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EVENTS
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Met by Protestors During the National Governor’s Association Meeting in Boston Dramatic Street Protest Despite Torrential Rainfall
Boston, July 10, 2010.- Today, a dramatic protest took to the streets of Boston to protest the presence of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer during the annual meeting of the National Governor’s Association. Despite torrential rains, a two-mile march went from the rally site at Copley Square to the Sheraton Hotel, where the governors were meeting. March organizers estimated that over 600 people participated in the three-hour rally and march.
Demonstrators came from throughout the region, with organized transportation coming from Worcester, Fitchburg, Providence, New Haven, New London, New York City, Syracuse, Baltimore, Washington DC, Philadelphia and elsewhere.
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[PAST] 6/15 -- PROTEST THE ARIZONA RACIST ANTI-IMMIGRANT LAW SB-1070 AT THE FENWAY The Boston May Day Committee has joined many other groups (see media advisory below) that stand out for justice for immigrant workers and their families and protest the racist anti-immigrant law SB-1070 recently passed in Arizona. We are bringing our protesting voices to the baseball field when thousands will gather to watch the game between the Red Sox and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Arizona Diamondbacks' owners have stood consistently in support of the same Republican politicians that promoted and passed SB-1070.
We are also here to warn about similar anti-immigrant efforts in progress at the Massachusetts Senate. We need to say loudly that Massachusetts is not Arizona!
Please make any efforts necessary to be at the picket with us next Tuesday, June 15. Arrive if you can at least by 5:45PM.
NO WORKER IS ILLEGAL!
To download flyer click here.
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Statement of Support and Call for Wednesday 6/16 Rally Against Attacks on Immigrants 11/06/2010 - RALLY! WEDNESDAY JUNE 16, 6pm- 8pm, MASS STATE HOUSE, 24 BEACON ST, BOSTON
The Boston Mayday Committee (BMDC) expresses full solidarity with the courageous students lead by the Student Immigrant Movement who are camping out 24/7 on the steps of Boston's State House.
These young activists are drawing international attention to the cruel anti-immigrant policy which has already been passed by the Massachusetts Senate. The plan would deprive undocumented human beings living in our Commonwealth of all public assistance, literally taking food out of the mouths of children. No help from the state with housing or medical care would be provided to anyone who can't prove their citizenship.
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[PAST] 5/25 -- Public Event for Workers Rights in Quincy WORKERS UNITED FOR JOBS, JUSTICE & IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
All workers, immigrant and non-immigrant alike are under attack. What can we do to fight back?
A PUBLIC FORUM IN SEARCH OF SOLUTIONS
Tuesday, May 25th -- 7pm
Thomas Crane Library in Quincy Center
40 Washington Street, Quincy MA 02169
(Red Line to Braintree -- Quincy Center Station)
Organized by the Boston May Day Committee, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Party, Mass. Global Alliance, ANSWER
FIGHT LOCALLY, NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY AND RESIST THE RACIST LAW IN ARIZONA !!
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Bread and Puppet Theater on May Day 2010 at the Boston Common We have seen them arriving to different progressive events in their large yellow school bus covered with painted art. Their presence alone gives people a sense of happiness although we know they will be representing deadly serious issues such as imperialist wars, corporate greed and economic crisis, alienation instead of education, exploitation of the poor, persecution of immigrant workers, repression of worker organizers.
This coming May Day they will be in the Boston Common at the May Day Rally with life-size cutouts of the Martyrs of Chicago. George Engel, Adolf Fischer, Albert Parsons, and August Spies, hanged to death by the State of Illinois in 1886. Louis Lingg, also sentenced to death killed himself a day before the execution. Three worker leaders Michael Schwab, Samuel Fielden and Oscar Neebe were sentenced to long prison terms and then pardoned in 1893. Their crimes: to organize workers for the 8-hour work day. They all were anarchists. Bread and Puppets will tell us their story as only they know how.
