[IPSMO] Anti-Colonial Anti-Capitalist May Day Ottawa

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We are sharing this event hosted by Anti-capitalist may day Ottawa: May 
Day 2017. Please share in your networks!

https://www.facebook.com/events/1959900200904910/

May 1st 2017, 3pm - evening, multiple locations (see below).

May Day 2017: Celebrating Anti-Colonial and Anti-Capitalist Struggle

Rally and March
Monday, May 1, starting at 3:00pm
Minto Park, corner of Elgin and Lisgar
This is not a permitted march
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Free Feast
Monday, May 1, starting at 5:30pm
Location TBD
Family friendly
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Make Me Bad May Day Party
Monday May 1, starting at 8:00pm
Cafe Nostalgica
Event Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/266773907066795/
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Anti-Capitalist May Day Ottawa Contact Info:
Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/Anti-Capitalist-Mayday-Ottawa-1704113833180280/
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Description:

We invite everyone to join us for May 1, International Workers' Day. May 
Day is a day to honour workers' efforts to get justice, dignity and 
equality for themselves and their children.

This year, the Canadian government will be spending half a billion 
dollars celebrating the 150th anniversary of confederation, but for 
many, especially Native people, there is nothing to celebrate.

We invite everyone who supports Indigenous self-determination, a 
nation-to-nation relationship, and safety for Indigenous women, girls 
and two-spirited people to join us!

We invite everyone who wants workers to have a living wage, healthy 
workplaces and safe communities to join us!

The rally will start at Minto Park. We will gather there at 3:00pm. From 
there we will be marching through downtown Ottawa.

Confirmed speakers:

1) Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail
2) Brendan Misko
3) Matt Cicero
4) John Fox
5) Dimka Melnik
6) Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)

1) Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail

Jocelyn Wabano-Iahtail is an Ininew Eeyou Eskwayow from the Cree 
communities of Attawapiskat First Nation and Chisasibi First Nation. 
Jocelyn’s Chapan, Great Grandfather Jacob Iahtail, was one of the 
signatories of The James Bay Treaty - Treaty #9 (Made in 1905 and 1906). 
Jocelyn’s Kookum, Grandmother Marguerite Wabano and mother, Mary Lou 
Wabano-Iahtail were two of the recipients of the Indian Residential 
School Apology by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the House of Commons 
in 2008.

Jocelyn is a mother to four children, one of which is Special Needs and 
one deceased. She is also a grandmother to a granddaughter and grandson. 
Jocelyn is a Medicine Bundle Carrier, Language and Cultural Keeper. She 
is a survivor of Intergenerational Child Warfare Genocide and Missing 
and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Jocelyn survived a vicious 
attack that claimed the life of her daughter, Nitayheh, on November 
13th, 2001. It is the Heart that journeys in these moccasins that has 
made her a loud and persistent activist.

Jocelyn has worked as a teacher, administrative assistant, patient 
health care services, interpreter, navigator, cultural educator, 
frontline worker for non-profit organizations and consultant.

Jocelyn and her family are the founders of Wabi’s Village: A Community 
of Hearts. Wabi’s Village is a Grassroots Non-Governmental Organization 
(NGO) based on the principles of Ininew Eeyou Indigenous Knowledge.

2) Matt Cicero

Matt Cicero is an organizer, artist, writer and anarchist. He is poor, 
disabled and a ritual abuse survivor. He has been targeted and 
brutalized by the police as a poor, disabled person and as an activist, 
as well as being imprisoned for his activism. He is most active doing 
Indigenous solidarity and prison abolition organizing.

He blogs at https://stonesandsticksandwords.wordpress.com/

5) John Fox

John Fox grew up in Wikwemikong FN’s on Manitoulin Island. His education 
consist of attending a law and security program in Thunder Bay, Ont. 
John has worked in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation territory as a trainer. 
While there, John worked in the Mobile training area addressing the 
youth suicide epidemic.
John is a highly skilled facilitator, he worked in various capacities 
such as a treatment counselor, a cultural coordinator and youth 
clinician.

John is a survivor of the 60s scoop and he has lobbied for the Missing 
and Murdered Aboriginal women Inquiry. John now mentors youth people to 
take responsibility for self,reach goals and work hard for where they 
need to be in life. John is a substance free person and has been this 
way for 31 years.

4) Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)

Many CUPW members work for Canada Post as letter carriers, rural and 
suburban mail carriers, postal clerks, mail handlers and dispatchers, 
technicians, mechanics and electricians.

