Latest Update Of Mayday2k Contact And Action List
M A Y D A Y 2 0 0 0
Global Day of
Action, Resistance and Carnival
INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS
AND RESOURCES LIST
(last updated on April 22,
2000)
NEEDED: Translators !!! To make Mayday
information available in every language, now especially
Dutch, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Greek,
Serbo-Croatian, Indonesian, African languages, Thai, and
Vietnamese. Ca 1400 words. Translations are displayed at
www.lobster1.dircon.co.uk/
NOTIFICATIONS:
*
Activists in FINLAND: The email address mentioned in the
contact info below does not work.
LATEST ADDITIONS TO
THIS LIST:
New contacts in:
Fortaleza, Ceará,
Brazil
Santos, Brazil
Montreal, Canada (two
contacts)
London, England (one more)
Helsinki,
Finland
Ruhr-area, Germany
Rome, Italy
Tijuana,
Mexico
Utrecht, Netherlands
Wellington, New
Zealand
Bratislava, Slovakia
Elx (Alacant),
Spain
Ankara, Turkey
New York, New York, USA (one
more)
Springfield, Illinois, USA
New translations of
Mayday information text (see section III.F):
- Greek
-
Swahili
CONTENT:
I. General info about this
list
II. CONTACTS in
Australia
Austria
Brazil
Canada
England
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Slovakia
Spain
Switzerland
Turkey
United
States of America
Wales
III. RESOURCES
A.
Discussion lists
B. Mayday news subscription
C. Mayday
internet club
D. Web sites
E. Web ring
F. Mayday
information text
- Arabic
- Catalan
- Czech
-
English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
-
Italian
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Swahili
-
Swedish
- Turkish
G. International Contacts and
Resources List
H. Networking: worldwide activist
directories
- Global Grassroots Resistance Directory
-
Soman’s Revolutionary Socialist Links Page
- Anarchist
Yellow Pages
I. Alternative news coverage of Mayday
-
Direct Action Media Network (DAMN)
J. September 26-27
Global Days of Action against Capitalism
IV. The Mayday
2000 Global Day of Action
V. References
AUSTRALIA Perth, Western Australia Port Augusta Sydney Wollongong, New South Wales AUSTRIA Graz BRAZIL * Contra a corrente
(Brasil) Fortaleza, Ceará Santos CANADA * WTO Caravan Argenta, B.C. Montreal Ottawa Toronto Vancouver Victoria, B.C. ENGLAND Lancaster Liverpool
London Manchester Sheffield Southampton South West FINLAND * Email:
mayday2000@go.to Helsinki FRANCE Montréal Paris GERMANY Berlin Hamburg Mannheim Ruhr-area GREECE * J18
Hellas ITALY * Email:
milarepa@mail.com Pisa Rome MEXICO *
Jorhenaaka Mexico City Tijuana NETHERLANDS * MayDay 2K cooperating
collectives * Basisdemocratic
Network Utrecht NEW ZEALAND * A network of
different movements preparing for 1 May. Actions are being
coordinated on the web site and list server below. Auckland Hamilton Wellington NIGERIA * The Chikoko Movement, the Peoples
Democratic Liberation Party, the Pan African Youth Movement,
and the Ijaw Youth Council (more groups will join) PAKISTAN Multan SLOVAKIA Bratislava SPAIN Elx
(Alacant) SWITZERLAND Geneva Lugano TURKEY * Working Group of
Turkey Against MAI and Globalization Ankara UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA Arcata, California Ashland, Oregon Baltimore, Maryland Berkshire
County, Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts Chicago, Illinois Columbia, Missouri Dallas / Ft. Worth area,
Texas Denver, Colorado Detroit, Michigan Eugene, Oregon Gainesville, Florida Hamptons, Long
Island Lincoln, Nebraska Long Island Los Angeles, California Madison,
Wisconsin Minneapolis,
Minnesota New Orleans,
Louisiana New
York City, New York Northwest USA Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Olympia, Washington Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia / New York City / Washington DC area Phoenix, Arizona Portland, Oregon Riverside, California San Francisco, California Seattle, Washington Shelton,
Connecticut Springfield,
Illinois Washington,
District of Colombia WALES North Wales A.
DISCUSSION LISTS The mailing lists below may be suitable
for discussions and co-ordinative work surrounding the
Mayday 2000 Global Day of Action. Please note that the lists
are public and that anyone can subscribe to them; therefore
be careful about what you write. * English (international discussion
lists) * Portuguese
(international discussion list)
* North America
(continental discussion list) * Ireland
(national discussion list) * New Zealand
(national discussion list) *
United Kingdom (national discussion
list) * Southwest USA
(regional discussion
list) * Web
co-ordination (subject specific discussion
list) * Anti-border and migration
control actions * Anarchoprop (subject specific discussion
list) B. MAYDAY NEWS
SUBSCRIPTION Subscribers to the news group below will
receive regular information by email about the major
developments surrounding the Mayday 2000 Global Day of
Action. (See section III. A. Discussion Lists above for how
to get a free email address.) * Mayday 2000 (international
news group) C. MAYDAY INTERNET CLUB Members of the club
below will be able to access a special Mayday site on the
internet where they can post messages on the message board
(much like a discussion mailing list, although not done over
email), chat online, upload photos, add links, invite other
activists, and schedule events. * Global Day of Mass
Protests D. WEB
SITES Below is a list of web sites with information
relevant to M1. * (en)
International Lobster Party
* (en)
Mid-Atlantic Infoshop
* (en) Mayday 2k * (en)
WTO Caravan (Canada)
* (en) Mayday Florida 2000
* (en)
New Zealand
MayDay2K *
(en) Protest.Net * (en) Global Action
* (fi) (en) AMR
Helsinki * (de) MayDay
Germany *
(it) Mayday in Italy * (tu) Working Group of
Turkey Against Mai and
Globalization *
(en) Manchester May Day 2000
* (en)
Mayday 2000 in London
*
(en) Chicago Mayday
Coalition * (en) Long
Island * (en)
Olympia * (en)
Washington DC *
(en) Sheffield
Mayday E. WEB
RING This web ring is for web sites around the Global Days
of Action against Capitalism (J18, N30, the upcoming April
16th protests against the IMF and the World Bank, and also
Mayday 2000). The web ring will contribute to the sense of
international solidarity around these Days, allow for an
easy way for interested people to see what is happening,
increase the number of hits for each site, and also help to
connect older sites to more recent campaigns. To join, fill
in and submit a form at F. MAYDAY 2000 INFORMATION
TEXT Updated, concise text about the Mayday 2000 Global
Day of Action, including basic information about how to get
involved (mailing lists and news group) plus web sites and
references. It can be used to spread information about
Mayday 2000, promote it, and build up networks around it.
