Family-Friendly event! A permitted Rally & March to celebrate international worker's day.
2 PM - Tabling, music, celebration!
3:30 PM - Rally w/ speakers & prepare to march!
4:30 PM - March!
March route includes City Hall, Wells Fargo, The Justice Center, the Federal Building, Right 2 Dream Too, Pioneer Square, and a return to the Parks Blocks.
Demands:
* 6 hour day, no...
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Family-Friendly event! A permitted Rally & March to celebrate international worker's day.
2 PM - Tabling, music, celebration!
3:30 PM - Rally w/ speakers & prepare to march!
4:30 PM - March!
March route includes City Hall, Wells Fargo, The Justice Center, the Federal Building, Right 2 Dream Too, Pioneer Square, and a return to the Parks Blocks.
Demands:
* 6 hour day, no cut in pay!
* Halt all foreclosures & evictions
* Free childcare & contraception
* End surveillance and repression
* No cuts to public services
* Full citizenship rights for all
* No collaboration between ICE & local police
Wanna help with the March & Rally?
Organizing meetings twice a week:
Saturdays, 1-3pm and Wednesdays 5:30pm
at St. Francis, SE 12th & Oak
or email: maydayoutreach@gmail.com
http://maydaypdx.blogspot.com/
This year's celebration, International Workers Day, May 1st, 2012 will be the combined efforts of a broad swath of the 99%: including The American Federation of Teachers, American Friends Service Committee, Carpenters Local 156, Civil Liberties Defense Center, International Socialist Organization, KBOO, Labor Radio Collective, Laughing Horse, Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlán, Occupy Portland, Oregon New Sanctuary Movement, Painters Local 10, Portland Central America Solidarity Committee, Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition - PIRC, Portland Jobs with Justice, Comite de Solidaridad de Apoyo Mutuo, The Portland Alliance Newspaper & the NW Alliance for Alternative Media & Education (NAAME), UnionResource.org, Veterans For Peace CH72VOZ Workers Rights Education Project, other existing May Day organizations, and new and old groups, organizations, unions, schools, nonprofits, foundations, and everyday people who stand for peace, justice, & freedom on International Workers Day!! Take it to the streets and celebrate!