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May 1: Shut It Down!

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Date:
Monday, May 01, 2017
Time:
5:00 AM - 5:00 AM
Event Type:
Protest
Organizer/Author:
Sanctuary Santa Cruz
Location Details:
5:00 am - Blockade and walkout of UCSC Campus
All morning - Autonomous actions across Santa Cruz
12 Noon - Rally at Main Gate UCSC Campus - High Street at Bay
1:30 pm - Rally at the downtown Post Office fence
2:30 pm - March to Beach Flats Community Center
3-6:00pm - Workshops and other activities in Beach Flats
6:30 pm - Outdoor party in Beach Flats

(Español abajo...)
MAY 1: SHUT IT DOWN!
IN SOLIDARITY WITH MIGRANTS, REFUGEES, AND WORKERS.
NO WALLS, NO WARS, INVISIBLE NO MORE.

People around the world celebrate International Workers Day on May 1st by choosing not to go to work or school. From the Middle East to California, we are living in a time of unprecedented global social and ecological crisis. Let's join together and raise our voices in solidarity. A more beautiful world is possible! Take the day off and build it with us here and now.

Endorsed by:
Sanctuary Santa Cruz
Your Allied Rapid Response (YARR)
Santa Cruz Solidarity Network
SubRosa Community Space
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), Santa Cruz
Indivisibles, Santa Cruz 20
Beach Flats Community Gardeners
Watsonville Brown Berets
Cosecha, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network
Project Pollinate
Socialist Alternative, Santa Cruz
Democratic Socialists of America, Santa Cruz

5:00 am - Blockade and walkout of UCSC Campus
All morning - Autonomous actions across Santa Cruz
12 Noon - Rally at Main Gate UCSC Campus - High Street at Bay
1:30 pm - Rally at the downtown Post Office fence
2:30 pm - March to Beach Flats Community Center
3-6:00pm - Workshops and other activities in Beach Flats
6:30 pm - Outdoor party in Beach Flats

PRIMERO DE MAYO: ¡PARO!
EN SOLIDARIDAD CON LOS INMIGRANTES, REFUGIADOS Y TRABAJADORES DE TODO EL MUNDO

¡No más murallas, no más guerras, no somos invisibles!

El Primero de Mayo se celebra el Día Internacional del Trabajo alrededor del mundo, haciendo huelga, no asistiendo a el trabajo ni a la escuela. Desde el Medio Oriente hasta California, estamos viviendo una crisis social y ecológica sin precedente. Unámonos y levantemos nuestra voz en solidaridad. ¡Un mundo mejor es posible! Tomate el dia y ayúdanos a construirlo aquí y ahora.

Respaldado por:
Santuario Santa Cruz
Your Allied Rapid Response (YARR)
Red de Solidaridad de Santa Cruz
Espacio Comunitario de SubRosa
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), Santa Cruz
Indivisibles, Santa Cruz 20
Jardineros del Jardín Comunitario de la Playa
Watsonville Brown Berets
Cosecha, Santa Cruz
Red de Acción Climática de Santa Cruz
Project Pollinate
Alternativa Socialista, Santa Cruz
Democratic Socialists of America, Santa Cruz

Plantón y protesta de la Universidad - 5:00 am
Acciones independientes durante la mañana através de la ciudad
Mitin a la entrada de la universidad - Intersección de High y Bay - Mediodía
Mitin frente a la malla ciclónica de la oficina de correos - 1:30 pm
Marcha hacia el Centro Comunitario de Beach Flats para llegar a las 3:00 pm
Fiesta al aire libre en Beach Flats - 6:30 pm
Added to the calendar on Mon, Apr 24, 2017 3:26PM
§Letter to Your Boss: An Injury To One Is An Injury To All!
by UCSC March Collective
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Are you participating in the May First march in Santa Cruz/ elsewhere? Please read below. Organizers have drafted a letter you can send to your employee(s)/faculty:

An injury to one is an injury to all!

Dear (your boss’s name),

I am writing to inform you that in honor of all workers in the world, I will not be working on Monday, May 1st as part of the International Worker’s Day.

Our bodies are spaces of politics, and hence I urge you all to consider giving the day off to your employees and encourage them to participate in a student-led march that is going to take place on May 1st.

I stand in solidarity with workers around the globe because I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired of economic and social injustice worldwide. Currently, at ‘our’ university, UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal’s salary is over $380,000 (note: he is the lowest-paid UC Chancellor). Meanwhile, more than two-thirds of UC’s clerical, administrative and support staff struggle to put enough food on their own tables. To illustrate some disparities, a UCSC Cook makes an hourly wage of $17.88, a Senior Custodian makes $19.57, and students who can receive work-study and work at a dining hall acquire an hourly wage of $10.50. Blumenthal is a prime example of the many compliant apparatuses who maintain and legitimize capitalism as the most crucial value within the economic, political and cultural sectors of the university, the country and North American society. Not only are UCSC wages insufficient to live dignified lives, but the idea of giving our physical labor in return for money is the most dehumanizing activity one can do in this world, and yet we all conform to it.

On May First, I will use my body as a space of politics and as a form of agency to deliver a message: I am not the only angry student/worker in this campus. We are many. We condemn capitalism, patriarchy, imperialism and other forms of oppression domestic and worldwide.

In the current political context, you and I cannot remain neutral. We must be critical of our job titles, responsibilities and accountability dynamics. We are being sucked into bureaucratic processes, and will ultimately become uncreative, complicit, and passive adults our capitalist society yearns for. Unless we take action, we will remain immobile bodies thinking we can liberate ourselves by critiquing the system while at the same time adhering to oppressive jobs, bureaucracies and institutions. As cliché as it may sound, if you stay neutral in moments of oppression you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

Here are some things you can do on May 1st:

- Send a letter to all your employees letting them know they are not required to work on May First

- On the letter, encourage them to partake in the on-campus student demonstrations

- Send a letter to your employer letting them know you will stand in solidarity with workers worldwide and therefore cannot work on that day

- Participate in the student-led demonstrations

We do it for the undocumented and poor/low-income workers who wish to be part of the actions, but are afraid of getting arrested and consequently deported.

Sincerely,
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