Tuesday, April 6, 2010

May Day 2010 -

May Day 2010 -
March and Rally:
http://pdxmayday.blogspot.com/

http://maydaypdx.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

http://www.blogger.com/profile/00275395102790806760

A place for news and updates for Portland's Mayday 2010!

We hope to build on the success
of past marches and bring tens
of thousands of Portlanders into
the street on May 1st to support
worker and immigrant rights and
to raise our collective voices to
demand an economy
that works for everyone!

MAY DAY STATEMENT

International Workers' Day began in the 1880s in the United States with the fight for an eight-hour work day. Today we commemorate the struggle of working people and the poor around the world for economic justice. We stand together against racism, police violence, and attacks on immigrants through ICE raids and detentions. No one is illegal. We aim to stop discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Through solidarity we will reform our immigration, criminal justice, and economic systems to meet human needs. We demand an increase in public spending, not more cuts to education, public transportation, and social services. We demand decent affordable housing, not foreclosures and evictions. We demand single payer health care for all. We demand living wage jobs, full employment, and the restoration of our right to organize workplaces. We can achieve these goals by taxing the rich and corporations instead of bailing them out. We can stop free trade agreements that have outsourced jobs and kept wages low here while creating sweatshops and destroying resources elsewhere. We can end the wars and occupations as well as environmental catastrophes that serve to keep the corporations rich and the people in poverty. Solidarity Forever. Si se puede.

Portland May Day Coalition
1131 SE Oak St. Portland, OR 97214
(503) 233-6787

Supporters and sponsors from 2009

Voz: Workers' Rights Education Project

Sweat Free NW

Southeast Uplift Neighborhood Coalition

SEIU Local 503

SEIU Local 49

http://www.peaceresource.org/

PSU Progressive Student Union

PSU Faculty Association AFT

Portland Social Form

Portland Restaurant Workers Association

Portland Peaceful Response Coaliton

Portland Jobs with Justice

Portland Immigrants Rights Coalition

Portland Community College Faculty Federation

Portland Central American Solidarity Committee

PDX Peace Coalition

PCUN - Northwest Tree Planters and Farmworkers United

Oregon Fair Trade Campaign

MEChA Statewide

May Day facebook group

International Socialist Organization

ILWU Local 5

Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana

American Friends Service Committee

Alliance for Democracy Portland Chapter

90.7 KBOO Radio

Mayday PDX 2006

http://maydaypdx.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html

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