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Submitted by UnkemptTide on Fri, 04/21/2006 - 2:13pm.
May 1 2006 - 3:00pm

This years May Day Worker Solidarity events are going to be blast! Take a stand to defend the rights of immigrant workers and hear from numerous people and organizations including:

-Adrianna Barazza from Schools for Chiapas
-Cory Fischer-Hoffman from the WROC
-Amanda Milholland from UCAN
-the Olympia Workers Association
-Mary-Ellen Donaldson on CAFTA
-Delegates from the Thurston Santo Tomás Sister County Association
-Phil Owens of Bread and Roses
-And more!

Music will be played by:
*The Citizens Band
*Fast Rattler
*The Grizzle Grazzle Trash Can Band

There will be a solidarity statement read from the Seattle May Day Organizers.

Interactive tabeling will be done by:
+Rec The Place Records - Make your own buttons
+Last Word - Providing free zines
+Yes Yes - Community based art
+Free Radio Olympia
+Schools 4 Chiapas - Mother Seeds of Resistance

At 3pm events will begin at Sylvester Park
Around 5pm we will march
At 6:30 the march will end at the new Bread And Roses Advocacy Center

Free shows following the days events at the Yes Yes and at the Manium!

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MayDay

Should I go to Sylvester park and "stand in solidarity" or just stay home to mourn the death of free thought in Olympia... how sad... DO SOMETHING BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
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