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For well over 100 years, May Day – or May 1st – has been the day of resistance and celebration for workers all throughout the world. It is a day when workers quit their slaving away and pour into the streets to demonstrate the power of unity. In many cases, May Day has been a launching point for massive working-class fight-backs. With the deepening of the world economic crisis combined with the destruction of the environment by capitalism, the unity and leadership of working class people is needed now more than ever before. Every day, fresh attacks are being made against working people in Canada – the unionized and non-unionized, migrant workers and the undocumented. “Neoliberal” capitalism is launching attacks on every section of the working-class to keep profits up – cuts to social expenditures, pension raids, attacks on wages, corporate tax cuts; and this system offers no alternative to the relentless destruction of the environment. The May 1st Movement declares that our struggles as working class migrants and the children of working class migrants – with or without status – requires a unity with the rest of the working class in Canada. We also declare our support for the indigenous peoples and nations fighting to exercise their right to self-determination over their lands being occupied and plundered by the Canadian state, extractive industries, and “developers”. Finally, the struggle of migrants does not stop at attaining full recognition as Canadian citizens. As Tamil Canadians demonstrated heroically throughout 2009 with cross-country mobilizations of hundreds of thousands, migrants and new Canadians cannot stand by while unconscionable acts of terror and genocide are carried out against our families and peoples, especially when these crimes are supported by the Canadian government. As part of our international duty, we call on all conscientious working class people and progressive Canadians to realize their material interests in fighting for the: Immediate withdrawal of all foreign-based Canadian military and police personnel, especially in Afghanistan and Haiti; Halting of Canadian government funding to oppressive governments especially those in Sri Lanka, Honduras, Israel, the Philippines, and Colombia; Non-interference in sovereign nations and the right of all nations to choose their own representatives; The decriminalization of national liberation movements, organizations, and individuals associated with them, as the right to national self-determination is an internationally recognized right; and The scrapping of all “free-trade” agreements that are harming workers all throughout the work to the benefit of capital. In this time of crisis, M1M calls on all working class people to step up their level of organization and agitation in their neighbourhoods, workplaces, schools, community centers, religious institutions, and anywhere else where we can begin to unite working class and progressive people. On Saturday, May 1, 2010, rally, march, and celebrate May Day with the May 1st Movement (M1M), as we organize ourselves to strengthen the unity and solidarity of working people in Toronto.
1:00pm Rally 1:30pm March 3:00pm Cultural Event
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