Tucson May 1st Coalition
May Day 2010 is rapidly approaching
This year’s May Day is more important than ever as the economic and financial crisis continues to strike a heavy blow on workers from the U.S. and around the world. An economic recovery without jobs is a recovery solely for the multinational corporations, who rake in record profits as the people face increasing poverty, joblessness, homelessness, disease and death, and no end to the discriminatory corporate-run health care system in sight. The escalation of war abroad in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan and the militarization and war on the U.S. border demands our response.
A powerful and massive united fight-back against this onslaught is urgently needed.
May Day 2010 must be the spark that unites all those who dare to build the kind of movement capable of stopping ALL the attacks on workers, students and youth in our communities. May Day 2010 must support all those who are taking bold organized stands against the attacks upon the working class.
Our working class youth must be supported in their rapidly developing mobilizations against the relentless attack on the TUSD Ethnic Studies Program, extreme budget cuts, tuition increases, school closures, and unemployment and police brutality. The issues facing our children and young adults are part of the overall attack against working families and their communities.
Our Tucson community is one rich with many different cultures, customs, traditions, histories and ways of life. There are groups and individuals who view such a beautiful environment as something to fear and something that must be destroyed. It is time to stand together as one and say “YA BASTA!” to the attacks on everything we hold dear and of value in our community.
This 2010 May Day we must bring together all workers regardless of national origin, sexuality, language, religion or race. We create all the wealth of society and we must show the world that international workers day, May Day, will be honored here in the U.S. as a day of workers’ standing up for justice and resistance.