But CUPW doesn’t just represent postal workers. We also represent 
cleaners, couriers, drivers, vehicle mechanics, warehouse workers, 
printers, emergency medical dispatchers and other workers in the private 
sector.

CUPW is a democratic union. Our members elect all representatives, set 
the priorities for bargaining, and have the final say on contract 
demands and settlements. We are proud of our history and the 
achievements of our members.
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Anti-Capitalism is opposed to the capitalist economic system, which 
thrives on greed and the exploitation of workers, poor people, and the 
natural world. Anti-capitalists want a world where everyone has food, 
clothes and shelter.

Anti-colonialism is opposed to the colonial system, which thrives on the 
past and present theft of the lands of Indigenous peoples’ and the 
genocide of Indigenous people. Anti-colonialists want sovereignty and 
self-determination for Indigenous people and nations.

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An anti-capitalist and anti-colonial analysis of Canada’s 150th 
anniversary

May Day was born out of militant working class struggle. First declared 
by the 2nd International to commemorate the Haymarket Affair of May 
1886, it is celebrated around the world as International Workers Day—not 
just in the centres of capital, but also in the peripheries (the 
so-called "Third World") where the contradictions between the exploiting 
class and the exploited are most often at their sharpest.

This year, Canada will be celebrating its 150 years of confederation. 
This is a celebration of Europe’s colonial expansion into Indigenous 
lands, a celebration of all that is settler colonialism and its 
genocidal policies against the native peoples that continue to this day

The ruling class tries to drive the idea that the foundation of Canada 
was a positive thing and an identity worth rallying around for the 
working class, for immigrants and even for Indigenous peoples. But their 
celebration of settler nationalism can only serve to obscure the 
systematic land theft, and the genocide, impoverishment, and racism 
against the Indigenous peoples, and can only divide the working people 
from their nationally oppressed native sisters & brothers, and serve 
capital in its ideological offensive against both indigenous and working 
class consciousness.

The struggle of the Indigenous peoples to break the chains of 
colonialism and imperialism, for liberation and self-determination, is 
intertwined with the struggle of the working class for emancipation. In 
Ottawa, we propose to celebrate this year’s International Workers’ Day 
as an Anti-Colonial Anti-Capitalist May Day, in celebration of the joint 
struggle and the unity of the native people and the working people of 
this colonized land of Canada.

The general and deepening crisis of imperialism, which is manifested in 
a state of permanent war against the Indigenous nations, racialized 
people, Muslims, and postcolonial countries, and against workers and 
their unions and political organizations, has found further expression 
and escalation in the election of a fascist to the office in the U.S., 
and a demagogue as Canada’s Prime Minister.

These crises and wars call for the broadest unity and solidarity between 
the native people, the labour, anti-war, women, 2SLGBTQ+, student and 
environmental movements, and all revolutionaries & progressives fighting 
for a better world.

Let our anti-capitalist May Day be anti-colonial and anti-imperialist.

VICTORY TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE!
VICTORY TO THE WORKING CLASS!

Initiative of the Revolutionary Communist Party

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1er Mai 2017: Célébrons la lutte anti-coloniale et anti-capitaliste!

Nous reconnaissons et réaffirmons que Ottawa, et toute la région du 
bassin versant de l’Outaouais, est le territoire volé de la nation 
algonquine.

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Rassemblement et manif
Lundi, 1er mai, à partir de 15h
Parc Minto, à l’intersection Elgin et Lisgar
Manif sans permission
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Festin gratuit
Lundi, 1er mai, à partir de 17h
Lieu à confirmer
Événement familial
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Party “Make Me Bad May Day”
Lundi, 1er mai, à partir de 20h
Café Nostalgica (601 rue Cumberland)
Page d’événement: https://www.facebook.com/events/266773907066795/
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Pour contacter 1er Mai Anti-Capitaliste Ottawa:
Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/Anti-Capitalist-Mayday-Ottawa-1704113833180280/
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1er Mai 2017

Nous vous invitons tous et toutes à nous rejoindre ce 1er Mai, la 
Journée Internationale des Travailleurs et des Travailleuses. Le 1er 
Mai, nous rendons hommage au long combat pour la justice, la dignité et 
l’égalité menée par la classe ouvrière pour elle-même et pour ses 
enfants.
Cette année, le gouvernement canadien va dépenser des centaines de 
millions dans les célébrations du 150e anniversaire de la confédération, 
mais pour beaucoup de gens, surtout pour les autochtones, il n’y a pas 
grand-chose à célébrer.
Nous invitons toutes les personnes qui appuient l’auto-détermination 
autochtone, les relations de nation à nation, et la sécurité pour les 
femmes, les filles et personnes bi-spirituelles autochtones, à venir 
avec nous!