Cheap Art Philosophy
The Cheap Art movement was launched in 1982 by the Bread and Puppet Theater in direct response to the business of art and its growing appropriation by the corporate sector.
With this fact taken into account art becomes:
“political whether you like it or not…”
Cheap Art hopes to reestablish the appreciation of artistic creation by making it available to a wider audience and inspire anyone to revel in an art making process that is not subject to academic approval or curatorial acceptance.
Why? “Because art is food…”, reads the Why Cheap Art manifesto. Cheap Art ranges in price from 5 cents to 50 dollars. Anyone can participate!
For more information visit wwww.breadandpuppet.org
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May Day on the Boston Common -- May 1, 12:00 Noon On May 1, 2010, the Boston May DayCommittee is organizing a march and rally starting on Boston Common at 12 noon. It will be joined by a procession from Boston’s North End featuring large cut-out images of the 8 immigrant workers known as the May Day martyrs.
In the Common, we are proud to announce a special performance of the famous radical theater group Bread and Puppet and a series of speakers that will address the major demands for May Day.
The 1:00 p.m. March from the Common will focus on local anti-worker employers and the federal Immigration & Customs Enforcement agency.
May Day organizers are concerned that:
- The Obama Administration deported 388,000 immigrants in 2009 (5% up from Bush’s last year)
- Nearly 20% of the workforce is unemployed or underemployed
- The Obama Administration is escalating the wars in the Middle East with record casualties in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- Obama has supported the immigration proposal of Schumer (D) - Graham (R), which we flatly reject as repressive and guest worker oriented.
- Across the globe and in the United States governments are cutting back on services while bailing out banks and real estate interests
Our action’s slogans are:
- Good Jobs Now!
- Full Rights & Citizenship for the Undocumented!
- Tax the Rich! Fund Schools, Clinics & Communities!
- Fund Human Needs Not War & Occupation!
- Bail Out Workers, Not Wall Street!
- Solidarity Across Borders, Down with Washington’s Orders!
Our endorsers include:
ANSWER Coalition, Boston Anti Authoritarian Movement, Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee, Greater Boston Stop the Wars Coalition, Harvard No-Layoffs Campaign, Industrial Workers of the World, Latinos for Social Change, Mass Global Action, Sacco & Vanzetti Commemoration Society, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Party of Boston, Socialist Workers Party, Student Labor Action Movement, USW Local 8751 - Boston School Bus Drivers Union, Worcester Immigrant Coalition, National Immigrant Solidarity Network, Democracy Center - Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridge/Somerville/Arlington United for Justice with Peace, International Socialist Organization, Community Church of Boston
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Workers Have No Borders!A discussion about building unity among all workers
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 7PM
At Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Av. 5th. Fl., Boston, Ma 02111
Featuring:
Dorotea Manuela -- "On organizing towards May Day"
Camilo Viveiros -- "On the raids and immigrant workers (such as the Foxboro mobile raid experience)
Steve Early -- "On the organized labor movement and immigrant workers"
This event seeks to build unity between immgrant workers and US-based labor movement by bringing together union workers, immigrant organizers and community activists. It is part of the campaign by the Boston May Day Committee and its affiliates to unite workers across sector and borders.
Join the conversation and help build toward May Day 2010!
Sponsored by the Boston May Day Committee
For more information: www.bostonmayday.org
To download the flyer click here.
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[PAST] Rally and Vigil to End the Raids & DeportationsSTANDING ON THE SIDE OF LOVE
TO KEEP IMMIGRANT FAMILIES TOGETHER
END THE RAIDS AND DEPORTATIONS!
Rally and Vigil
Sunday November 22nd 2pm
Suffolk County House of Corrections
20 Bradston Street, Boston
Sponsored by the Boston-area Coalition of the New Sanctuary Movement*, Mass. Resist the Raids Network, and Centro Presente. (*Arlington Street Church, Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford, Massachusetts Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice, Community Church of Boston, UUA and others.)
[The BMDC is a member of Mass. Resist the Raids Network.]
