March and Rally:
http://pdxmayday.blogspot.com/
http://maydaypdx.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
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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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