Nous invitons toutes les personnes qui veulent que les travailleurs et 
travailleuses aient un salaire décent, des lieux de travail sains et des 
communautés sécuritaires à venir avec nous aussi!
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Le rassemblement débutera au Parc Minto. Nous nous réunirons à 15h, et 
de là nous marcherons à travers le centre-ville d’Ottawa.

Plus de détails à suivre
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L’anti-capitalisme s’oppose au système économique capitalisme, qui est 
basé sur la cupidité et l’exploitation des travailleurs et 
travailleuses, des pauvres et du monde naturel. Les anti-capitalistes 
veulent un monde où tous et toutes jouissent de nourriture, de vêtements 
et de logement.
L’anti-colonialisme s’oppose au système colonial, qui est basé sur le 
vol passé et présent des territoires des peoples autochtones et sur le 
génocide de ces peuples. Les anti-colonialistes veulent la souveraineté 
et l’auto-détermination des peuples et des nations autochtones.
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Une analyse anti-capitaliste et anti-coloniale du 150e du Canada

Le 1er Mai est né du combat militant de la classe ouvrière. Déclaré pour 
la première fois par le Deuxième Internationale pour commémorer le 
massacre de Haymarket Square à Chicago de Mai 1886, il est depuis 
célébré à travers le monde comme Journée Internationale des Travailleurs 
et des Travailleuses – et ce, non seulement dans les centres du capital 
mais aussi dans les périphéries (le soi-disant « Tiers-Monde »), là où 
les contradictions entre la classe qui exploite et la classe exploitée 
sont souvent plus aiguisées.
Cette année, le Canada célèbre les 150 ans de la confédération. Ce n’est 
rien d’autre que la célébration de l’expansion coloniale européenne sur 
les terres autochtones, la célébration du colonialisme de peuplement et 
des politiques génocidaires perpétrées contre les peuples autochtones 
jusqu’à aujourd’hui.

La classe dirigeante essaye de faire passer l’idée comme quoi la 
fondation du Canada a été positive et constitue une identité autour de 
laquelle la classe ouvrière, les immigrant.es et même les autochtones 
peuvent se rallier et se retrouver. Mais cette célébration du 
colonialisme de peuplement ne sert qu’à cacher du regard le vol 
systématique des terres, et le génocide, l’appauvrissement et le racisme 
envers les peuples autochtones, et ne peut que diviser le peuple 
travailleur de leurs frères et sœurs de nations opprimées, et sert à 
l’attaque idéologique du capital contre l’éveil des autochtones et de la 
classe ouvrière.

La lutte des peuples autochtones pour briser les chaînes du colonialisme 
et de l’impérialisme, pour la libération et l’auto-détermination, est 
reliée à lutte ouvrière pour son émancipation. À Ottawa, nous vous 
invitons à célébrer cette Journée Internationale des Travailleurs et des 
Travailleuses comme 1er Mai Anti-Colonial et Anti-Capitaliste, pour 
rendre hommage au combat élargi et à l’unité entre les peuples 
autochtones et la classe ouvrière de ce territoire colonisé qu’est le 
Canada.

La crise de l’impérialisme continue de s’approfondir et prend la forme 
d’un état de guerre permanent contre les nations autochtones, contre les 
peuples racisés, contre les musulmans et contre les pays post-coloniaux, 
et aussi contre les travailleurs et travailleuses et leurs syndicats et 
organisations politiques; cette crise s’exprime plus directement 
maintenant avec l’élection d’un fasciste comme président des États-Unis 
et d’un démagogue comme premier ministre du Canada.

Ces crises et ces guerres nécessitent plus d’unité et de solidarité que 
jamais entre les autochtones, la classe ouvrière, les femmes, les 
personnes 2SLGBTQ+, les mouvements étudiants, environnementaux et 
anti-guerre et tous les révolutionnaires qui se battent pour un monde 
meilleur.

Faisons en sorte que notre 1er Mai anti-capitaliste soit anti-colonial 
et anti-impérialiste.

VICTOIRE AUX PEUPLES AUTOCHTONES!
VICTOIRE À LA CLASSE OUVRIÈRE!


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Love and Solidarity,
IPSMO - Indigenous Peoples Solidarity Movement - Ottawa
On stolen Algonquin land
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