loveliberate Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 CELEBRATE MAY DAY! International Workers Solidarity! Respect workers' rights! No human being is illegal! STOP the INS raids! We demand: - Legalization with a clear path to citizenship - Restoration of civil rights and liberties, end the Patriot Act - An end to free trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA that benefit corporations at the expense of workers Please Bring Food and Water The Legal Defense Hotline number is 503-234-4518. People should call and report if they witness an arrest or any police misconduct. It is suggested that you write the number on your body because many times people lose the flyer with that number (which will be passed out at the rally) but also they can be taken or thrown away if you're arrested. Place: Meet at the South Park Blocks (SW Park Ave and Mill) Time: Monday May 1 9:30am - Music, dance, and a play 11am - Rally Noon - March 3pm - more music & speeches 4pm - Rally The Coalition that organized these events include the following groups: American Friends Service Committee, Center for Intercultural Organizing, Freedom Socialist Party, Portland Anti-Imperialists, Portland Central America Solidarity Committee, Portland IWW, Portland Jobs with Justice, Radical Women, VOZ:Worker's Rights Education Project, and many more. Portland Workers Celebrate May Day!! Join the Great American Boycott of 2006 International Workers Solidarity • Respect Workers' Rights No Human Being is Illegal • Stop the ICE Raids Portland, Oregon (April 27, 2006) On Monday May 1st beginning at 10am, Portland immigrant rights, labor, environmental, religious, women's rights, indigenous rights, GLBTQ, and other community groups will gather at the South Park Blocks (SW Park and Mill) to celebrate International Workers' Day with music, theater, and speeches, culminating in a march which will begin at Noon. May Day is recognized around the world as a working class holiday, a day of solidarity between workers of all nationalities. The May Day events in Portland are being organized as part of the Great American Boycott of 2006/el Gran Paro Americano 2006. Nationwide, hundreds of thousands are expected to walk out of work and school in solidarity their fellow immigrant workers to demonstrate the invaluable contributions immigrants make to the economy of the United States and to demand an end to anti-immigrant legislation like the Sensenbrenner Bill (HR 4437). Criminalization is not the solution. We call for immigration policy that includes the following: Legalization with a clear path to citizenship, family reunification, and the restoration of civil rights and liberties. We ask each worker to access their situation and if at all possible join us that day. Certainly almost every one can join in economic solidarity and not buy anything that day. Consider this: • Immigrants contribute $7 billion in social security per year; • Immigrants contribute $25 billion more to the U.S. economy than they receive in healthcare and other social services; The Coalition that organized these events include the following groups: American Friends Service Committee, Center for Intercultural Organizing, Escuela Magdalena Mora, Freedom Socialist Party, Latino Network/La Red Latina, Portland Anti-Imperialists, Portland Central America Solidarity Committee, Portland IWW, Portland Jobs with Justice, Radical Women, VOZ:Worker's Rights Education Project, and many more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 I'll pass it along to my P-town friends. I love all the local event posting man! I appreciate it. Community networking is so awesome and can be very powerful. I just hosted a vegan potluck in Corvallis tonight. I didn't post it on here because I'm in touch with all of the Corvallis members of the forum and didn't think many would come down from Portland just for a 90-minute potluck, but I'll post it next time because it was a really cool gathering and a new chance at networking within my own community. Let's keep on rocking the Northwest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveliberate Posted April 30, 2006 Author Share Posted April 30, 2006 Here's 2 more events also happening on May Day here in Portland: 1. *From a flyer I found - why haven't I heard about this anywhere else?