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MaY-DaY
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event notice 
Thursday April 30, 2009 08:59
by bex - m d c
rglynch at gmail dot com
0877560872
Mayday event 2009
This Friday May First is Mayday ! SO EVERYBODY TAKE TO THE STREETS :)
Throughout history, the first of May has been a day for celebrating life, nature and the welcoming in of the summer and the hope for a bright future. In our modern times, Mayday is synonymous with International Workers' Day or as Labor Day in the United States. Mayday is also a distress signal. This year's MayDay will attempt to bring all these elements together in a transnational demonstration of solidarity with those working in precarity throughout Europe!
This grassroots movement now draws three hundred thousand demonstrators in twenty E.U. cities (and Tokyo!)
We are sending out our Mayday distress symbol and invite everyone to fight for social rights: Euros for the precarious, not for bankers! Although Mayday is steeped in tradition, It is also ever changing as a new and progressive event which will allow us to celebrate the coming of a future for us and our children where the focus is on freedom from repression, basic reliable income, culture, housing and person to person democracy for all. We hope that this will be the largest and most successful MayDay to date as a direct challenge of the misapropriation of imaginary funds which has allowed the few lead the many into recession. We believe that the stock market has shown that only one card needs to fall for the whole castle to collapse and we hope to imbue our supporters with this belief that we can, and must, accomplish change. MayDay, MayDay make them pay!
Gathering on Friday the first of May at 7p.m. Outside Connolly Hall, Cork. Music, Fun and Solidarity!'
Comments (3 of 3)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3We have a day off because the banks are on holiday? I don't think so ...
Its time to regain control, to reshift the focus, to get it back into perspective. Erase the bank holiday.
Let's have the pure and simple Public Holiday, or perhaps Citizens Holiday.
The way to end being a servant is to stop serving.
Petition your TD, your councillors, everyone you can think of. Change won't come unless we make it.
I agree with the last poster that "Change won't come unless we make it." , but all this business about contacting your councillors and tds , isn't that handing over the responsibility for making change to other people ?
The fact that no Mayday march took place in Dublin this year can only mean that the trade union and labour leaderships in this country have abdicated responsibility for mobilizing workers at a time when workers' conditions are under threat of decimation as a result of the financial crisis .
The time has surely come for workers to take the initiative themselves for organizing such events - at grassroots level . For next year I'd like to see the mayday celebration renamed : it should be called a strike .
"The fact that no Mayday march took place in Dublin"
There is a Mayday March in Dublin this year, it's on this saturday, see the link below. This isn't to say that the usual lack lustre attendance and promotion of it as well as the fact it's not held on May 1st itself or even the mayday weekend most of the time isn't highly problematic. In fact, imo it's part of the problem with it being so badly attended and dispirited, you'd almost think it was done on purpose.
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