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[PAST] 10/25 -- Standout/speakout: No more deaths in prison, no more raids, no more detentions, no more deportations
Sunday, October 25 - 2PM
Suffolk County Jail (South Bay House of Corrections)
20 Bradston Street, Boston
On the wake of the death of Juan Tavarez, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic held at Suffolk County Jail, the Mass. Resist the Raids Network (MARtRN) will hold a speakout in front of the immigration detention center at the jail. We will express our feelings of solidarity with the prisoners held in there, and our sadness and outrage for the death of one more unnecessary prisoner.
Please join us and demand no more immigrants in prison, no more deaths!
(The Boston May Day Committee is an active member of the MARtRN and endorses this event)
More info: 617-290-5614
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[PAST] Mother’s Day Action: Resist the Raids, FAMILIES KNOW NO BORDERS
 07/05/2009 - Mother’s Day is a time for celebration for mother’s everywhere. Yet, for women in prison and immigration detention this is not the case. This is why we are taking a stance on Mother’s Day for all the women who are imprisoned and detained across the USA. Large scale women’s imprisonment has resulted in an increasing number of children who suffer from their mother’s incarceration and detention and the loss of family ties. Families should Know No Borders.
WHEN:
Sunday, May 10, 2009
1:30pm - Marchers gather in front of South Bay Corrections and Detention Center
2:00pm - Procession proceeds from South Bay entrance to 93 on-ramp.
WHERE:
Journey: Meeting at South Bay Corrections and Detention entrance 20 Bradston St, Boston 02118
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[PAST] Take the day off on May 1! Join the BMDC contingent! March and Rally
Friday, May 1, 2009
Glendale Park, Elm St., Everett, MA 4:30 pm
March from Central Square, East Boston, gathering time 2:00 PM
March from Chelsea City Hall, gathering time 3:00 PM
This event is organized by the May 1st. Coalition of Chelsea, East Boston & Everett and supported by
the Boston May Day Committee.
www.bostonmayday.org - 617-290-5614
To listen to an announcement in mp3 format click here.
To download the BMDC flyer click here.
Para bajar el volante del Comité Primero de Mayo de Boston pinche aqui.
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[PAST] May 1st Coalition of East Boston, Chelsea and Everett Message for May Day “Yesterday We Voted for Change, Today We Demand Change!” is the unified message of the May 1st Coalition led by the Chelsea Collaborative, the East Boston Ecumenical Community Council, and La Comunidad Inc. (Everett), and their community partners and allies across the Greater Boston area.
Immigrant communities in Greater Boston demand a just and humane immigration reform from the Obama administration and US Congress while celebrating International Workers Day!
As part of a nation-wide and state-wide efforts, local community organizers are also mobilizing to send a clear message to:
1. End the draconian enforcement policies of the Bush administration.
2. Establish a new immigration policy based on human, civil, and labor rights.
3. As the current economic crisis unfolds policy makers must recognize the essential economic and social contributions of all immigrants to US society.
Demonstrate in Everett's Glendale Park on May 1, 4:30pm.
Flyer in English
Flyer in Portugues
Flyer in Spanish
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[PAST] Report Back Third Social Forum of the AmericasREPORT BACK FROM THE THIRD SOCIAL FORUM OF THE AMERICAS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 - 7:00 PM -- AT ENCUENTRO5, 33 HARRISON AVENUE, BOSTON
(ALSO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 - 6PM-8PM, CLARK UNIVERSITY, 905 MAIN ST., WORCESTER - SACKLER 122)
The Third Social Forum of the Americas took place in Guatemala City, from October 7 to October 12. Three local activists participated in the Forum and will present us with a report of the proceedings, the trends, the ideas, the challenges and the plans for social change that emerged from the Forum. The participants are Gabriel Camacho, American Friends Service Committee Project Voice, Saulo Araujo, Grassroots International and Sergio Reyes, Boston May Day Coalition.
Flyer for Boston activity (Word).
Flyer for Worcester activity (Word).
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