* "For Those Yet To Come" - 4th Annual Native Film Festival Native American Student and Community Center 7pm: 701 SW Jackson at Jackson and Broadway Monday May 1, 2006 Western Shosone Defense Project Speaker Carrie Dann 2. Mayday Party at IWW Hall For immediate release Contact: Ryan G. (IWW) 503-422-1780 Dan Denvir (PCASC) 971-227-3527 Abby Sewell (Back to Back Café) 503-464-6396 What: The last May Day celebration at the IWW Hall and Back to Back Cafe on Burnside Where: 616 E Burnside When: May 1st, 5:30 PM to late (after the May Day march downtown) Who: entertainment by Government Issue Orchestra, Vanessa Valsako and the Godless Moravians, speakers from the Industrial Workers of the World, the Back to Back Cafe, and the Portland Central American Solidarity Committee This May 1st will be the last May Day celebration for the Industrial Workers of the World and the Back to Back Café on East Burnside. After calling the location home for four years, the radical union and the worker-owned café are being forced to move on. The IWW is an independent, volunteer run labor union. It organizes in all industries using "direct unionism" tactics, educating workers to become organizers at their jobs and in their industries. The Back to Back Café is not run by the IWW but subleases a space from them. The cafe is owned by a collective of six workers and has served as an all ages music venue and a forum for meetings and classes as well as serving cheap vegetarian food, fair trade coffee, and microbrews. Also leasing an office from the IWW is the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC), which is organizing immigrants' rights actions for this year's May Day. The storefront at 616 E Burnside, stood vacant for ten years before the IWW moved in and opened its union hall in 2002. The building was the property of local bar owner Jimmy Mak until fall of 2005, when it was sold. The new owners, who have plans to completely renovate the building, offered to buy the IWW out of its lease. Realizing that they would likely be booted anyway once their lease expired in 2008, the café and IWW decided to accept the offer. In the four years since 2002, Lower East Burnside has begun to change from Skid Row to a new trendy destination street for shoppers and barflies. There are still remnants of the old Burnside, however, especially the immigrant day laborers who wait for work on the corner of 6th and Burnside. The Back to Back's last day of business on Burnside will be May 14. The café will likely be reopening at a new location in Northeast Portland later this summer. The IWW plans to move into a new "worker center" space to be shared with the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC) and other local working class organizations. Their intention is to create a permanent space for the radical left in Portland to meet, strategize, and strengthen the movement for workers' rights in Portland and beyond. May Day, the international workers' rights holiday, has always been a big day for the Wobblies (as the IWW is affectionately nicknamed). This year's celebration on Burnside, after the May Day march downtown will be the biggest yet, with speakers and music by Government Issue Orchestra and Vanessa Valsako and the Godless Moravians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveliberate Posted April 30, 2006 Author Share Posted April 30, 2006 I'll pass it along to my P-town friends. I love all the local event posting man! I appreciate it. Community networking is so awesome and can be very powerful. I just hosted a vegan potluck in Corvallis tonight. I didn't post it on here because I'm in touch with all of the Corvallis members of the forum and didn't think many would come down from Portland just for a 90-minute potluck, but I'll post it next time because it was a really cool gathering and a new chance at networking within my own community. Let's keep on rocking the Northwest! Thanks for spreading the word Robert! I definitely agree with you on networking - we're all in this together! I'd have been happy to spread the word on your potluck - please let me know about upcoming events. I'm always happy to email out info, put up flyers, etc. This time I would not have been able to make it but I'll definitely come down for one sometime! I'll bring my family and probably some friends too. Northwest - where's that? I live in Cascadia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Cool man. Our next Corvallis Vegan Education Group meeting/potluck is on May 20th at 7PM at the Westminster House in Corvallis on 23rd and Monroe. I'll get a flyer made up and available online to print out. NW is where it's at! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveliberate Posted April 30, 2006 Author Share Posted April 30, 2006 Thanks Robert - I'll try to make that! Is there a contact number or email that I can share with folks? All, If any of you will be participating in any of these Portland May Day events and want to meet up - please PM me or otherwise let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert Posted April 30, 2006 Share Posted April 30, 2006 Thanks man, Yeah, you can just e-mail [email protected] for info about our event. I'm the co-host of the group. I don't think I'll make it to the May Day events in Portland because I'll be in Corvallis/Eugene all day that day. But I'll pass it along to others. We'll meet up again soon, and I'll be spending a lot of time in Portland in the near future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveliberate Posted May 15, 2006 Author Share Posted May 15, 2006 Robert, Did you get that flyer online? If so, I'll print it out and stick some up around P-town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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