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Gathering at 4:30pm at Champ-de-Mars
corner Saint-Antoine & Gosford
Métro Champ-de-Mars
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Join us for the ANTI-CAPITALIST MAYDAY DEMONSTRATION, MAY 1, 2012, IN MONTRÉAL
(See below for more calls issued by our allies!)

This is a call to all workers, unemployed, and precariously employed.
This is a call to the poor, the outcasts, the marginalized and the oppressed.
This is a call to the students who are struggling.
To women, and radical feminists, who have always struggled on the side of the disenfranchised.
This is a call to those who are fed up, and who cannot take any more of this shit.
To the anti-capitalists, the anarchists, the communists, the rebels, the insurgents, and revolutionaries.
This is a call for the expression of a justifiable rage!

THIS IS A CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE ON MAY 1!
We call for a general strike for May 1, and we call for an unlimited general strike, because we do not want to be the oil that drives the gears of capitalism!
We will be the iron bar that will derail it!
We call for the general strike to put an end to capitalism, because without us, the capitalists are nothing!
Together, we are everything, we can do anything!!

Join CLAC-Montreal (Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles) on MAY 1st!
* We are inviting you to bring your banners, flags and placards, megaphones and noisemakers. And come masked! We also suggest that you form affinity groups!

* We are also inviting groups to support this call for an anti-capitalist May 1 demonstration, to put together your own block for the demonstration, to circulate this call-out in your networks, and to help with mobilization.*

If you are interested, contact us at: info @ clac-montreal.net

Join Us!
For a MAY 1 that is clearly anti-capitalist, and in the spirit of the pioneers of working-class emancipation, this is a call to retake the streets, to break the established order, and to occupy EVERYTHING!

To read CLAC's newspaper, MayDay Special Issue:
http://www.clac-montreal.net/coup_pour_coup

For more information visit:
http://clac-montreal.net
info @ clac-montréal.net
https://www.facebook.com/events/324635217571613/

The following groups have endorsed this call:
Comité des sans-emploi Montréal-Centre (CSE)
Dignidad Migrante
Filipino workers support group
Immigrant Workers Centre (CTTI-IWC)
La Mitrailleuse
No One is Illegal - Montréal
People's Commission Network (PCN)
PINAY
Projet accompagnement solidarité Colombie (PASC)
Queer-McGill Political Action Working Group
RASH-Montréal
Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)
Solidarity Across Borders (SSAB)
Les Sorcières


[More calls for May Day!: Please note that these calls are not issued by CLAC but by its allies.]

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For a Social Strike on May 1st and 15th, 2012
http://www.grevesociale.info/

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ANARCHIST CONTINGENT, MONTRÉAL, MAY DAY 2012
http://grevemontreal.noblogs.org/post/2012/04/22/anarchist-contingent-mo...

















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Les Sorcières vous invite ! Contingent féministe pour le 1 mai
*À toutes les féministes en résistance,*
*Les révoltées et les Insoumises,*
*Celles qui en ont marre,*

Dans le cadre de : *1er MAI ANTICAPITALISTE 2012
*Manifestation anticapitaliste à l'occasion de la Fête internationale des travailleuses et travailleurs* *qui aura lieu à Montréal, le 1 mai, à 16h30 Champ-de-mars (derrière l'hôtel de ville).

*Le collectif féministe radical Les Sorcières* vous invite à *vous vêtir de mauve* et à venir manifester votre colère en vous solidarisant dans un contingent coloré lors de cette manifestation!

Soyez créative ! Perruques, costumes, couleur violette ! Aucune limite !

Car nous refusons d'être soumises, pendant que les mâles capitalisent!

Vous pourrez nous rejoindre !! Nous serons faciles à repérer….

ON VEUT LE PATRIARCAT EN CRISE, LA RÉSISTANCE FÉMINISTE EST DE MISE!