Substantial parts of the most recent version are included
below, in section IV. * Arabic Download from www.lobsterparty.org or write to
* Catalan
Download from www.lobsterparty.org or write to
* Czech
Download from www.lobsterparty.org or write to
* English
Download from www.lobsterparty.org or write to
* Finnish Download from
www.lobsterparty.org or write to * French Download from
www.lobsterparty.org or write to * German Download from
www.lobsterparty.org or write to * Greek Download from
www.lobsterparty.org, find at
www.geocities.com/j18hellas/1may.html or write to
* Italian Download from
www.lobsterparty.org or write to * Portuguese Download from
www.lobsterparty.org or write to * Spanish Download from
www.lobsterparty.org or write to * Swahili Download from
www.lobsterparty.org . * Swedish Download from
www.lobsterparty.org or write to * Turkish Download from
www.lobsterparty.org or write to NEEDED: Translators !!! To make Mayday
information available in every language, now especially
Dutch, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Greek,
Serbo-Croatian, Indonesian, African languages, Thai, and
Vietnamese. Ca 1400 words. Translations are displayed at
www.lobster1.dircon.co.uk/ G. INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS AND
RESOURCES LIST Includes contact information of all Mayday
2000 contacts around the world who plan action, as well as
information of major resources available, such as mailing
lists, web sites, and texts. H. NETWORKING: WORLDWIDE ACTIVIST
DIRECTORIES * Global Grassroots Resistance
Directory * Soman’s Revolutionary Socialist Links
Page * Anarchist Yellow
Pages I.
ALTERNATIVE NEWS COVERAGE OF MAYDAY * Direct Action Media
Network (DAMN) J. SEPTEMBER 26-27 GLOBAL DAYS
OF ACTION AGAINST CAPITALISM Activists in Prague, Czech
Republic are preparing to make September 27-28 this year the
next occasion for global action against capitalism, so that
it will coincide with the annual meeting between the
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank taking
place in Prague at that time. Please note that no
international call for action has as yet been launched
officially. There is a mailinglist working at the moment
to prepare the actions and so on in Prague. Subscribe by
sending an empty e-mail to
For more information
about the September 26-27 Global Days of Action against
Capitalism, see www.destroyimf.org, www.bankwatch.org or
www.mmf2000.webjump.com NEEDED: Translators !!! To make Mayday
information available in every language, now especially
Dutch, Chinese, Hindi, Urdu, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Greek,
Serbo-Croatian, Indonesian, African languages, Thai, and
Vietnamese. Ca 1400 words. Translations are displayed at
www.lobster1.dircon.co.uk/ Mayday
2000 Global Day of Action (M1) June 18, 1999 Global
Day of Action (J18) November 30, 1999 Global Day of Action
(N30) Peoples’ Global Action (PGA) Prague, Czech Republic, September 27-28,
2000 !!! P L E A S E F O R W A R D
W I D E L Y
!!!
I.
GENERAL INFO ABOUT THIS LIST
The contacts and resources
list below is for activists planning to take action on May
1, 2000 as part of a GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION, RESISTANCE, AND
CARNIVAL AGAINST CAPITALISM. This day will continue the June
18 and November 30 global days of action that took place in
1999. (see sections IV and V for more info)
The contacts
list serves to facilitate decentralized and non-hierarchic
networking for the day among sympathetic groups and
individuals. If you plan to take action, please check that
the relevant contact information below is correct. For
additions, corrections or comments, please contact
Anyone planning to take action
can send in contact information to facilitate networking.
This can be for instance (i) a particular group, (ii) a
coalition of groups or individuals, or (iii) a single
individual. In the case of a coalition consisting of several
groups, there might be a point in providing contact
information not only for the coalition as a whole, but also
for each participating group, to facilitate individual
networking.
Contact information may include for instance
(a) name of country, city, and state; (b) name of group,
coalition, or individual; (c) events being planned; (d) land
address; (e) email address; (f) telephone number; (g) fax
number; (h) web site, (j) mailing list. When you send in
your contact information, please write “New M1 contact in
[your country, city/location]” in the subject field.
If
you have not got access to email, you can send in your
contact information by filling in a form at the
International Lobster Party web site at
Please note that the contacts list
is public.
The resources list gives information about
resources that can be of use for co-ordinative and
preparatory work, including networking, e.g. mailing lists,
news groups, and web sites, and also texts useful for
networking, such as Mayday information in various languages,
and a few directories of activist-minded groups around the
world.
II. CONTACTS
(# countries: 21, # specific
locations: 73)
*
Plans: Carnival against Capitalism
Email:
jon_dafydd@hotmail.com
* Earthdream
2000
Plans: A three month anti nuke convoy kicking off on
May 1, crossing the centre of Australia to Jabiluka, and
involving a cross section of motivated people determined to
forge a new movement towards a more sustainable
future.
