Dirty South May Day Committee

courtesy Eric Drooker (www.Drooker.com)

May 3^rd

Howell Park (in the West End) @ 1pm – 5pm

South East Regional May Day Festival to celebrate International Worker’s Day in style with music, spoken word, poetry, speakers and food. This will be a legal festival to strengthen and nurture the Southeast radical community.

DIRECTIONS TO HOWELL PARK

Lets' Get On With It,

We've Got a World to Win!!!

May 1st is International Workers Day, also known as May Day, whose history goes back to 1886 when a massive general strike took place in the United States that was met with horrible and bloody suppression. Ever since this, May 1st has been a day for the oppressed people of the world to celebrate each other and look to the future. A day when the oppressed people of the world stand in solidarity with each other and pledge their common fight against injustice and tyranny. It is a day when people take stock of where our international struggle for freedom and justice is, and where it needs to go. We in the Dirty South May Day Committee (DSMDC) call on you to continue this radical tradition. This May 1st takes place during very tumultuous times. Times when many things seem possible, not only for the oppressors, but for the oppressed people as well. We will celebrate our potential, our power, our truth, our diversity, and our determination. All the while expressing our disdain, scorn, and hatred for all oppressors.

This is our world, and the ruling regimes have proven themselves unfit caretakers of the planet.

What we do now and what we do over this whole coming period, in unity with people across the globe, will help shape and determine the outcome of the war on Iraq and the plans for occupation. We Must Stop This War and Occupation!

With all this in mind, the DSMDC is calling for events of defiance and celebration.

MAY FIRST... ACT!!!

We call on people to plan actions and events that take on the current trajectory of war and oppression, and that celebrate our undeniable right to resist and rebel! We call on students throughout the South to organize teach-ins, walk-outs, rallies, or confront military recruiters. Step up and into the school of resistance. We call on people to close their shops, block their streets, and not allow business as usual. Be creative, be determined, cross your line, FIGHT BACK!!!

MAY THIRD... CELEBRATE!!!

We are calling for a South-East Convergence in Atlanta to celebrate International Workers Day in style. This will be a legal event. An event in which immigrants and all others can come and take part. We will have music, spoken word, poetry, speakers and food. This will be a day to strengthen and nurture the SouthEast radical community.

A day to celebrate a world in birth!

Today, many people are learning that the future cannot be left up to the imperialists. We need a future worth living in. But there will be no better world in the future unless we take up the challenges of today. That challenge is this: to analyze what we have accomplished and what we have yet to do; to build on those accomplishments and apply the lessons we have learned to the new and more difficult challenges; to rely on each other and to strengthen our camaraderie, our organization and our understanding; and on that strong basis to find creative and determined ways to rally forward the next waves of mass resistance in our march toward a better world.

-Dirty South May Day Committee