[van-announce] April 29: May Day celebration

[Harsha]

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 29 @ 7:30 PM
CAPRI HALL, 3925 Fraser (corner East 23rd Ave)
Dinner will be served.
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.

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

* S.T.A.T.U.S Coalition is: 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