May Day 2010 Fort Collins

This May 1st we'll come together and celebrate our collective radical history, the struggle for workers' rights, and autonomous people's movements, while building our current communities of resistance!

The day's activities begin at 2 p.m. Meet at the Old Town Square--look for the black flags and a banner or two. We'll set out in celebration and head to a nearby park where we can enjoy free food and each others' good company.

Bring yourself, your friends, and revolutionary desire! If you wanna bring a banner, masks, costumes, extra food for the picnic, or anything else you feel is appropriate--please do!


Thursday, April 29, 2010

May Day! in Fort Collins

Celebrate May Day!

On Saturday, May First, let's celebrate the radical history of May Day, while continuing to build our own communities of resistance. We'll be meeting in the Old Town Square and then heading to Jefferson Park, where we can enjoy free food, a spring afternoon, and each others' fine company.

The roots of May Day as International Workers' Day lie in the radical history of workers' struggles for the eight-hour work day. May Day marks the remembrance and continuation of the struggles embodied in the Haymarket Massacre in Chicago and subsequent arrest and show-trial of eight anarchists, four of whom were executed.

May Day has become a day of action and celebration for people around the world who fight for a better present and a better future--including workers, immigrant rights and no borders advocates, anti-war and anti-oppression activists, anarchists, and others. Let's get together in Fort Collins to celebrate this history and work at creating strong relationships to fight systems of domination today.

With the recent passage in Arizona of Senate Bill 1070, May Day as a day of struggle for immigrant rights has become even more urgent. This Saturday, May 1st, we will act in solidarity with those in Arizona resisting this official policy of racism. We recognize that this issue does not stop at the Arizona border. There are those here in our own town who continue to scapegoat immigrants and who would like to see the same law enacted here.

By coming together and getting to better know each other, we build our capacity for organizing and for resistance. Let's act in solidarity on May Day, and strengthen our relationships by sharing together in action, food, and fun.

May Day!
Saturday, May 1st, 2:00 pm
Old Town Square....Jefferson Park

...bring whatever to liven up the day--banners, music, instruments, friends, songs, poems, and more...

"If you think that by hanging us you can stamp out the labor movement...the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil in misery and want, expect salvation -- if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread on a spark, but there and there, behind you -- and in front of you, and everywhere, flames blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out." August Spies, of the Haymarket Eight
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  1. ImaginableMay 2, 2010 at 4:28 PM

    Please come clean up the fliers you illegally pasted around town. All you had to do was ask. Now clean up your mess.

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