May First Marches USA

answer national announces —

International Workers’ Day

Marches, Rallies for

Immigrant and Workers’ Rights

Legalization now!

Stop deportations and attacks on workers!

Jobs, peace and justice for all!

The ANSWER Coalition is supporting and helping to organize the May 1 demonstrations.

Tens of thousands of immigrants and working families of all backgrounds, community organizations, labor unions and many others will take to streets across the United States Sunday to demand legalization for all immigrants and to stop the deportations and attacks on workers.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

10:00am: Gather at the Corner of Olympic & Broadway, Downtown Sponsored by May Day 2011 Los Angeles Coalition, which includes: Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Full Rights for Immigrants Coalition, MIWON, CHIRLA, KIWA, SEIU, LIUNA, AFL-CIO West, National Day Laborer Organizing Network, FIRM, UCLA Labor Center, COFEM, ANSWER Coalition, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, National Lawyers Guild, Islamic Circle of North America, CLUE, Students Fight Back (Pasadena CC, Cerritos, CSU Long Beach, CSU Fullerton, Los Angeles CC, Harbor College, Long Beach CC, Santa Monica College, Comites de Base del FMLN, Danza Azteca Cuauhtemoc, Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional, Frente Unido de Pueblos/United Front of the Peoples of the Americas, Bantay Pilipinas, AF3IRM (Association of Filipinas, Feminists Fighting Imperialism, Re-feudalization, and Marginalization), Committee to Save Casa Mexicana, Corazon del Pueblo, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Echo Park Community Coalition, Alliance for Just and Lasting Peace in the Philippines, KmB Pro-People Youth, Ecumenical Fellowship for Justice and Peace, March Forward!, Communities United for Justice, Free Palestine Alliance, Students for Justice in Palestine, Estancia High School Peace Club, Coalición por la Paz y Democracia en Honduras, Frente Hondureño de Resistencia Popular, Inland Empire Rapid Response Network, Topanga Peace Alliance, Islamic Shura Council of Southern California and many others.

Volunteers needed! To get involved, contact: answerla@answerla.org, 213-251-1025

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA

11:30am: Assemble on 24th and Mission
12:00noon: March to Civic Center
1:00pm-3:00pm: Rally at Civic Center Sponsored by the May Day Coalition

Volunteers needed! To get involved, contact: answer@answersf.org, 415-821-6545

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

2:00pm: Gather at Union Park(Corners of Lake and Ashland)

3:00pm: March to Pilsen Organized by the Chicago May Day Organizing Group. Endorsers include: Moratorium on Deportations Campaign, Biblioteca Popular, Committee Against the Militarization of our Youth (CAMi), Albany Park, North Park, Mayfair Neighbors for Peace and Justice, AFSCME Local 2081, Teamsters Local 743, Labor Committee on Immigrant Worker Rights, ANSWER Chicago, Chicago Jobs with Justice, Immigrant Solidarity Dupage, Teachers for Social Justice-Chicago, Justice Mission, La Villita, Chicago Facebook Community, Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano, Red Migrante, The Chicago Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, The Coalition of Utah Progressives (CUP), International Socialist Organization, Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign, Socialist Workers Party and the Party for Socialism and Liberation

Volunteers needed! To get involved, contact: answer@chicagoanswer.net, 773-463-0311

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK

1:00pm: Rally at Foley Square

*Meet up with ANSWER at 12:30pm at Worth and Centre (north end of Foley Square)

Sponsored by the Alliance for Labor & Immigrant Rights & Jobs for All, a coalition of many unions, community and other organizations

Volunteers needed! To get involved, contact: nyc@answercoalition.org, 212-694-8720

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

3:00pm: Gather at McKeldin Square(SE corner of Light St. and E. Pratt St., by the flag pole nearby the Inner Harbor)

Volunteers needed! To get involved, contact: baltimore@answercoalition.org, 443-759-9968

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS

Boston: 12:00noon - Rally at the Rose Kennedy Greenway Park (across from the Haymarket T Station, in the corner of Cross and Hanover Sts.).

After the rally, take the T to East Boston (see below for details).

Organized by the Boston May Day Committee (Mass. Global Action, ANSWER Coalition, Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Party, July 26 Coalition, Tecschange, Latinos for Social Change) and endorsed by many organizations.

