May Day

Make May Day A Day Of Resistance

April 19, 2017 Staff, www.socialistworker.org Resist! May Day, Protests

By Staff of Socialist Worker - HERE IN Seattle, the favored topic of small talk has shifted from the clouds and rain to the president and his incompetence. Students at my high school have formed relationships with teachers on that basis alone, and it seems there is no longer any political division between instructor and student. This general agreement is important for its own sake, but especially for the potential it creates. As high school students and teachers find common ground in their opposition to Donald Trump, the two will see new opportunities to stand up for one another politically. The first such opportunity is less than a month away. Seattle teachers recently voted on whether to strike for the day on May Day, but failed to get the endorsement of the union, leaving an opening for high school students to carry on their struggle. On May Day, Seattle students should walk out of their schools and show support for their teachers' efforts. Last month, members of the Seattle Education Association (SEA) voted on whether to strike on May 1. The strike would have been a platform for teachers to demand better funding of public schools--an increasingly important issue in the age of Trump's Education Secretary Betsy DeVos-- and to voice support for the rights of immigrant and Muslim students.

Hundreds Of Thousands Of Workers Will Strike May 1

April 3, 2017 Cora Lewis, www.buzzfeed.com Resist! May Day, Strikes, Workers

By Cora Lewis for BuzzFeed News - Members of SEIU United Service Workers West protest during May Day demonstrations at Los Angeles International Airport in 2012. Gus Ruelas / Reuters Since Donald Trump’s election, there has been no shortage of wildcat strikes by groups disproportionately affected by his administration’s policies. But this time around, organized labor is driving the effort. According to a coalition of groups leading the strike, more than 300,000 food chain workers and 40,000 unionized service workers have said they will walk off the job so far. Huerta’s union chapter represents tens of thousands of workers, including janitors, security officers and airport staff, while the Food Chain Workers Alliance, which represents workers throughout the food industry, says hundreds of thousands of its non-unionized members have committed to striking.

Protest Groups Uniting As ‘The Majority’ For Actions On May Day

March 31, 2017 Aaron Morrison, www.mic.com Resist! Class Struggle, May Day, Multiracial Unity

By Aaron Morrison for Mic - Activist groups are uniting as a broader coalition they've dubbed "The Majority," an idea inspired by the Movement for Black Lives — a collective of organizations in the Black Lives Matter movement — organizers first shared with Mic on Thursday. More than 50 partners representing black, Latino, the indigenous, LGBTQ, refugees, immigrants, laborers and the poor will collaborate from April 4 through May 1, International Worker's Day, when they'll launch massive protests across the country. The action will "go beyond moments of outrage, beyond narrow concepts of sanctuary, and beyond barriers between communities that have much at stake and so much in common,"...

May Day Mass Action Will Be Historic ‘Strike From Below’

March 30, 2017 Sue Sturgis, www.facingsouth.org Resist! Immigration, May Day, Muslim, Strikes

By Sue Sturgis for Facing South - Hundreds of thousands of service workers across the South and the rest of the nation are planning to take part in a general strike for human rights and equality on May Day, which marks International Workers' Day. Organizers say the May 1 Strike, which aims to express the collective power of the country's most marginalized workers and to stop attacks by the Trump administration and its corporate allies, is the biggest general-strike organizing effort in the U.S. in over 70 years. "The Trump administration's dangerous attacks against food worker families and all marginalized people continue a centuries-long history of oppression," the organizers said in a statement.

Making May Day A Day For Solidarity

March 29, 2017 Nicole Colson, www.socialistworker.org Strategize! May Day, Solidarity, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Nicole Colson for Socialist Worker - The Women's Marches held the day after he took office were the largest single day of demonstrations in U.S. history. Thousands of people participated in a new form of protest--the airport occupation--in response to his Muslim ban. There are two major environmental justice mobilizations coming up in in April. And now, with the Trump regime ramping up deportations and raids across the country, immigrant rights activists and organizations are joining with labor and other forces to turn this year's May Day into a show of solidarity and struggle against Trump's agenda. The urgency of making a stand is clear after the White House shifted the deportation machine into high gear.