Email: ohmsnotbombs@microsuxx.com
*
MD2k Sydney
Email:
mayday2k@doityourself.com
*
Van Badham
Email:
cippra@speedlink.com.au
* Email: (1st:)
mayday2000graz@hotmail.com,
(2nd:)
i_furiosi@email.com
Web site:
http//www.blubb.at/mayday
Plans: Juntos com outros companheiros e
coletivos, estamos discutindo a preparação da Ação Global
contra o Capitalismo no próximo 1º de maio. Com a completa
burocratização do movimento sindical e camponês, a
possibilidade de se construir ações autônomas, em
articulação não-hierárquica em nível mundial, é de grande
importância. O princípio fundamental deve ser: organizar a
autonomia local, com democracia e ação direta, e unir em
nível mundial, contra o poder das corporações e seus
instrumentos: os Estados nacionais, a OMC, o Banco Mundial e
o FMI. Nossas ações, múltiplas; nossa lema, único: "nossa
luta deve ser tão transnacional como é o
capital".
E-mail:
contraacorrente@zipmail.com.br
*
Coligação: Comitê de Solidariedade às Comunidades Zapatistas
(Ceará), Movimento de Estudantes Revolucionários, Centro de
Cultura e Organização Proletária e Coletivo
contra-a-corrente.
Plans: Estamos planejando fazer a
campanha da Ação Global contra o Capitalismo (1º de
maio/2000) junto com a campanha contra a comemoração oficial
dos 500 anos da "descoberta" do Brasil. A idéia que está
sendo discutida é fazer no 1º de maio um bloco carnavalesco.
Email: contraacorrente@zaz.com.br
Plans: Uma
marcha de protesto entre Santos e São Vicente. Ponto de
concentração no Mercado Municipal de Santos à partir das
11:30 horas; a marcha partirá às 13 horas do Mercado
Municipal. A caminhada terá por volta de 10 quilômetros. Na
Praça da Biquinha encerraríamos o protesto com um ato
político/cultural com microfone aberto, performances,
apresentações de Hip Hop, acústicos etc. Estamos
considerando de extrema importância a participação de
indivíduos e grupos de fora da Baixada Santista. Queremos
que o 1 de Maio volte a ser um dia dos de baixo. Um dia
classista, um dia de luta e combate.
Email:
m_reboucas@yahoo.com
Plans:
Provide info on M1 events across Canada.
Email:
mike@flora.org
Web site:
http://wtocaravan.org/mayday2k/
*
Ahimsazine
Plans: Networking with supporters
Land
address: D. Affinity Place, Argenta BC Canada V0G
1B0
Telephone: Dick Martin 250 366 4682
Email:
ahimsazine@xoommail.com
Web site:
http://members.xoom.com/AhimsaZine
* a
coalition of various anarchist activist groups
Plans:
Independent, noisy colored mayday demonstration in one of
the richest areas of Montreal. Meeting at metro station Guy
at 17:30 on May 1.
Email: mainnoire@altern.org
*
Plans: Make and distribute fliers. Perhaps rally and general
boycott like buy-nothing-day.
Email:
hoipolloi@supernet.ca
* Email:
briane@tao.ca
* Stephen Kerr (International
Socialists, International Solidarity with Workers in Russia,
Toronto Anti-WTO Coalition)
Telephone: 416-778-1319
Email: stephen.kerr@sympatico.ca
*
Vancouver Committee Against Corporate
Globalization
Email: vcacg@tao.ca
*
Resist Corporate Rule
Telephone: (250)
384-4676
Email:resistcr@hotmail.com
Web site:
http://www.tao.ca/~resist
* The
Corrupt Party
Plans: Standing in local elections with a
manifesto, campaign literature etc. as autonomously
organised local pro-active alternative to simply saying
"don't vote". The focus is on local issues and the
corruption of other, "genuine", candidates. Contact us to be
updated on developments. We intend to join in the London
activities around May 1.
Land address: c/o LAG, The
Basement, Single Step, Penny St, Lancaster
Email:
lancs_ag@hotmail.com
Web site:
http://msnhomepages.talkcity.com/CapitolDr/thecorruptparty
* Email: dewijac@yahoo.com
* MayDay
2000
Plans: “MAYDAY 2000: A Festival of Anarchist Ideas
and Action”, 28th April - May 1.
Land address: BM Mayday,
London, WC1N 3XX, UK
Telephone/Fax: +44 (0) 20 8374
5027
Press enquiries: 07989 451 096
Email enquiries:
mayday2k@email.com
Web site:
http://www.freespeech.org/mayday2k/
Discussion list: To
join the UK mailing list, send a blank email
to
* Reclaim the
Streets
Land address: RTS, PO Box 9656, London N4
4JY
Telephone: 0171.281 4621
Email:
rts@gn.apc.org
Web site: www.gn.apc.org/rts
* South
Kilburn Anarchists & Radicals
Plans: Resistance to police
brutality
Email: skar6@hotmail.com
* London May Day
2000 Group
Plans: Loud music; flag burning;
partying
Email: email@mayday2000.org.uk
Web site:
http://www.mayday2000.org.uk
* Reclaim the Satyagraha!
(Group promoting nonviolent direct action and nonviolent
revolution or transformation of society.)
Plans: Workshop
as part of Mayday2000 conference
Land address: Reclaim
the Satyagraha!, c/o Nonviolent Action, 5 Caledonian Road,
London N1
Contact Email: enquiries@satyagraha.org
Web
site: http://www.satyagraha.org
* Manchester
May Day 2000 coalition
(Open to all; come and get
involved.)
Plans: Carnival, Open Forum, Teach-In,
Festival, March, Direct Actions, Workshops, and much, much
more. We want to make Mayday 2000 the biggest demonstration
of solidarity in Manchester ever. Contact details and event
listings are available on the web site.
