[van-announce] VANCOUVER MAY DAY RALLY AND MARCH 2009: People before profiteering

[Grassroots Women]

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People before profiteering: expose the roots of the capitalist economic
crisis, demand solutions for the working-class!

MAY DAY RALLY AND MARCH 2009
In Vancouver
Friday, May 1, 2009
5:00 pm
Start at Vancouver Art Gallery, end at Victory Square


The May Day Organizing Committee invites you to attend:

People before profiteering: expose the roots of the capitalist economic
crisis, demand solutions for the working-class!

• Gather at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Street side, between Hornby
and Howe) at 5:00 p.m.
• March at 5:30 p.m. to Victory Square (corner of Cambie and East Hastings)

Also featuring EVENING CULTURAL CABARET AND BOOK LAUNCH:
• Rhizome Café (317 East Broadway, near Kingsway) at 7 p.m. The cabaret will
feature cultural performances and the launch of a new graphic novel about
the history of May Day.

As the impact of the global financial and economic crisis continues to hit
workers around the world, it is timely that we commemorate and celebrate
International Workers’ Day in the spirit of international solidarity and 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.

Advance workers rights in the workplace and in our communities!

End anti-worker attacks on wages, benefits, and security!
An injury to one is an injury to all!

Workers unite to defend the rights of migrant and immigrant workers and to
strengthen international solidarity!

For more information, please contact the May Day Organizing Committee c/o
Grassroots Women at 604-682-4451 or the Organizing Centre for Economic and
Social Justice at 604-215-2775.

We also welcome endorsements of the May 1 event by organizations.
Please contact us at the numbers above if you wish to endorse our event.

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MAY DAY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

The May Day Organizing Committee was organized in 2006. 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.

Members of the May Day Organizing Committee include: Alliance of People’s
Health, B.C. Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, Bus Riders
Union, Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist), Filipino Nurses Support
Group, Filipino-Canadian Youth Alliance-Vancouver/Ugnayan ng Kabataang
Pilipino sa Canada, FMLN, Grassroots Women, IWW Vancouver, Justicia for
Migrant Workers-BC, People’s Front, Philippine Women Centre of B.C., Public
Service Alliance Canada-Vancouver & District Area Council and SIKLAB-B.C.
(Advance and Uphold the Rights of Overseas Filipino Workers) and Workers'
Communist Party-Iran. 

 

 

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