[van-announce] FW: Vancouver: May 1 March & Rally

[Grassroots Women]

Pls. distribute widely. Thanks.

 

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Grassroots Women

1115B E. Hastings (entrance on Glen)

Vancouver, BC V6A 1S3

web: www3.telus.net/grassrootswomen

email: HYPERLINK "mailto:grassrootswomen at telus.net"grassrootswomen at telus.net

phone: 604-682-4451 (fax same #, please call first)

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From: ilps_canada [mailto:ilps_canada at shawcable.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:09 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Vancouver: May 1 March & Rally

 

Reclaim May 1st, International Worker’s Day!
March for workers’ rights! 

May Day March & Rally
Thursday, May 1, 2008
5:30 pm || Gather at Clark Park at Commercial Drive and East 14th
6:00 pm || May Day March
Organized by the May Day Organizing Committee

With imperialist globalization, workers around the world are facing
undeniable attacks. 

Hard-won wages, benefits and social services are now being cruelly eroded as
Canada joins other imperialist countries in forcing through policies of
labour flexibilization in the name of ‘free trade’ and the neo-liberal
agenda.

Even more vulnerable and under attack are Canada’s immigrant, migrant, and
undocumented workers whose numbers in Canada are only increasing and whose
exploitation is intensifying. Working class women are experiencing increased
exploitation as cuts to welfare, daycare and other public services push
women into the low-wage workforce, while they continue to perform unpaid
labour in the home to take care of children and elderly people, and maintain
their families. Youth are also being hard-hit by labour flexibilization and
policies of imperialist globalization that are conditioning young people
with ideas like “life-long learning” in the face of rising tuition fees
while preparing youth to accept low-paying, unstable and perpetual contract
work.  Immigrant and migrant youth end-up in low-wage work at fast food
chains or in factories with little to no knowledge about their rights and
protection. With these rapid changes and the increasing use of cheap migrant
and immigrant labour,  racism is being used to divide workers in Canada,
keeping us from seeing our common exploitation and enemy.

It is not surprising that in the last decade, there has been a groundswell
of workers’ and people’s discontent and protest in Canada. In B.C., workers’
have been on the verge of launching general strikes twice in the last two
years. It is urgent, now more than ever, that workers and the oppressed in
Canada stand together in genuine solidarity against these intensifying
attacks of the imperialist system.

Expose & Oppose the exploitation of migrant, immigrant & undocumented
labour!
No to flexible labour!
Build genuine international solidarity against imperialism!

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UPCOMING MAY DAY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE EVENTS:

"Challenging the Myths of Migration, Building workers’ solidarity in Canada"
A critical look at the expansion of Canada's Temporary Foreign Workers'
Program (TFWP)
Community Forum
Sunday, April 6, 2008, 2:00 pm
Kalayaan Centre, 451 Powell Street, Vancouver (between Jackson & Dunlevy
Streets)
Speakers include: SIKLAB-B.C. (Advance the Rights and Welfare of Overseas
Filipino Workers and their Families), Justicia for Migrant Worker, Other
speakers to be announced

"International Workers Day" Cultural Solidarity Evening
Saturday, April 24, 2008
7:00 pm
Rhizome Cafe, Vancouver


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BASIS OF UNITY FOR THE MAY DAY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The May Day Organizing Committee was organized in 2006 by participating
organizations of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS).

We are made up of anti-imperialist, democratic and progressive individuals
and organizations coming together to carry out the following political work:

1. To expose and oppose the heightened neo-liberal attacks on workers in
Canada, including the exploitation and oppression of migrant, immigrant,
undocumented, and indigenous workers

2. To expose and oppose the imperialist nature of Canada, through its
plunder of the third world and particularly its role in the exploitation of
workers from the third world and the forced migration of third world workers
to Canada.

3. To continue our work of reclaiming the militant tradition of May 1 as
International Workers’ Day”.

4. To foster genuine solidarity amongst all workers, whether they be
migrant, immigrant, undocumented, indigenous, or Canadian workers, and all
exploited and oppressed sectors in Canadian society.

5. To continue to build international solidarity among workers and oppressed
people around the world against imperialist globalization, war and plunder.

We welcome and invite any individual or organization who agrees with the
above basis of unity to join the May Day Organizing Committee. Contact
HYPERLINK "mailto:ilps_canada at shawcable.com"ilps_canada at shawcable.com

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International League of Peoples' Struggles (ILPS)
Participating Organizations in Canada
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