East Boston: 2:00pm - March from Liberty Plaza in Central Square to Chelsea City Hall                             

Everett: 2:00pm - March from Everett City Hall to Chelsea City Hall        

Chelsea: 3:00pm-5:00pm - Rally at Chelsea City Hall

Organized by the May 1 Coalition of Chelsea, East Boston, and Everett

Volunteers needed! To get involved, contact: boston@answercoalition.org, 857-334-5084

NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT

11:00am: Rally at City Hall The rally will be followed by a march through the city. The march will end back at the annual May Day Festival on the Green, which will feature political speakers, artists, musicians and information tables.

Volunteers needed! To get involved, contact: connecticut@answercoalition.org, 203-903-4480

SYRACUSE, NEW YORK

5:00pm-7:00pm
Plymouth Church: 232. E. Onondaga St.Open house in celebration of International Workers' Day

with music, refreshments, and workers' stories

Organized by the Workers' Center of Central New York

Volunteers needed! To get involved, contact: syracuse@answercoalition.org, 315-491-6987

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

Monroe Park (VCU Campus)

3:00pm: Music and Gathering

4:00pm: Rally and Speakers

5:00pm: Parade

6:00pm: Closing Ceremonies

Organized by 2011 Richmond, Virginia May Day

Volunteers needed! To get involved, contact: dc@answercoalition.org, 202-265-1948

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO

1:00pm: Starting from the Rosario Chapel (in front of De Vargas Mall)

Ending in rally and lunch at De Vargas Park (Next to Our Lady of Guadalupe Church)

Sponsored by Somos' Worker's Committee

Volunteers needed! To get involved, contact: abq@answercoalition.org, 505-268-2488

Source

ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Coalition, April 27, 2011, http://www.answercoalition.org/national/news/may-1-immigrant-rights-demos.html

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BAMN Nov. Conf. defends education, equal rights

NATIONAL CONFERENCE of the
Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, Immigrant Rights,
Fight for Equality
By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)
Saturday-Sunday, November 13-14, 2010

Building the New Integrated Mass Student, Youth-Led

Civil Rights/Immigrant Rights Movement to —

Defend public education from Pre-K through college

• No more charters
• Arne Duncan must go
• No more fee/tuition hikes, layoffs, furloughs, or program cuts in public higher education.
• Stop the privatization of public education.

Defeat the new Jim Crow

• No more separate and unequal K-12 education
• Stop the re-segregation of higher education
• Pass the Dream Act now
• Defend and restore affirmative action, school desegregation, and metropolitan-wide magnet school programs

[Advocate] Full rights for all immigrants, documented and undocumented

• Overturn Arizona's anti-immigrant SB 1070
• Education, not deportation: Make every school and university a sanctuary campus
• Stop the racial targeting of immigrant communities
• End the raids and deportations

Defend and build an independent union movement

• Stop relying on the politicians to defend our rights
• Unite the labor movement with the new independent civil rights/immigrants movement to defend our living standards and create more union-wage-level jobs
• Use public money to create public works and jobs, not to enhance the profit margins of the private sector
• Build independent militant union struggles to organize the unorganized, including undocumented workers

Create a national and international policy to address climate change and to prevent the devastation created by global warming (This topic discussed at length at this Conference)

Saturday-Sunday, November 13-14, 2010

Each day begins at 10:00 a.m.
Pasadena Community College, Los Angeles
Pre-register at BAMN.COM
Information numbers: (510) 502-9072, (323) 474-8222, (313) 468-3398
http://www.bamn.com/doc/2010/101105-bamn-conf.asp

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Bennett's books available at New York independent bookstores: Lift Bridge Bookshop: www.liftbridgebooks.com [Brockport, NY]; Sundance Books: http://www.sundancebooks.com/main.html [Geneseo, NY]; The Book Den, Ltd.: BookDenLtd@frontiernet.net [Danville, NY] Talking Leaves Books-Elmwood: talking.leaves.elmwood@gmail.com [Buffalo, NY]; Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza: http://www.bhny.com/ [Albany, NY]; Mood Makers Books: www.moodmakersbooks.com [City of Rochester, NY] Dog Ears Bookstore and Literary Arts Center: www.enlightenthedog.org/ [Buffalo, NY] Burlingham Books – ‘Your Local Chapter’: http://burlinghambooks.com/ [Perry, NY 14530] The Bookworm: http://www.eabookworm.com/ [East Aurora, NY]