Fax: (0870)
131-8428
Email: nnc@mayday2000.fsnet.co.uk
Web site:
http://www.mayday2000.fsnet.co.uk
* Email:
francescofranco@hotmail.com
* Sheffield
Mayday
(Meetings open for anyone to attend.)
Email:
sheffieldmayday@disinfo.net
Web site:
http://www.sheffieldmayday.ukf.net
(updated regularly
with details of next meetings etc.)
*
Southampton Mayday 2000 group
Land address: Southampton
Mayday, c/o October Books, 4 Onslow Road, Southampton,
UK
Email: a183099@hotmail.com
* South
West (UK) Mayday
(Bristol, Exeter, etc.)
Email:
mail@maydaysw.fsnet.co.uk
Web site:
http://www.maydaysw.fsnet.co.uk
Web site:
http://go.to/mayday2000
* Plans: Demonstration
for humanity against capitalism from Harjutori, Sörnäinen,
Helsinki 1st of May 2000 12.00. Issues: against wage
slavery; for free movement of people, international
solidarity and the destruction of the Fortress Europe; for
an end to biotechnology, and for the liberty and right of
peasant communities
to survive.
Web site:
http://go.to/mayday2000
* Association “Nantes Est Une Fête !”
(N.E.U.F.)
Plans: May Day's Eve. Fête populaire,
exposition, animations de rue contre les paradis fiscaux et
la dictature des marchés financiers. Party against the
dictatorship of the financial markets. A citizens' gathering
without money, violence, a leading organisation or hegemonic
publicity, against stock exchanges, interest rates, fiscal
paradises, and for taxation of speculative financial income.
In front of the stock exchange in the night between April 30
and May 1. Meet at Place de la Bourse.
Email:
douillard@calvanet.calvacom.fr
Web site:
http://www.multimania.com/neuf/
* NEUF (Nantes
Est Une Fête), CROAC (Collectif pour un Réveillon
Ostensiblement Anti-Capitaliste), Attac 44 (Nantes), Attac
Paris 11ème, Attac 93 sud, des membres des comités Attac 95,
Attac Paris 20ème et d'autres comités Attac en
France.
Plans: May Day's Eve. Fête populaire, exposition,
animations de rue contre les paradis fiscaux et la dictature
des marchés financiers. Party against the dictatorship of
the financial markets. A citizens' gathering without money,
violence, a leading organisation or hegemonic publicity,
against stock exchanges, interest rates, fiscal paradises,
and for taxation of speculative financial income. In front
of the stock exchange in the night between April 30 and May
1. Meet at Place de la Bourse.
Web sites: (NEUF)
http://www.multimania.com/neuf/ et (ATTAC 11)
http://www.local.attac.org/paris11/reveillon.htm
Contacts:
- un groupe animations de rue
Coordinateur
Jean-Michel Ripaud (Cergy)
Tel.: 01 34 25 93 85
Email:
jdr@mageos.com
- un groupe administratif (assurances,
autorisation) :
Coordinateur Glen Millot (Paris
11ème)
Tel.: 01 49 29 70 24
Email:
glenmillot@altern.org
- un groupe
logistique-stands
Coordinatrice Christine Daniel
(Montreuil)
Tel.: 01 48 57 40 50
Email:
carabosse@magic.fr
- un groupe repas
Coordinateur
Serge Verveur (Montreuil)
Tel.: 01 48 57 40 50
Email:
sergio@magic.fr
- un groupe musique-contacts assoc
(groupes + intervenants)
Coordinateur Christophe Noisette
(Paris 10ème)
Tel. dom: 01 42 02 55 74
Tel bur: 01 48
51 65 40
Email: noisette@altern.org
- un groupe expo
(expositions, banderoles, déco)
Coordinatrice Valentine
Labourey (Paris 20ème)
Tel.: 01 40 33 13 70 et 06 86 93
97 25
Email: dieka@netcourrier.com
- un groupe
médias-annonces (relations-presse, affichage,
tracts)
Coordinatrice Anne Bosser (Paris 18ème)
Tel.
01 42 51 49 82
Email:
a_bosser@club-internet.fr
* Shudoda,
c/o Infoladen Daneben Berlin
Plans: Action on
Airport
Email: resonanzxx@gmx.net
* Plans: A
Reclaim the Streets action on April 30.
Land address:
JUMP-Hamburg, Postfach: 306137, 20327 Hamburg
Email:
Sublimago@gmx.de
* Plans: Revolutionären 1.
Mai Demo 2000. Revolutionary MayDay Manifestation,
Paradeplatz, 11h.
Contact: j.m
Land address:
Hafenstrasse 43, Zi. 008, D-68159 Mannheim
Telephone: +49
621 159 7322
Email:
andreas.mueller.am3@t-online.de
* IMUN
Bochum (probably Oberhausen)
Email: imun@gmx.de
*
Mayday2k Ruhr-Area
Plans: "Tanz in den Mai2000". Am
30.April, ein Festival zu machen, und in den Mai hinein zu
tanzen. Im westlichen Teil des Ruhrpotts (Ruhrgebiet,
Deutschland). Wir werden uns einen Teil des öffentlichen
Raumes zurücknehmen, und ein Festival feiern. Bands on
stage, hiphop, punk, ska, soundsystems, techno, theater,
performance, Artistik, Feuershow, Multimedia, Bar,
Straßenküche.... Einige Bands/Leute haben schon zugesagt,
aber es ist Immer noch Platz für mehr, für deine/eure
Aktion!
