May Day 2012 Preview
Monday, April 30, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)This year May Day – International Workers’ Day – offers metro DC activists
plenty of ways to celebrate. Here are a few highlights of the upcoming May 1st
events:
Celebrate Working Women Across the
Globe
The AFL-CIO, LCLAA , CLUW and Solidarity Center host a brown
bag discussion of working women featuring solidarity messages from labor
movements in Cambodia, Mexico, Nigeria and Peru
Democracy
and An Economy for All: From Protests to Strategies for
Change
ILRF, the Institute for Policy Studies, Jobs with Justice,
the Communication Workers of America and others bring together labor rights
activists from the US and abroad to discuss cutting-edge labor-rights work and
develop new strategies to bolster the drive for jobs with justice and an economy
that works for all
2012 May Day Festival
DC activists come
together for May Day carnival games, live music, theater, workshops and
picnicking followed by a bike tour, rally, and march to Lafayette Square to
highlight the long history of the struggle for workers' rights in America and
around the world