All Out for May Day and May 3!

Sunday May 1: International Workers Day!

The increased attacks on both immigrant and non-immigrant workers show the need for the most united, militant action possible on May Day in the U.S.  May Day originated in the U.S. from the struggle of immigrants and other workers who fought and died for the eight-hour workday in 1886 – for the right of all workers to a decent life.

In 2005 May Day was revived in the U.S. with a march in New York City organized by the Million Worker March Movement. In 2006 — as repression of immigrants reached a fever pitch — May Day exploded. Millions poured into the streets throughout the U.S. to demand legalization and rights for all workers. United mass action defeated the racist Sensenbrenner bill. In Los Angeles the “Day without Immigrants” called for no work, no school, no shopping, no selling. Profits dropped at shuttered businesses.

This year May Day is the next nationwide step to push back the union-busting attacks launched in Wisconsin attacking our jobs, communities and even democratic voting rights. In a welcome development the organized labor movement is mobilizing and uniting with the immigrant movement in many areas. Make the banks pay for the global capitalist crisis and imperialist war – not teachers, students, public workers and services in our communities.

May Day – New York City
International Workers May Day
MAY 1st WHERE? UNION SQUARE!
GATHER AT 12:00 NOON AT UNION SQUARE
14th St. & Broadway, Manhattan
MARCH TO FOLEY SQUARE FOR CLOSING UNITY RALLY
Welcoming Clarence Thomas, from ILWU Local 10 that closed the San Francisco and Oakland, Calif. ports on April 4, co-chair of the Million Worker March Movement; and Gilbert Johnson, Pres. AFSCME Local 82 from Milwaukee, Wis.
www.may1.info

People are fighting back from Egypt to Wisconsin, Latin America to New York and everywhere around the world people are demanding: Stop the attacks on working families, organized and unorganized and all working people around the globe!

Demand Jobs, education, housing, union rights and a living wage for all; money for human needs not for war; legalize the undocumented! Stop the deportations

May Day – Los Angeles
International Workers Day rally
Sunday, May 1 at 10:00 am
Olympic and Broadway, Los Angeles
Sponsor: Southern California Immigration Coalition
Contact: call 323-602-3480 or 213-712-0370 or email contact@immigrationcoalition.org
Demand: full legalization for all, now; stop I.C.E. deportations now; no guest worker (aka bracero) program; worker's right to organize; stop 287(g) & "secure communities"

May Day – Milwaukee
WISCONSIN SOLIDARITY MARCH FOR IMMIGRANT AND WORKER RIGHTS!
1:30 PM: Assemble at Voces de la Frontera (5th St. and Washington in Milwaukee)
2:00 PM: March to Veteran's Park
3:00 PM: Rally at Veteran's Park featuring AFL-CIO International Pres. Richard Trumka and Voces de la Frontera Exec. Director Christine Neumann-Ortiz
Demand: Stop Racist Arizona Copycat Law; Defend In-State Tuition for Immigrant Students; Defend Collective Bargaining Rights; Stop Walker's Budget Cuts to Education and Health Care;

May Day – San Francisco
One world, one movement: immigrant rights are workers rights
Stop the attack on all working families and working people around the globe.
Gather: 24th and Mission, 11:30 a.m.; march at noon to 1 p.m. rally at Civic Center
The San Francisco Labor Council endorsed “A day without workers” on May Day 2011 and supports the right of affiliates to engage in work stoppages, sick-outs, and any other solidarity actions on May Day. (http://sflaborcouncil.org) A march to the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. will step off to join the teachers’ union tent city for public education to begin May 9.

May Day – Tucson, AZ
Resist! Stop the attacks on (im)migrants, our youth and all workers! 
Stop the attacks on Ethnic Studies and Public Education
Stop the attacks on (im)migrant Communities
Stop the attacks on public workers --NO union busting
Stop the collaboration between local and federal police
Stop the militarization of the border and the deaths
Stop the deportations
Gather: Greyhound Park (SE corner of 4th Ave and 36th St) 9:00 a.m.; march to 11:30 a.m. rally at Armory Prk (SE corner of 6th Ave and 13th St)
Tucson May 1st Coalition - www.tucsonmay1st.org info@tucsonmay1st.org
Tel: 520.770.1373 or 520.762.6629

In a new effort to revive this workers day of struggle, May Day United has made a coordinated effort to publicize May Day rallies as a “A Day Without Workers” all across the country.
For more MAY DAY actions or to post your own go to www.maydayunited.org
There is information about your legal rights at work at
http://maydayunited.org/legal-support/know-your-rights/

ALL OUT FOR MAY 3!
Defend Education and all Public Services!

3 p.m.: Student and Youth Rally for Education and Public Services
             NC State University Bell Tower -- Raleigh, N.C
4 p.m.: One Voice Rally at NC General Assembly (16 W. Jones St, Raleigh, N.C.)
For more information, please contact Raleigh@fistyouth.org, call 919-604-8167, or visit www.onevoicerally.com for more information.

On Tuesday, May 3, the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE) is organizing a massive rally at the North Carolina General Assembly against deep budget cuts--including a more than $1 billion cut to education and 15,000 layoffs of state workers--that have been proposed by the legislature. Buses are being organized from across the state, and many organizations and coalitions that are working to defend the public sector--unions, students, and community groups--will be out in force. Organizers are expecting between 5,000-10,000 people to be at the demonstration. May 3 will be a major mobilization against the budget cuts and austerity measures.  There has been much discussion among organizations about different actions that may take place that day. The fighting spirit and examples set by workers and students in Wisconsin, New York, Michigan, and elsewhere around the country are providing tremendous inspiration for this demonstration. Students from across N.C. will be o rganizing a rally, beginning at 3 p.m. at the Bell Tower on NC State University's campus, and a march to join the main demonstration at the General Assembly at 4 p.m. If you are able, please make plans to attend this important demonstration to stand with teachers, public workers, students, and all of our communities that are being targeted by these cuts and to fight back against these attempts to dismantle the public sector and balance this crisis on our backs!