Treffpunkt ist das AZ Mülheim, Auerstr.51 in
Mülheim/Ruhr, um 15 Uhr (pünktlich!). Mehr Information
unter: 0049(0)177.8392739
Email: tanzmayday@gmx.de
Web
site: http://squat.net/tanzmayday/
Email: j18hellas@hotmail.com
Web site:
http://www.geocities.com/j18hellas
Web site: http://www.go.to/mayday2000it
or
http://italy.int.fortunecity.com/centro/democrazia/2/
(Informazioni
su Mayday 2000 in italiano. Informazioni su eventi,
iniziative e contatti per Mayday 2000 in paesi di lingua
italiana.)
* Circolo ARCI agorà (Associazione
Ricreativa Culturale Italiana)
Land address: Via Bovio
48, 56125 Pisa
Telephone: ++39-050-500442
Fax:
++39-050-2208259
Email: agorapi@officinaweb.it
Web
site: http://www.archicoop.it/agora
* Groups:
COBAS - Confederazione dei Comitati di Base, Associazione
Nazionale Antirazzista 3 Febbraio, Coordinamento Lavoratori
e Lavoratrici Roma Ovest, Socialismo Rivoluzionario,
Ricomincio dal Faro, Comitato di Iniziativa Laica e
Libertaria, Senza Confine, Coordinamento Cittadino di Lotta
per la Casa, Sin.Cobas, Roman federation of Rifondazione
Comunista. More organizations likely to join.
Plans:
National demonstration. For the official call to join action
(in Italian), visit www.claronet.it/primomaggio.htm
.
Telephone: (+39)06-78348282 / (+39)06-70452452 /
(+39)06-7001784 / (+39)06-4103294
Fax:
(+39)06-78348283 / (+39)06-77206060
Email:
claro@claronet.it
Web site: www.claronet.it
Email: aprendere@latinmail.com
Web site:
www.geocities.com/aprendere
* Email:
aladoser@yahoo.com
* Eventos planeadas:
volanteos, platicas o conferencias, fanzines que hablen
s/globalizacion, capitalismo, economia de mercados y
sus
consecuencias.
Correo electrónico: esplin@hotmail.com o
tecui@hotmail.com
Telephone: 0031 30 2870711
Plans and
contacts:
** March on the Royals - popular party against
monarchy, state and capital. April 29.
Email:
beakomt@squat.net
Web site:
http://squat.net/beakomt
** On Sunday April 30th a direct
action rave party will start confronting capitalism on a
still secret location, continuing for several days. All
kinds of action, direct and fun; an explosion of creativity
as an alternative to the mechanical asphalt capitalism.
Bring food, drink, warm clothes and a blanket.
Meeting point: Leiden, Boerhavelaan 345 (Eurodusnie), at
14.00h
Email: mayd@dds.nl
Web site:
www.antenna.nl/bn/mayday
** Action trip against
capitalism to Pyrenees: Aspe and Itoiz.
April 30 - May
16
Email: flip@casema.net
Web site:
www.antenna.nl/nvda/aspe
Email: bn@antenna.nl
Web site:
http://www.antenna.nl/~bn
* DWARS (Dutch
green-left organization for young people)
Plans: Action
against Randstad holding. 1 May 14.00 AM, Oudegracht 229,
Utrecht.
Telephone: +31 30 2333263
Fax: +31 30
2400338
Email: dwars-ut@dds.nl
Web site:
http://www.dwars.org
Email:
nzmayday2k@hotmail.com
Web
site:
http://www.angelfire.com/wv/nzmayday2k/NZMayDay2000.html
Discussion
list: To join the New Zealand discussion list, send a blank
email to
* Plans: March
down Queen St.
Email: strypey@yahoo.com
* Plans:
Festival, with bands and so on aimed at increasing
particularly young peoples’ interest in and knowledge of
Unions.
Email: kolontai@rocketmail.com
*
Plans: Critical mass bike ride down Victoria St.
Email:
strypey@yahoo.com
* Email:
nzmice@hotmail.com
Attempting to find other groups
activities, in order to co-ordinate, or at least not cross
paths.
Plans:
In general, to promote the process of rebuilding the
structures for struggle; plans for action will become more
concrete by time. Reach out to workers, students, minorities
and ethnic
nationality organisations, etc.
Contact:
oilwatch@infoweb.abs.net
* Awami
Committee for Development
Land address: P.O. Box 598,
Multan
Fax: 92-61-586764
Email contact:
asif35@hotmail.com
* The Slovak
section of Czechoslovak anarchist federation
Plans:
Informing people about the IMF/WB and their policy as a part
of capialist globalization. Infopanels set up on the square
(on IMF/WB, globalization, PGA, resistance photos and
anarchist alternative). Leaflets, posters and magazines will
be distributed. The Food not Bombs collective will prepare
vegan food for all. We
invited drummers and street
artists.
Email: csaf-sk@post.sk
* Diversos colectivos de la ciudad (Agitacio,
Maulets, Dones sobversives, Dones Revolucionaries, Joves del
Casal.)
Plans: Jornadas Anti-capitalistas desde el 25 de
abril hasta el 1 de mayo: pases de video sobre el FMI y el
Cabanyal, un barrio de València que esta en peligro. Pase de
la pelicula Tiempos modernos de Chaplin. Mesa redonda con
sindicatos (CGT, Solidaridad Obrera, COS (sindicato
nacionalista). Jam literaria. Bici-Manifestación recorriendo
la ciudad. Fiesta con concierto. Mural reivindicando la
lucha contra el capital... y alguna cosilla más que se nos
ocurra.
Land address: Aptdo 87 de Elx
Email:
agitacio@mixmail.com
* ATTAC
(Savoie), ATTAC (Rhone), ATTAC (Isere)
Évènements,
actions prévus (Plans): Happening in the night with dance
and music.
