25th April 2006

Mayday

The Mayday general strike seems to be taking root around the Bay Area. I know that the unions and many immigrant workers plan to take the day on — on the streets — rather than going to work. Maybe I’m too quick to giggle, but I find it funny that a movement with this mission statement

The increasing militarization along the US-Mexico border — by now a veritable war zone — serves as a brutal reminder that all borders operate as integral and deliberate parts of exploitative economic systems, inseparable from capitalism and neoliberal globalization. The US-Mexico border, and all other borders between nation-states and governments, are reproduced in our minds and throughout society, serving to enforce and legitimize the boundaries, disparities, and exploitative relationships between people. The demand for full amnesty and free movement of people, therefore, aims at justice for immigrants at the same time as it aspires to a world free from all such destructive divisions. More information on our analysis is available here

would also call for people to bring pots and spoons to raise a ruckus in a cacerolazo. Articulate vs. deafening?

Someone after my tiny heart created this flyer (front, back). See you there? What are you seeing in your community?

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