Chicago May Day - Join the fight for the 99%

[Shaun Harkin]

**for immediate circulation - please forward widely**

Chicago May Day 2012 - Join the Fight for the 99%

Assemble for Rally in Union Park @ Noon
March to Federal Plaza @ 1PM
Federal Plaza Rally @ 3PM
http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/331802843528785/
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Join and hear from representatives of Occupy El Barrio; Occupy Chicago; Benedicto Martinez, co-president of the FAT (Authentic Workers Front) of Mexico; Delegation of visiting Japanese and Swedish Trade Unionists; Immigrant Youth Justice League; Rebel Diaz; Teamsters; National Nurses United; Rev. Aaron Watts, cousin of 15-year-old Stephon Watts; killed at home by Calumet City Police; American Muslims for Palestine; Chicago Teachers Union; Armando Robles, workplace occupation leader at Republican Doors and Windows and President of United Electrical Workers Local 1100; Stand-Up Chicago; SEIU; Warehouse Workers for Justice; UNITE HERE; Workers United; Rev. C. J. Hawking, ARISE Chicago; Coalition Against NATO and G8 Agenda of Poverty and War; Woodlawn Clinic Occupiers; Artemio Arreola, Political Director, Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights; United Steelworkers; Chicago Community and Workers Rights members organizing against E-Verify; Elce Redmond, South Austin Coalition; Chicago Jobs with Justice; Rev. Alvaro Araica, Vicar of Our Lady of the Americas Episcopal Church and other leaders of faith; Jennifer Martinez, mother of four whose partner was deported; Communities United Against Evictions and Foreclosures; and many others to say:

We are the 99%!

We are Workers. We are Students. We are Documented. We are Undocumented. We are Occupiers.

They are Detaining Us. They are Shutting Down Our Clinics. They are Closing Our Schools. They are Taking Our Wealth. They are Busting Our Unions.

We Demand:

* Stop the Attacks on Workers and Unions!

* No Cuts, No Austerity, and Tax the 1%!

* Jobs for All and No to E-verify

* End Deportations, End Racism, and End the New Jim Crow

May Day is International Workers Day. From 1886 to 2006 to 2012 - we will honor and celebrate those who have organized and fought for the rights of workers, immigrants and the oppressed. May Day started with the demand for the eight hour day in Chicago and across the United States. Tomorrow we stand in solidarity with workers of the world to re-pledge our commitment to fight for a world based on justice, equality, solidarity, an end to war and dignity for all.

In the words of immigrant and Haymarket martyr, August Spies: Our "struggle is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out. The ground is on fire upon which you stand."

The Chicago May Day March and Rally is organized and supported by many organizations - Join us:

May Day 2012 Organizing Committee, 8^th Day Center for Justice, American Federation of State, County, Municipal Employees District Council 31, American Muslims for Palestine, Albany Park North Park Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice, American Party of Labor, ARISE Chicago, Casa Aztlan, Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE), Central Labor Federation - Chicago, Communities United Against Foreclosures and Evictions, Centro Trabajadores Unidos, Chicago and Midwest Joint Board of Workers United, Chicago Community and Workers Rights, Chicago Fair Trade, Chicago ANSWER, Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda, Chicago Jobs with Justice, Chicago Political Economy Group, Chicago Teachers Union, Coalicion Mexico Americana, Committee For New Priorities, Community Renewal Society, Consejo Hispano, Frento Unido de Immigrantes, Graduate Employees Organization – UIC, Join the Impact Chicago, Iglecia Episcopal Nuestra Senora de las Americas, Illinois Labor History Society, Illinois Single Payer Coalition, Immigrant Solidarity Dupage and Wheaton, Immigrant Youth Justice League, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 21, International Socialist Organization, Justice for Loretta Capeheart Campaign, LGBT Direct Action Organization, Moratorium on Deportations Campaign, Midwest Antiwar Mobilization Network, Midwest Workers Association, Muslim Peace Coalition, National Association of Letter Carriers Branch 11 Chicago, National Nurses United, Northwest Indiana Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, Our Lady of the America Episcopal Church, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Chicago Labor Working Group, Occupy El Barrio, Occupy Naperville, Occupy College of Dupage, Occupy Valparaiso – Indiana, Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission, Progressive Democrats of Illinois, Partido de la Revolucion, Purdue Calumet Campus Social Justice Club, Steelworkers Organization of Active Retirees Chapter 31-9, Service Employees International Union Local 1, Socialist Workers Party, South Austin Coalition,  Stand-Up Chicago, Teamsters Local 743, Teamsters Joint Council 25, Teamsters Local 777, United Auto Workers Region 4, UNITE HERE Local 1, United Electrical Workers Western Region, United Food and Commercial Workers Local 881, United Steelworkers Subdistrict 1 Chicago, United Steelworkers Local 6787 - Northwest Indiana,  We the Immigrants, Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, Iglesia Nuestra Señora de las Américas, South Halsted Unemployed Workers Center, Third Unitarian Church - Oak Park, Ravenswood Presbyterian Church, Mision Catolica Anglicana Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe