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May Day 2008 National Mobilization of Immigrant Rights!

A Day of Action for Immigrant Rights, Thursday, May 1st
Pickets at the RNC and DNC offices on Capitol Hill:
Gather at the Capitol South Metro at 12:30 pm
Mass Rally in Malcolm X Park: 4PM
March through the Community: 6PM
16th and Euclid Sts. NW Washington D.C.
Metro: Columbia Heights
With national elections underway, this is a critical time for advocates of justice for immigrant communities to raise our voices in solidarity. Raids and deportations continue to tear families apart, both across the country and within the Washington metropolitan region. We aim to challenge the climate of fear that these raids have produced and to show that the immigrant community will not be silenced. We invite all organizations committed to the struggle for social justice to join us in making this mobilization a success.

Our demands include:
* Immigration Reform with Justice and Dignity for All
* Stop the Raids, Deportations, and Use of No-Match Letters
* Rescind the Anti-Immigrant Resolution in Prince William County
* Declare the District of Columbia a Sanctuary City for Immigrants
* Establish Workers Centers in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia
* Support the Right of Return for Mount Pleasant Tenants Displaced by the Recent Fire

Sponsored by: The May 1st 2008 Coalition
Including Mexicanos Sin Fronteras, the Metro D.C. Interfaith Sanctuary Network, D.C. Jobs with Justice, the D.C. Alliance for Immigrant Justice, Tenants & Workers Support Committee, Virginia Justice Center, Casa de Maryland, The Virginia Immigrant Peoples Coalition and many others.

To Endorse or Receive More Information, email may1dc2008 (at) gmail.com or call 202-640-5315
 
 
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Statehood Action Forum

Statehood Action Forum
University of the District of Columbia
May 1, 2008 -- 7pm to 9pm

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Celebrate Workers Rights and Struggle
& Work for Statehood
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Join together again with Statehood leaders in a social atmosphere to learn more about DC's history, enjoy some refreshments, listen to
music, and hopefully leave with a few new acquaintances and positive knowledge.

Featuring:
* Dr. Jared Ball and Hip-Hop Genius Head-Roc
Bringing the "Capitol Resistance Tour" ...highlighting the uber-capitalista ways of an elite wealthy class of greedmongers ~ and
the consequences to the working people both in DC and abroad.

* Mary Harding, PhD in labor history at UDC, will speak on the DC Labor Movement, 1930s-1950s: "His Story, Her Story, Our Story"

Our evening's MC is Renee Bowser, who ran a valient campaign for Ward 4 last May 1. www.reneebowser.com

FOR MORE INFO:
web: www.dcstatehoodgreen.org/events
phone: 202-483-4165
 

Other MAYDAY Activities

Other MAYDAY Activities

1) NOON -- End Racism in the DC Fire Dept.

May 1st rally against racism and graft in DC Fire
Department -- For more information:
Rick Tingling-Clemmons 202.397.2277

There will be a rally on May 1, 2008 from 12 noon to 2:00 pm, across the street from the Fire Department Headquarters on Vermont Ave, NW. We will meet at the Civil War Memorial on U Street, NW.

Find out why:
E.R.A.S.E. (End Racism And Stop Exploitation)
abolishracism.blogspot.com/
 

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