May Day: Seattle Educators Moving Closer To Strike

March 23, 2017 Calvin Priest, www.counterpunch.org Resist! Education, May Day, Seattle, Strikes

By Calvin Priest for Counter Punch - On Monday, March 13, the Seattle Educators Association (SEA) took a big step toward May 1 strike action in voting by an overwhelming majority in favor of a one-day strike at their Representative Assembly. The resolution will now require approval by the union’s full membership. The vote was a response to more than a decade of unconstitutional underfunding of public education in Washington State. But it was also a part of a series of recent moves by Seattle unions preparing to take action on May Day against the vicious right-wing agenda of Donald Trump. In February, WFSE Local 304, representing workers at Seattle community colleges, passed a resolution supporting strike and protest action on May 1.

May Day Rallies Worldwide Demand Workers’ Rights

May 2, 2016 Andrea Germanos, www.commondreams.org Resist! May Day, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Andrea Germanos for Common Dreams - Workers on Sunday marked May Day across the globe with rallies in cities from Paris, to Istanbul, to Manila. Some of the protesters faced violence from police. According to reporting by Reuters,"Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon and detained more than 200 people after scuffles broke out at May Day celebrations in Istanbul and some anti-government protesters tried to breach a ban on access to the main Taksim square." As France's parliament is weighing a bill that would erode worker protections, "hundreds of angry youths on the sidelines of a May Day labor rally hurled stones and wood at police in Paris...

Anarchist And Intersectional Feminist Who Inspired May Day

May 1, 2016 Laura Flanders, www.commondreams.org Educate! Anarchism, Feminism, May Day, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Laura Flanders for Commondreams. Workers shouldn't strike and go out and starve, but strike and remain in, and take possession, said Lucy parsons. Lifelong partner of Albert parsons, one of the American Labor Leaders, most associated with the founding of the American May Day tradition. lucy_parsonsLucy Parsons was of Mexican American, African American, and Native American Descent. She was born into slavery and she was an intersectional thinker and activist a century before the term was coined. Her work after emancipation led her directly into conflict with the Ku Klux Clan and into a lifelong partnership with radical typographer and organizer Albert Parsons.

Incomplete, True And Wonderful History Of May Day

May 1, 2016 Peter Linebaugh, www.roarmag.org Educate! May Day, Wars and Militarism, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Peter Linebaugh of Roar Magazine. The Soviet government paraded missiles and marched soldiers on May Day. The American government has called May 1 “Loyalty Day” and associates it with militarism. The real meaning of this day has been obscured by the designing propaganda of both governments. The truth of May Day is totally different. To the history of May Day there is a Green side and there is a Red side. Under the rainbow, our methodology must be colorful. Green is a relationship to the earth and what grows there-from. Red is a relationship to other people and the blood spilt there among. Green designates life with only necessary labor; Red designates death with surplus labor. Green is natural appropriation; Red is social expropriation. Green is husbandry and nurturance; Red is proletarianization and prostitution. Green is useful activity; Red is useless toil. Green is creation of desire; Red is class struggle. May Day is both.

What Is Your Life Worth & May Day Paint, Spray And March

April 30, 2016 Eleanor Goldfield, www.occupy.com Resistance Report Corporations, May Day

By Eleanor Goldfield for Occupy - This week, regulation is the name of the game if you want to hold corporations accountable and keep them in line with the interests of people and planet. Sadly, there's one serious hurdle standing between us and regulation, and it has to do with how much your life is worth. Next up, find a May Day action near you – and while you're at it, paint and spray your message of change in supervillain coup de art. But first, here's my 2 cents – on 20 dollars.

New York City Protesters Rally On May Day For Freddie Gray

May 4, 2015 Matt Surrusco, www.truth-out.org Resist! Baltimore, May Day, New York City (NYC), police brutality

Hundreds of people, including union members, students, socialists, immigrants and others, gathered in New York City's Union Square on May 1, International Workers Day, calling for a higher minimum wage of $15 an hour, justice for unarmed people killed by police and an end to deportation and detention of undocumented immigrants. This year, May Day protesters in New York brought calls for an end to systemic racism and support for police accountability for the killing of unarmed civilians, especially people of color, to the forefront of the annual labor march and rally, with "Black Lives Matter" and the names of people killed by police written on signs, and chants calling for justice for the victims of police brutality or promises to "shut it down," a mantra of the Black Lives Matter movement.

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