.org/2012/01/08/occupy-pasadena-general-asse...
> ________________
>
> Background:
>
> *Mayday* is an emergency procedure word<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedure_word>used internationally as a distress
> signal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_signal> in voice procedure<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_procedure>radio communications. It derives
> from the French<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_phrases_used_by_English_speakers#...>
> *venez m'aider*, meaning "come help me".
> It is used to signal a life-threatening emergency primarily by mariners and
> firefighters <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighters>, and
> given three times in a row ("Mayday Mayday Mayday") to prevent mistaking it
> for some similar-sounding phrase under noisy conditions, and to distinguish
> an actual Mayday call from a message about a Mayday call.
>
> signal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_signal> (*· · · — — — · · ·*)
>
> *International Workers' Day* (also known as *May Day*) is a celebration of
> the international labour movement<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement>and
> left-wing <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics> movements. It
>
> International Workers' Day is the commemoration of the 1886 Haymarket
> dispersed a public meeting, Chicago police fired on workers during a
> general strike for the eight hour workday, killing several demonstrators
> and resulting in the deaths of several police officers, largely from friendly
> congress of the Second International<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_International>,
> meeting in Paris <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris> for the centennial of
> the French Revolution <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution> and
> the Exposition Universelle<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposition_Universelle_%281889%29>,
> demonstrations on the 1890 anniversary of the Chicago protests. May Day was
> formally recognized as an annual event at the International's second
> congress in 1891
>
> Save our S_____________
> S__________ over S___________
> S__________ or S___________
> Standing on Shoulders
> Sing our Song
> Support our Struggle
> Sink or Swim
> Solidarity or Servitude
> Society or Slavery
>
> Other "S" words:
>
> Society, System, Souls, Sanity, Spring, Source , Support, State,
> Stockyards, Selves, Schools, Strike, Serfdom, Solidarity, Smile
>
> General Strike
> Unemployment Lines
> Workers Rights
> Global day of action (historically)
> Immigrant Rights (A day without immigrants)
> Labor movement (A day without the 99%)
> Finding our place in history/ sharing our stories
> Fairness (8 hour day, child labor laws, etc)
> Robber Barons
> Corporate Personhood
> Maypole, Spring, Rebirth, Rejuvenation
> Liberation
>
>
> *The 99%
>
> *G8*
> *NATO
> Points of Intervention*
> Foreclosures/ Evictions
> Layoffs/ Unemployment
> School Turnarounds
> Union Busting/Right to Work
> High Tuition Fees
>
> Protesters for Hire
> Treatment of Immigrants/ The Undocumented
> Free Speech Battle (Sit Down & Shut Up)
> Sweatshops/Worker's Rights
> Environmental Pollution
> Farmer's Issues (genetic engineering, animal rights)
> The Death of the “A Dream”/ The Dream is a Lie
> The Prison Industry, Bill C-10 and our tax dollars going to it
> Big Box/Chain Stores
> War & Defense Spending
>
>
> People Over Profits!
> SOS!
> This is what democracy looks like!
> The people united will never be defeated!
> We are the 99%
> Wake Up! (Alarm clock imagery, time for change, don't go to work)
> From 68 to 2012 our civil rights have gone to hell
> What's the solution? Global revolution!
> Stop taking orders, start taking over!
> Whose streets? Our streets!
> Banks got bailed out; we got sold out
> Money for jobs and education, not for war and corporations!
> Commons not capitalism!
>
Laine Newman
Outreach
- Octavian from the Outreach Comittee