Adresse (Land address): ATTAC SAVOIE, 150
chemin du Frettey, 73230 St Alban Leysse (France)
Adresse electronique (Email): savoie@attac.org
Numéro de téléphone (Telephone number): (33) 04 79 85 82
82
Site web (web site): http://www.attac.org
*
Association “Nantes Est Une Fête !” (N.E.U.F.), CROAC
(Collectif pour un Réveillon Ostensiblement
Anti-Capitaliste), Attac 44 (Nantes), Attac Paris 11ème,
Attac 93 sud, des membres des comités Attac 95, Attac Paris
20ème et d'autres comités Attac en France.
Plans: May
Day's Eve. Fête populaire, exposition, animations de rue
contre les paradis fiscaux et la dictature des marchés
financiers. Party against the dictatorship of the financial
markets. A citizens' gathering without money, violence, a
leading organisation or hegemonic publicity, against stock
exchanges, interest rates, fiscal paradises, and for
taxation of speculative financial income. In front of the
stock exchange in the night between April 30 and May 1. Meet
at Place de la Bourse.
Email:
douillard@calvanet.calvacom.fr
Web site:
http://www.multimania.com/neuf/
* Plans: 28 avril - 1er
mai: Journées globales d'actions et de réflexions sur
l'anti-capitalisme.
Email: infokiosk@under.ch ou
usine@usine.ch
* c.s.o.a. Il Molino
(self-managed squatted social center)
Plans: To involve
other groups in Italy and Switzerland in a co-organized
trans-national action/demo in the border town of Chiasso.
Proposed main topics: "immigration policy", labor and
workers, underemployment and unemployment, and a women's
march. But these are just tentative; final decisions will be
made with other groups that get involved. See original
proposal at
www.ecn.org/lists/internazionale/200002/msg00074.html
Land
address: Piano La Stampa, 6952 Canobbio-Lugano
Telephone:
++41-91-9421296
Fax: ++41-91-9421220
Email:
molino@cybernet.ch
Web site: www.ecn.org/molino or
www.ecn.org/agp
Mailing list: see
www.ecn.org/lists/caravan99
Email:
antimai@antimai.org
Web site:
www.antimai.org
* Ankara anarchists
Plans:
Participation in MayDay demonstrations with banners and
black flags.
Email: ankara_anarchists@hotmail.com
Web
site: http://go.to/a_turkey
* Progressive Alliance of
HSU
Plans: A May Day festival and rally for the campus of
Humboldt State University.
Land address: Office of Clubs
& Activities, University Center, HSU, Arcata, CA USA
95521
Voicemail: (707) 441-7160
Fax: (call for fax
#)
Email: progress@axe.humboldt.edu
Web site:
http://www.humboldt.edu/~progress
*
Plans: A day of action and education.
Contact: Conan
Riojas
Land address: 8014 Dead Indian Memorial Rd.,
Ashland,
Oregon 97520
Telephone:
541-488-9471
Email:
rioj7837@students.sou.edu
*
Nosotros Group
Plans: Mid-Atlantic Anarchist Bookfair,
April 29th noon till 7 p.m. plus other events
throughout
the weekend.
Land address: Nosotros Group, PO Box 65341,
Baltimore, MD 21209
Email: durruti36@aol.com
* Berkshire Radical Labor
Council
Email: genchad3@aol.com
Plans: Street theater
at several prominent locations around
Berkshire County.
Possible Caravan to NYC.
* Boston
Encuentro, Sabate Anarchist Group
Plans: Anti-Capitalist
Festival of Resistance
Land address: c/o Lucy Parsons
Center, 549 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA 02118
Email:
bostonmayday2k@juno.com
* Chicago
Mayday Coalition
Plans: March and actions
Discussion
list:
(list manager:
kimkates@aol.com)
Web site: www.chicagomayday.org
**
Art & Revolution
Contact: Kelly Ann Norris
Telephone:
773-645-9211
Email: kellyann_n@yahoo.com
**
Autonomous Zone (A-zone)
Land address: 2012 W. Chicago
Ave.
Mail address: 1573 N. Milwaukee Ave., PMB 420,
Chicago, IL 60622
Telephone: 773-252-6019
Email:
azone@wwa.com
* People Over Profits
Coaltion
Plans: Possible events are mock fashion show
with MU sweatshop apparel, guerilla theatre, march, rally,
strike, shutdown of major area highway.
Contact: Molly
Dupre
Land address: 1501 Rosemary #A, Columbia, MO
65201
Telephone: (573) 443-8891
Email:
c718841@showme.missouri.edu
* Winfred Richardson
Land address: P.O. Box 94,
Lone Oak, Tex 75453
Telephone: 903-447-4211
Email:
patriot001@directlink.net
* Direct
Action Network-May Day working group
(Meeting on March
14 at 7 pm at American Friends Service Committee, 901 W.
14th Ave.)
Plans: Fr, April 28: Critical mass bike ride,
Pedestrian Street Jam, Kick off Party; Sa, April 29: Food
not bombs vegan food at 4pm; Su, April 30: Carnival,
speakers, theatre, performances, music at City Park Band
Shell 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., pep rally and speakers; Mo, May 1:
Phone in sick day, student walk out, street actions, radical
cheerleading squad, flying sticker brigade, labor?, marches,
street theatre, the giant puppet show.
Land address: 1154
Corona St., Apt. 1, Denver, CO 80218-2820
Telephone:
303-832-8628 (day hrs) or 303-839-8428 (evening
hrs)
Email: jcdreier@yahoo.com
*
Coalition of different collectives (Active Transformation,
Brown Berets de Aztlan, ARA and IWW), but looking to build a
broad coalition with lefties, church groups, unions, etc.
Plans: Points of unity: (1) Amnesty for all immigrants
(2) Stop Police Brutality (3) Fight Global Capitalism. March
through Southwest Detroit, puppets, street theater. Possible
action at Ambassador Bridge and Southwest Detroit's 3rd
police precinct.
