Tagged: Global May Day 2021

Online-Meeting: What’s next after #GlobalMayDay2021?

May 9th (Sunday)

Global May Day 2021 is over. Let’s reflect on the Global May Day coordinations this year and consider next steps, for example coordinations related to the Call for International CDM Solidarity and the call for Starbucks to stop funding #TigrayGenocide.

Don’t worry about joining for the first time. Everyone sympathizing with the Global May Day self-conception is invited to join the meeting!

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#GlobalMayDay2021: Announce your Activities!

Global May Day 2021 is around the corner. Announce your activities, so they can be listed below.

You can use these channels to submit details on your activities (and May Day reports afterwards):
Global May Day mailing list [globalmayday@lists.riseup.net] | GMD facebook group | Contact form

The following list will be updated continuously:

Bonn

A libertarian alliance incl. Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Bonn calls for a rally in Bonn.

2 pm at Friedensplatz at 2 pm.

source: facebook

Braunschweig

The activist group in/progress calls to join the youth alliance demo “Lockdown Capitalism”.
[source: inprogress-bs.net]

10:30 am: starting at Burgplatz

12:15 pm: rally at Johannes-Selenka-Platz

1 – 4 pm: Stalls at Ringgleis with the Youth alliance at Westbahnhof

Dhaka

The Garment Workers’ Trade Union Center (GWTUC) will arrange a spontaneous rally somewhere in the city. Due to the repressive climate time and location are not publicly announced in advance.
The rally will also be streamed via their facebook page.

Freiburg

Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Freiburg will join the main May Day rally in the city and calls on people to join their block: 10:45 am – Platz der Alten Synagoge [sources: freiburg.fau.org | tacker.fr]

Hamburg

Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Hamburg and Industrial Workers’ of the World (IWW) Hamburg call to join the anarchist rally “Are you kidding us? Capitalism is the superspreader” organized by the regional Black-Red May Day alliance. [call in English: schwarzrotererstermai.blogspot.com]

Meeting points:

April 30th in Lübeck:
6:30 pm
Central Station

May Day in Hamburg:
12:30 pm
Emilienstraße (Subway Station)

Kolkata

As part of observing the May Day 2021, FITE Kolkata plans to:

1. Observe an online event streamed via the facebook page to go on from 1-7 May, 2021 (event link).
2. Create a poster for May day typically focusing on IT workers/IT industry.
3. A generic write up for May Day
4. Start a YouTube channel with an introductory video.
5. Create a collage with Employees’ pictures with slogans with hashtag #GlobalMayDay2021

Magdeburg

Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Magdeburg arranges various activities around May Day this year:
[source: magdeburg.fau.org]

April 28th: Poster-Campaign to remember the dead and fight for the living on this years Workers’ Memorial Day – across the city

May Day: Catwalk of oppression; street performance presenting different stories of workers | 12 am, Platz am Elbbahnhof

May 3rd: Day of action of the jobless; rally in front of the Jobcenter and companionships | 12 – 4 pm at the intersection of Otto-von-Guericke Str. and Ernst-Reuter-Allee

May 11th: Online input by the working group Labour Union Action – 6 pm (registration via faumd-va@fau.org)

Sweden

Various branches of anarcho-syndicalist SAC Syndicalisterna arrange activities in different cities.

Göteborg

Support cleaning workers on May Day! SAC calls to join actions against the cleaning company VGS. Groups with a fixed number of people will rally at 10:30 am outside various STC fitness studios. [source: facebook]

Malmö

Digital May Day starting noon. At 12 o’clock the local SAC branch in Malmö will stream interviews and talks about union activities in the last 12 months as well as musical sounds of resistance. The event will be streamed via facebook and youtube.

Stockholm

Speeches, music and coffee at Folkets Husby at 2 pm. There will be a rally followed by a BBQ. Follow the facebook page for updates.

Uppsala

Red-Black Vinyl-Night. Format and Funky Peter play vinyl records starting at 7 pm: twitch.tv

Others: 24 hrs May Day radio stream from the cultural center Cyclopen from 8 am until 8 am the next day. Live-music, DJs, talks, lyrics, noise and much more. SAC May Day speech will also be broadcasted and two comrades will speak about a recent conference focussing on medical care workers organized by SAC. [source: facebook]
Who was Joe Hill? A stream starting at 2 pm. [source: facebook]

Final Online-Meeting to Coordinate #GlobalMayDay2021

April 25th (Sunday)

This final online-meeting before #GlobalMayDay2021 will focus on updating each other on May Day activities and common coordinations. Especially the call for solidarity from Myanmar will be a topic.

Don’t worry about joining for the first time. Everyone sympathizing with the Global May Day self-conception is invited to join the meeting!

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#GlobalMayDay2021: Materials

For the past few months various workers organized in different syndicates and unions have been coordinating a common framework for the Global May Day 2021. The framework basically consists of a call to action (English, German, Spanish, Portuguese), common symbols (below) as well as good communication (e.g. informing the mailing list).

Initial supporters of this year’s call: Central Organisation of the Workers of Sweden (SAC), Federation of Syndicalist Organisations Brasil (FOB), Free Workers’ Union (FAU) Hamburg, Garment Workers’ Trade Union Center (GWTUC, Bangladesh), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Bristol.

#GlobalMayDay2021 #1world1struggle

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Manifiesto: Primero de Mayo 2021

Página principal: Global May Day 2021

A nivel mundial, nosotros, los trabajadores asalariados, nos vemos obligados a una competición para incrementar cada vez más el valor adicional obtenido de la cadena de producción. Independientemente de nuestro lugar de residencia, de nuestro género/sexo, nacionalidad, lo queramos o no, estamos implicados en la misma lucha. Los recortes presupuestarios en los servicios sociales, la subcontratación, los salarios cada vez más exiguos, privatizaciones, incremento del coste de la vida, así como las tasas de las matrículas para las y los estudiantes y la destrucción de los ecosistemas naturales, son solo algunos de los síntomas del sistema económico global. Un sistema que está basado en la explotación y en la competición, conduce a una mercantilización de todos los aspectos de nuestra vida.

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Online-Meeting #3: Coordinating Global May Day 2021

February 14th (Sunday) – Coordinations for a Global May Day 2021

This meeting will focus on the creation of a common framework:
We want to finalize the call for Global May Day 2021! So far FOB (Brazil) and CGT (Spain) submitted proposals to include universal basic income (Basic Income for Equal Citizens). Other than that the call will be based on the common call used for 2020 with a particular focus on the pandemic.

Everyone sympathizing with the Global May Day self-conception is invited to join the meeting!

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Online-Meeting #2: Coordinating Global May Day 2021

January 24th (Sunday) – Coordinations for a Global May Day 2021

This meeting will focus on the creation of a common framework:
We want to discuss the proposal submitted by FOB focussing on a universal basic income (copied below) as well as other points that should be included in a common call.

Everyone sympathizing with the Global May Day self-conception is invited to join the meeting!

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Online-Meeting #1: Coordinating Global May Day 2021

December 27th (Sunday) – Kicking off coordinations for a Global May Day 2021

This meeting will focus on two topics:
We want to explore how the #UnitedAgainstTheDragon movement in solidarity with former textile workers at Dragon Sweater in Dhaka went so far.
And following Global May Day 2020 we want to create a framework on the global level to connect May Day actions around the world in 2021.

Everyone sympathizing with the Global May Day self-conception is welcome to join the meeting!

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