Douglas Street Community Celebrates Mayday

cork | worker & community struggles and protests | event notice Tuesday April 27, 2010 21:38 by Eric - WSM solidaritybooks at gmail dot com

Douglas Street Community will celebrate Mayday this Saturday the 1st of May, from 12 noon.

May Day is a "workers holiday" to commemorate the people involved in the 1886 Haymarket affair and a celebration of the social and economic achievements of the international labour movement.

Please show your support for these series of events at this most critical time for unity and solidarity.

Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago

All events are free!

• From 12 – 5pm: a series of talks ranging from Joe Moore of the SWP on “Racism, and how to fight it”, to, Nasc on immigrant rights, to Noel Murphy of the CPI on workers rights, and James McBarron of the Workers Solidarity Movement on the partnership process, all will be hosted at Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas Street
( http://www.solidaritybooks.org/ )

• 2pm: A free community meal in Fionnbarra's beer garden

• The film, Precarity, will be shown throughout the day, in Solidarity books.
Precarity is a compilation of 17 videos on flexiwork and precarity
( http://eipcp.net/transversal/0704/p2p/en
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity_%28Euromayday%29 )

• 5:30pm: Fancy dress parade/street festival and Douglas Street march, which will feed into the main march at Connolly Hall, Parnell Bridge, 7pm. Free Party in Daunt Square 8 til late.

• 10pm: The 4-piece blues rock band “Mashed Chicken” will play at the Spailpin Fanach. admission is free.
( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY1aIVhYW98 )