Land address: c/o Active
Transformation, PO Box 11508, Detroit, MI 48211
Telephone: 313.841.0838
Fax: 313.841.0071
Email:
risinupangry@hotmail.com
* Eugene Active
Existence
Plans: Carnival Against Capital - Reclaim,
Revolt, Remember
Land address: P.O. Box 11331, Eugene,
Oregon 97440
Email: eae@efn.org
Web site:
http://fruitiondesign.com/eae/
*
Plans: Labor videos, march/critical mass, speakout, picnic,
dance party, etc. and pirate radio broadcast of the events.
On April 28-30, campout in Ocala National Forest with
workshops on labor history, diy health, practical anarchism,
genetic engineering, globalization (WTO/IMF etc.), radical
cheerleading, radical women's history, sustainability,
homebrewing, polyamory, pagan culture, kids crafts,
midwifery, herbalism, composting, etc., an acoustic music
festival, and much involvement from Food Not Bombs, Earth
First, IWW, and the Radical Cheerleaders.
Land address:
P.O. Box 2671, Gainesville, FL 32602-2671
Telephone:
(727) 538-9050
Email:
Web site:
www.geocities.com/maydayflorida/
* Samm
Email: mizanthropic@yahoo.com
Web
site: http://come.to/ms.anthropy
*
Email: kevin@dsndata.com
* May Day 2000
Organizing Committee (Modern Times Collective, LI Students
for Peace and Justice, etc.)
Plans: May Day 2000
Campaign: DIY Flea Market (Feb 11); teach-in on IMF, World
Bank, and WTO (Feb 15 & 17); 'Seattle was only the
Beginning' Youth Conference (March 4); protest in
Washington, D.C. against IMF and World Bank (April 16);
Street Party and Critical Mass against Neo-Liberalism (April
29)
Email: mayday2000@aao.net or mtc@aao.net
Web site:
www.aao.net
* LAM1 Collective
Reclaim The Streets in Beverly Hills
Mailing
Address: Black Star Collective, PO Box 88732,
LA, CA
90009, USA
Telephone: (310)712-5492
Email:
LAMayday@disinfo.net
* contact for anarchist
organizing
Email: jhendric@csulb.edu
* Wisconsin Earth Day to May Day
Coalition
Plans: Earth Day to May Day
events
Telephone: 608-255-1800 and 608-262-9036
Land
address: 31 University Square, Taychopera, Madison,
Wisconsin 53713
Email: not known
* CWGEA
Contact:
Jefe
Email: cwgea@hotmail.com
* May Day Organizing Collective
(We meet
every Thursday at 6:00 at Guslucky's, 16th Ave. and Lake
St.)
Plans: At 11 am, Peavey Plaza (11th and Nicollet)
Downtown Mpls. We're taking over one of the nerve centers of
Global Capitalism and transforming it into a spoce of
community and
Revolution... March, Rally, Direct Action,
Music, Fun.
Telephone: (612) 676-2188
Email:
maydaympls@hotmail.com or maydaympls@hotmail.com
*
power4u
Email: power4u@mtn.org
* MayDay organizing committee for New Orleans,
LA
Plans: A campaign to raise New Orleanians out of
poverty, to raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour, for May
Day to be a legal holiday, and to erase all debts owed by
workers. Also actions.
Phone number: (504) 945-4652 or
(504) 897-3310
Web Site:
http://www.angelfire.com/la2/neworleansanarchists/mayday.index
Email:
* Email:
Nitsu1999@aol.com
Discussion list:
* the Surveillance
Camera Players (SCP)
Plans: At 9 am, Eastern Standard
Time, on 1 May, performance in front of two so-called
webcams installed in the windows of Lindy's Restaurant, at
45th Street and Broadway, Times Square, Manhattan. Attend in
person or watch at
www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/cam1.html or, if
your browser can't handle Java scripting,
www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/cam1_nojava.html;
or at www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/cam3.html or,
if your browser can't handle Java scripting
www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/cam3_nojava.html
Email:
notbored@panix.com
* Email:
kitchenwitchrune@yahoo.com
*
Billy Novotny (President of the Student Coalition at the
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma)
Plans:
Non-violent demonstration in downtown Oklahoma City
consisting of posting flyers, sidewalk chalking, and other
possible protest actions.
Email:
bilnovo@email.msn.com
Web site:
http://ablyss.homestead.com
*
Mayday Action Committee
Plans: Groups and individuals
working together for a weeklong festival/conference with
awareness raising, and preparation for enormous direct
action and celebration on May 1.
Meetings: Sundays at 3
p.m. at the Praxis community organizing center
Telephone: (1) 360-236-8859
Email:
mayday2k@graffiti.net
Web site:
www.mayday2k.org/oly
*
possibly Philadelphia Direct Action Network (yet to be
decided)
Plans: Action in Philadelphia or traveling to
New York.
Email:
danceandscream@gardener.com
Telephone: 1-888-341-6587
(voicemail for Philadelphia based Animal Defense
League -
PA)
*
Plans: Carnival against capitalism
Contact: Zeljko (Jake)
Cipris
Land address: 90 Undercliff Road, Millburn, NJ
07041
Telephone: 973-467-6773
Email:
Zcipris@aol.com
* Arizona Direct
Action
Email: scarab@futureone.com
Discussion list: To
join the Southwest USA regional mailing list, go to
* Liberation Collective
Not
directly organizing any of the actions, but a resource for
those looking to get involved. Provides planning meeting
times for the different contingents or dates and times of
the Mayday events.
Plans: Several actions across the city
to celebrate Mayday, including marches, street parties, and
a picnic.
