[mobglob-discuss] (Van) Sat April 29: Commemorating MayDay

[Harsha]

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S.T.A.T.U.S. Coalition presents...

**MAY DAY 2006**
"Long live International Workers' Day!"

Commemorating the International Workers' Struggle and Migrant Labour &
Immigrant workers Resistance...

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SATURDAY APRIL 29 @ 7:30 PM- 1 AM
DINNER WILL BE SERVED. DJ’S AFTER 10 PM.
CAPRI HALL, 3925 Fraser (corner East 23rd Ave)

5-10$ suggested donation- includes dinner
Beer and wine sold during dinner (7:30-8:30 pm) and after performances (10
pm onwards)

Community performers, poets, and multimedia presentations...
* Dhol Nation Academy, Surrey
* Hugo Rojas: Latino musician
* Marcus Youssef: NeWorld Theatre, Vancouver
* Mariam Durrani: Pakistani vocalist
* Mexican Migrant Workers
* Ndidi Cascade: renowned performer who has performed with Femi Kuti,
Michael Franti, Kelis, K-OS, & Kardinal Offishall
* Oscar Villalobos: Latino poet
* Sinag Bayan: Filipino cultural collective
* Wayde Compton: writer, poet, and editor whose books include Performance
Bond and Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature.
* Yyadzehe Gatica: CIPO-RFM in Oaxaca

Child care available - call to request, Wheelchair accessible
Info: saic at resist.ca or 778-552-2099

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S.T.A.T.U.S. is a coalition of community-based organizations in the
Vancouver area belonging to movements and struggles of the people of the
Global South (Asia, Africa, Central and South America, Middle East, the
Caribbean region) and the struggles of such migrant communities in Canada.

On April 29th, 2006 we invite you to join us in remembering the history of
May Day and celebrating the struggles of workers around the world, and in
particular highlighting the struggles of migrant labour and immigrant and
non-status workers in North America.

>From the 1886 strikes for the eight hour day to the mobilization of
hundreds of thousands in the Global South demanding "WTO out!", from the
Haymarket Five to the cries of migrant farm workers and sweat-shop
labourers in North America demanding an end to wage-slave labour - May Day
has become an international day of solidarity between workers.

As colonial projects of the past are carried forward through neo-liberal
policies of the present, the attacks on workers of the Global South and
migrant workers in the North continue to escalate. Modern day slavery
continues through multi-national run sweatshops from South Asia to New
York. Farmers are displaced from their lands in Latin America by free
trade agreements to the fields of the North where they continue to be
exploited through Seasonal Agricultural Worker Programs. Since the days of
the Chinese workers building the Railroad, non-status workers in Canada
continue to fuel the economy by serving as a hyper-exploitable pool of
labour with no rights to services, no ability to assert the right to
minimum-wage, or any other forms of labour protection. Immigrant workers,
particularly immigrant women, in North America continue to face conditions
of deskilling and racism in the workforce leading to an
over-representation in non-unionized, temporary, low-income jobs in the
service sector and garment industry.

Let us share these histories and build solidarity for the future...