Oakland International Workers Day: Sin Fronteras

May Day Call To Action - On May Day We Vote In The Streets For Justice! March for Legalizaton, Housing, Education, and a Living Wage! No More Raids! No More Deportations! No More Gentrification! No More Police Violence - Black Lives Matter!

May Day Bay Area Regional Rally & March in OAKLAND! Organized by the Bay Area May Day Coalition

Sunday, May 1st
12pm Rally at Fruitvale Plaza
1pm March to San Antonio Park and stay for resource fair and closing program

- Bring food, picnic items, and plan to stay at San Antonio Park!
- This event IS FAMILY FRIENDLY!

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Call to Action: On May Day 2016, We Vote in the Streets for Justice!

We, the Bay Area May Day Coalition, call on all immigrant, labor, and community of color organizations to endorse and mobilize for May 1st and May 2nd, 2016.

In the Bay Area our communities face increased state and economic violence. Only by building a mass movement in the streets that unites all of our struggles can we win our fight for justice and dignity. This May Day, it’s our day to vote! To endorse this call to action, please email Baymaydaycoalition [at] gmail.com. Please also fill out this form:

Points of Unity

UPHOLD WORKER AND STUDENT RIGHTS
We demand respect for all workers’ rights: living wages and employee benefits, and an end to labor trafficking and wage theft. We demand empowering and free education, including ethnic studies programs, and for campus Graduate Student Workers to earn fair wages.

LEGALIZATION FOR ALL UNDOCUMENTED MIGRANTS, IMMEDIATE END TO DEPORTATIONS
We demand a clear path to legalization for all and an end to deportations and detentions. Regardless of skill, background, history of criminalization, sexuality, or gender identity, all migrants and their families have the right to freedom of movement and to live together in dignity.

SUPPORT THE STRUGGLE OF BLACK COMMUNITIES AGAINST STATE VIOLENCE IN THE U.S.
We march for Black Lives, Black Power, and Black Resistance. We support Black-led struggles against state violence and for self-determination. We stand with trans people of color against state violence.

BRING OUR LOVED ONES HOME FROM PRISONS, JAILS, AND DETENTION CENTERS
We march against all forms of state violence, including those inherent to systems of policing, imprisonment, and surveillance that primarily target Black, Brown, and poor communities. We march for the freedom of our loved ones locked in cages and for the families of those killed by the police.

BUILD AND DEFEND STRONG AND HEALTHY COMMUNITIES
We demand access to meaningful work, guaranteed and comfortable housing, free and sustainable healthcare, and environmentally sustainable communities. We demand real solutions to reverse the effects of climate change that endanger us all globally but especially poor people and people of color.

END U.S. MILITARY AGGRESSION & CAPITALIST POLICIES THAT FORCE MIGRATION
More than 200 million people have been forced to leave their country of origin because of war, environmental degradation and unequal trade policies. We say: No More! End US military aid. End US imperialism and support for colonial governments.

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Endorsed by: Endorsed by: Oakland Sin Fronteras, Bay Area May Day Coalition, East Bay Immigrant Youth Coalition (EBIYC), Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA), AROC: Arab Resource & Organizing Center, Anti-Police Terror Project, Oakland Education Association (OEA), AFSCME 3299, School of the Americas Watch – SF (SOAW-SF), School of the Americas Watch – East Bay (SOAW-East Bay), United Educators of San Francisco, Bay Area Latin American Solidarity Coalition (BALASC), Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, East Bay Immigration Interfaith Coalition, Socialist Organizer, Pangea Legal Services, Marcha Patriotica - Colombia, Jewish Voice for Peace - Bay Area, Workers World Party, Alameda Peace and Freedom Party, UAW 2865, Worker's Voice/La Voz de los Trabajadores, Student Labor Committee at UC Berkeley, MEChxA de UC Berkeley, XMC: Xicana Moratorium Coalition, Bay Peace, ASPIRE, 67 Suenos/AFSC SF, AYPAL, Save Midtown, Anakbayan East Bay, Chinese Progressive Association, East Bay Organizing Committee, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Viet Unity, CARECEN SF, Critical Resistance Oakland, Latin American Club at Berkeley City College, Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, Mechxa de CCSF, Migrante Northern California, Anakbayan East Bay, Bayan USA, Gabriela SF, ICHRP- International Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines, League of Filipino Students, CARACEN – SF, Causa Justa – Just Cause