May Day in Detroit, MI

[Weidt]

International Workers' Day
MAY DAY 2004

Saturday, May 1, 2004
Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan

http://www.maydaymi.org

Help organize May Day, the International Workers' Day, the first and real Labor Day, at Belle Isle Park in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday, May 1, 2004. We need worker and progressive groups, organizations, parties and unions to join us in celebration of May Day as a day of mass action by, for and of working people.

A May Day Planning Committee is being established and will meet in mid-April to organize the event (music, speakers, etc.). If your organization would like to join this Committee, please e-mail [email protected]

We must join in solidarity to demand universal health care and education!

We must join in solidarity to demand jobs, a living wage and a return of the eight hour work day!

We must join in solidarity to confront the right-wing crusade against queer working people!

We must join in solidarity to defend against the assaults on affirmative action that affect working women and people of color!

We must join in solidarity to end war and imperialism that has already claimed the lives of thousands of working people worldwide!

[Bolschewik]

Weidt, I'll see what I can do.

I live in Southfield and pretty interested.

I disagree with such an ultra leftist approach, as clearly noted in your third and fourth rally points. There are tons of unionized workers that are fed up with the direction this country is and was going in the past 15 years or so. I don't think social issues should be mentioned at all here.

[SittingBull47]

damn. too far away.

Good luck to everybody working for May Day, though.

[Dune Dx]

Im replying to this just so it gets to the top page on new posts cos it looks pretty important.

Sadly a different contenent is a bit too far for me

[Marxist in Nebraska]

May Day definitely needs to be revived here in the U.S. I wish the best of luck to Weidt and anyone else working to restore the International Labor Day.

The first May Day, back in 1886, was a protest demanding an eight-hour day. Sadly, that is still a viable rallying cry today... the more things change, the more they stay the same as the cliche goes...

I personally disagree with Bolshewik. I see no problem in addressing social questions in our materials. Why would someone especially oppressed in our society, like people of color or homosexuals (to use the same examples used above), bother to fight for any cause that will not directly improve their unacceptable position?

Ethically, communists need to fight for the oppressed--and especially for the most oppressed. Practically, what the hell kind of mass movement can we put together if we exclude several groups by omitting them from our propaganda?