Nottingham MayDay Celebrations 2008.
Bob Grither | 19.03.2008 23:51 | Anti-racism | Migration | Workers' Movements
The annual march and rally to celebrate International Workers Day will once again take place in Nottingham. On Saturday 3rd. May local people will come together with music, song and speeches, and a march through the city centre, in a traditional MayDay carnival.
The Nottingham and Notts. Refugee Forum, (NNRF), Campaign Group are once again holding a MayDay march and rally in the centre of the city. On Saturday 3rd. May from 12.00--16.00 at the Brewhouse Yard Museum, Castle Boulevard there will be a celebration of International Workers Day. There will be music from around the world, speeches by local activists from many and varied campaigns, several campaign stalls and food by Veggies (hopefully).
As ever the theme of the day will concentrate on asylum and refugee issues not least being the government's latest attack on those most vulnerable of people, the withdrawal of primary health care to refused asylum seekers.
In addition to this event there will also be a public meeting on Thursday 1st. May at the International Community Centre on Mansfield Road at 19.00. The theme of this will be the so-called war on terror, civil liberties and there effect on migration. Moazzam Begg, who was held in Guantanamo Bay for several years, has agreed to come and speak.
Join us on both of these events and help keep MayDay alive in Nottingham.
NNRF Campaign Group.
As ever the theme of the day will concentrate on asylum and refugee issues not least being the government's latest attack on those most vulnerable of people, the withdrawal of primary health care to refused asylum seekers.
In addition to this event there will also be a public meeting on Thursday 1st. May at the International Community Centre on Mansfield Road at 19.00. The theme of this will be the so-called war on terror, civil liberties and there effect on migration. Moazzam Begg, who was held in Guantanamo Bay for several years, has agreed to come and speak.
Join us on both of these events and help keep MayDay alive in Nottingham.
NNRF Campaign Group.
Bob Grither
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Mayday is May 1st
20.03.2008 00:05
mayday'er
what about...
20.03.2008 07:55
I am really fed up with child poverty in this country and the poverty of low wage earners especially lone parents.I am happy to do some kind of stall on this-if anyone else is?
Things getting worse
things getting worse
Peoples Mayday
20.03.2008 08:27
If any1 wants to do a stall that's good check with current organisers. Iam sure there will be stalls on post,baths,nhs their usually are stalls on campaigns like these, but if not you'd be welcome.
May1st should be a bank holiday, but saturday is easier to get people to, but if anyone else wants organise an event on May1st go for it.
Green Syndicalist
May 1st is day of action against capitilist solutions to climate change
20.03.2008 16:30
All of these technologies are a distraction from the real solution to the problems we face: a massive reduction in our consumption and the end to economic growth.
On May 1st, international workers day, lets challenge these false solutions to climate chaos and show the real solution: far-reaching social change, and reduction in consumption.
3 months, 3 days of action
April 1st ... Fossil Fools Day
May 1st .... Invasion of the climate Snatchers
June 3rd ... Food and climate change
Invasion of the climate snatchers
e-mail:
mayday@daysofclimateaction.org.uk
Homepage:
http://www.daysofclimateaction.org.uk
May Day
20.03.2008 17:29
moxy
A little enlightenment
20.03.2008 18:31
As for stalls on child poverty etc. then if the writer wants to have one he/she is quite welcome to, just reply to this and I will reserve you a place.
Bob.
Bob
Make things better
21.03.2008 14:57
There are all sorts of logistical problems when organising this event. Sorting out the date is one - it's a sad fact that the march would be tiny if it was done on a day when many people are at work. May 1st should be a holiday - campaign to make it one - but it isn't yet. But that's why there's also going to be an evening meeting on May 1st itself. Also, the route of the march is difficult - we can't walk along tramlines, we can't go in the square because it's booked for a football event, but Brewhouse Yard has always been a great venue and should be so again.
Speakers' Corner? Have you found it yet? And where it's supposed to be isn't big enough for us. Let's fight for free speech everywhere, not just where the council thinks we should have it.
Everyone, please come to the public meeting on May 1st and the march and rally on May 3rd, and bring your banners, friends, drums, whistles, stilts, balloons, flags, placards, costumes, family, etc etc. Make this a day of solidarity!
MayDayer
May 1st is a Thursday
21.03.2008 17:38
Joe
contact?
29.03.2008 09:49
reallyoldhippy
e-mail:
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