Pour toutes autres informations: sorcieres01 @ gmail.com
radicalement vôtres,
Les sorcières

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Join the migrant justice contingent during ANTI-CAPITALIST MAYDAY:
TUESDAY, MAY 1st, 2012
The migrant justice contingent will gather behind the "ImmigrantEs,travailleurs/euses: même combat!" banner at 4:15pm at the corner of corner
of Saint-Antoine & Gosford.
May 1st gathering at Champ-de-Mars at 4:30pm
Métro Champ-de-Mars
INFO: www.clac-montreal.net/en

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INVITATION à former un BÉBÉ BLOC
*à l’occasion de la manifestation anticapitaliste du 1er MAI 2012*

Le comité de mobilisation des parents-étudiants de l’UQAM et des Parents contre la hausse invitent parents, grands-parents, enfants petits et grands et alliéEs des familles à former un bébé bloc lors de la manifestation anticapitaliste du 1er mai 2012!

*Pourquoi un bébé bloc?*
Dans le contexte politique actuel, où la répression policière est omniprésente et démesurée, il devient difficile, voir impossible pour certaines groupes de participer aux manifestations et autres actions qui nous interpellent. Un des groupes dont la participation est la plus restreinte est celui des parents et de leurs enfants. Le déploiement et les
interventions policières imprévisibles menacent trop souvent leur sécurité. Malgré ce contexte répressif, plusieurs parents veulent se doter de moyens pour continuer à lutter en mettant place les conditions nécessaires pour assurer le bien-être des enfants.

*Qu’est-ce qu’un bébé bloc?*
Un bébé bloc est un espace délimité dans une manifestation où sont réunis des enfants et les personnes qui en ont la responsabilité (parents, grands-parents, oncles, tantes, amiEs, alliéEs, etc.). Ensemble, ces personnes veillent à la sécurité et aux besoins spécifiques des enfants et des ceux et celles qui les accompagnent afin que tout le monde se sente bien durant la marche. Le bébé bloc est donc un contingent autonome dans la manif qui pourra s’en séparer SI le besoin s’en fait sentir.

*Nous sommes parents, grands-parents, anticapitalistes et en colère!*
*Contre la hausse des frais de scolarité et toutes les formes d’oppression,*
*en solidarité avec les laisséEs-pour-compte de notre société et d’ailleurs.*
*Montrons les différents visages de la lutte sans nous laisser intimider!*

*RENDEZ-VOUS le 1er MAI 2012 à 16h30, métro Champ-de-Mars*
*Cherchez des ballounes et du jaune!*
*Apportez vos pancartes, bannières, déguisements, instruments de musique!*

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The banks and big corporations have emerged from the economic crisis as winners. They continue to amass record profits! But, for the majority of the population, things are going differently. The crisis not only funnelled hundreds of billions of dollars of public money into "saving" the financial system, it served as a pretext for big businesses to carry out massive lay-offs and for governments world-wide to cut social services such as education and health.

Capitalism only serves a handful of individuals. There have been endless corruption scandals and thefts of public funds. There have been tax cuts for the rich ... followed by cut-backs imposed on us. The greed of the rich is matched only by the enormous bonuses they lavish on themselves. It's ridiculous!

Immigrants, the unemployed, people on social assistance, single mothers and the elderly are cruelly affected by the crisis of capitalism. But the so-called "middle" class is now also directly affected and the situation is only going to get worse: higher costs of living, lower salaries, reduced social protections, privatization, health care user-fees and more.

We all contribute to the production of wealth. There is no valid reason for not sharing it fairly. There is absolutely no reason why this wealth should be stolen by a handful of billionaires, whether they be business leaders, war-lords, oil kings or dictators! Let's follow the example of the angry people of Tunisia, Egypt and Greece. Here, just like there, against capitalism, against all forms of oppression, for a better life, we have every reason to rise up!

Let's rise up in the streets of Montreal on May 1st, International Workers' Day. Bring your flags and your scarves. Let's hit the streets!

An invitation from CLAC-Montréal, www.clac2010.net / blocampmontreal@gmail.com