MaY-DaY

cork | rights, freedoms and repression | 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!'