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Wed Apr 26 2017 (Updated 05/01/17)
Shut It Down May 1st: Respect Our Humanity
International Workers' Day Marches and Strikes in Northern California
Oakland Sin Fronteras writes: International Workers' Day has been a time to uplift the struggles, honor the sacrifices, and celebrate the triumphs of working people across the world. As we stand on Ohlone Indigenous land this May 1st, we march in celebration and in resistance with our families, friends, neighbors, and co-workers in our communities, and in solidarity with working people across all borders, to continue the historic struggle against economic and social inequity. With a Trump administration in power, a rising fascist tendency, and growing economic and political oppression of people everywhere, this May Day we march in the spirit of organizing and defending our communities from state violence and capitalist exploitation, and toward liberation and self-determination.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, more than thirty organizations have endorsed the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March and General Strike, and the 2017 Points of Unity, which state: We demand an end to all deportations. We demand respect for all workers’ rights and we defend workers’ efforts to organize. We march against the policing, imprisonment, and surveillance of our communities, and commit to fight the expansions and increased militarization of these systems under the Trump administration.
Read More | Local Actions: San Francisco and Oakland | Berkeley | San José | Fresno | Santa Cruz | All Out for May Day! (event listings for Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Richmond, Concord, Santa Rosa, San Jose, Fresno, and Santa Cruz)
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In the San Francisco Bay Area, more than thirty organizations have endorsed the Oakland Sin Fronteras May Day March and General Strike, and the 2017 Points of Unity, which state: We demand an end to all deportations. We demand respect for all workers’ rights and we defend workers’ efforts to organize. We march against the policing, imprisonment, and surveillance of our communities, and commit to fight the expansions and increased militarization of these systems under the Trump administration.
Read More | Local Actions: San Francisco and Oakland | Berkeley | San José | Fresno | Santa Cruz | All Out for May Day! (event listings for Oakland, Berkeley, San Francisco, Richmond, Concord, Santa Rosa, San Jose, Fresno, and Santa Cruz)
Related Features:
2001: May 2001 Reclaims the Streets in San Francisco | May Day 2001 Explodes Around the World
2002: Resistance, Labor, Spring: May Day week in SF | Berkeley May Day: Police Provocation Disrupts Reclaim the Streets | May Day: Anti-Capitalists and Local Unions March in SF, Oakland
2003: May Day Is Pay Back Day
2004: Bay Area and the World Celebrate May Day 2004 | Bay Area Celebrates May Day
2005: May 1st is May Day
2006: Massive Immigrant General Strike in US, Northern California | Great American Boycott Rocks the Central Coast | May Day Draws Big Crowd in Eureka | May 1st San Jose Immigrants' Rights March Draws 100,000
2007: May Day 2007 National Mobilization to Support Immigrant Workers | May Day 2007 events in Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Salinas | May Day 2007 National Mobilization to Support Immigrant Workers
2008: ILWU Shuts Down All West Coast Ports To Protest War | DASW Calls for End to the Targeting of Immigrants and Latinos to Enlist | Reclaim the Streets In San Francisco | San Francisco State Students Walk Out, Join Workers on May Day | May Day Protests in Arcata | May Day 2008 Actions in Santa Cruz and Watsonville | May Day Becomes an Annual Tradition for Immigrant and Workers' Rights | May Day Revival on Three Fronts: Labor, Immigrant, and Antiwar
2009: International Workers Day Mass Action in Defense of Families, Jobs, Immigrants | May Day Anti-Capitalist Action Strikes Union Square
2010: May Day in the Bay and Beyond | The Santa Cruz May Day Riot
2011: May Day 2011 for Labor and Immigrant Rights
2012: International Workers' Day — May Day 2012
2013: May Day: The Fight for $15 Kicks Off in Oakland
2014: Broad Range of Actions Keeps International Workers Day Diverse in the Bay Area
2015: May Day in the Bay 2015
2016: May Day in Northern California, 2016
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