[van-announce] May Day - Migrant Workers Celebration

[megan]

(((please forward widely!)))
  >
  > S.T.A.T.U.S. Coalition presents...
  >
  > **MAY DAY 2006**
  > "Long live International Workers' Day!"
  >
  > Comemorating the International Workers' Struggle,
  > Migrant Labor and Community Resistance...
  >
  > Community performers, food, music, picture and video
  > expositions...
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  >   Saturday, April 29th @ 7:30 P.M.
  >   CAPRI HALL, 3925 Fraser (corner East 23rd Ave)
  >   5-10$ suggested donation
  >   (No one turned away)
  >   Child care available - call to request.
  >   Wheelchair accessible
  >   Alcohol may be sold after 10p.m.
  >   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. >From the bus drivers of Iran to the
  > Filippina live-in care givers in Canada, let us share
  > these histories and build solidarity for the future...
  >
  >
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  > Association of Chinese Canadians for Equality and
  > Solidarity Society, Bolivia Solidarity Committee,
  > Canadian Network for a Democratic Nepal, Consejo
  > Indigena Popular de Oaxaca -Ricardo Flores Magon
  > - Vancouver, Committee for Solidarity with Colombia,
  > Iranian Federation of Refugees, Iranian Refugee B.C,
  > La Surda Latin American Collective, Justicia 4 Migrant
  > Workers B.C, No One is Illegal, Palestine Arab Women’s
  > Association, Palestine Community Center, Salaam
  > Vancouver, South Asian Network for Secularism and
  > Democracy, Vancouver Status of Women
  >
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