Land address: 2 NW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR
97209
Telephone: (503) 525-4975
Email:
libco@mail.com
* Email:
tuned_out_1999@yahoo.com
*
Thorn
Plans: Presumably larger action.
Land address:
Box 138, Boonville, CA 95415
Email: thorn@pacific.net
Telephone: 707-937-4551 or, on Th & Fr, 707-468-1660
Fax to: attention'thorn' (Mendocino Environmental
Center) 707-462-2370
* Plans: Big May Day celebration,
probably some sort of celebration on Sunday, and
action(s)/celebration(s) on Monday.
Email:
sfmayday2000@yahoo.com
Telephone: 415 339-7801
x2
* Students for Economic
Democracy (University of Washington)
Plans: Mobilize
students to participate in city-wide actions. Also events
leading up to M1, including Int'l Women's Day, IMF teach-in,
and Non-Corporate Earth Day.
Contact: seastar
Email:
seastar@outlawmail.com
Web site:
http://students.washington.edu/nowto/
* Seattle
I.W.W.
Plans: Labor/Neighbor May Day Celebration Regrade
Park, Belltown, 5pm. A cultural and politcal event that will
include music and speakers, emphasize the need to
re-recognize the real Labor Day, and its importance to the
struggle for the here and now.
Land address: 5215
Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98117
Telephone:
206-706-6250
Email: bp172@scn.org
* Email: Pnywise123@aol.com
News group /
message board: ctAnarchy@onelist.com
* nameless anarchist group
Plans: Festival.
Anyone from the area, please attend! Free music, giant
puppet, drum circle, play hooky from work!
Land address:
P.O. Box 2407, Springfield, IL 62705
Telephone: (217)
528-7879
Email: zomba@cityscape.net
* Mid-Atlantic Infoshop
Plans:
See web sites below. Leaning towards creative and fun
activities. Also encouraging folks to go to New York
City.
Email: chuck@tao.ca
Web sites:
http://www.disfigurine.com/mayday/ (D.C. events) and
http://www.infoshop.org/mayday2000.html (May Day around the
world)
* Global Unity Movement
Plans: Caravan from
California to Washington D.C. to shutdown the IMF and World
Bank meetings on April 16-17. In further planning we will
probably have more of an idea of where we will be on May 1.
We are looking for any kind of support on the East Coast.
Email: globalunity@home.com
*
Email: dewijac@yahoo.com
III. RESOURCES
Please do set up a
list for your own language, country or city, if you feel it
is needed!
Some companies give you a free email address
you can name by yourself and that will not be easily
traceable to you. The company may choose to reveal your
identity, so it is not 100% 'safe'. Free email providers
include www.hotmail.com, www.yahoo.com, www.mailexcite.com,
www.rocketmail.com, www.geocities.com, and
www.mailcity.com.
For discussion, co-ordination, and announcements
surrounding the May 1 Global Day of Action. The primary
language is English. There is one moderated and one
unmoderated list.
** Moderated list
This list aims at strictly
organisational work around Mayday, which involves
networking, announcements of planned actions, discussions
about ideas for actions etc. Being moderated, the traffic on
the list is not too intensive. A collective of moderators
allows for the discussion to flow well without too much
disruption. Join at www.onelist.com/subscribe/mayday2k-mod,
or send a blank email to
** Unmoderated
list
The original
English-language international mailing list for MayDay, and
although originally meant for strictly organisational work,
this list has in effect developed into a forum for the
international Mayday email activist community (or the few –
currently around 230 people - who can handle much traffic)
to make announcements, spread information, and conduct
discussions about the broad range of issues that are of
concern to the people of that community, although often of
little or no bearing to strictly organisational work around
Mayday. Members have access to a calendar and files area,
where they are encouraged to place files (posters, flyers,
stickers, etc.) Join at www.onelist.com/subscribe/mayday2k,
or send a blank email to
subscribe pga-org
end
Ireland specific anti-WTO
mailing list. Join by sending a blank email to
(subject specific discussion
list)
Email list dedicated to propaganda. People and
groups post the texts of their pamphlets etc., for anyone to
copy and use. To join, send an empty message to
For more information,
email
Regular, low-traffic information (2 to 4
messages per week) surrounding Mayday: translations of the
Mayday 2000 information text, updates of the international
contacts and resources list, information about mailing lists
and major web sites, updates about preparations and events
leading up to Mayday, and eventually reports from the
actions of the day itself. Please send an empty email
message to
A
club dedicated to discussing and promoting the Mayday
protests, and opportunities to take action.
If you want to set up a web page, some
companies provide space in return for advertising on your
pages. Be warned that they may remove your pages if they do
not like what you say. Free page providers include
www.geocities.com and www.tripod.com .
Contact:
lobster_party@hotmail.com
(Full international contacts
list. Groups intending to take action can directly submit
their contact info to the International Contacts and
Resources List, by filling in a form on the web site. Many
downloadable resources for co-ordination and promotion.
Links to other Mayday sites and to Mayday history.)
Contact:
chuck@tao.ca
(Links to several local Mayday sites around
the world.)
(Info on M1 events
across Canada; a nice collection of M1 banners. Focus on the
PGA.)
Contact:
rabble@Protest.Net
(The full Mayday 2000 International
Contacts and Resources List, though possibly not the most
recent one.)
Contact:
amr_hki@hotmail.com
(General international Mayday
information. Some banners and links.)
http://www.freespeech.org/inter/mayday2k/
(Information
about Mayday 2000 in Italian. Information on events, actions
and contacts for Mayday 20000 in Italian speaking
countries.
Informazioni su Mayday 2000 in italiano.
Informazioni su eventi, iniziative e contatti per Mayday
2000 in paesi di lingua italiana.)
Contact:
antimai@antimai.org
(Turkish only at the moment.)
Contact:
nnc@mayday2000.fsnet.co.uk
(Manchester focus.)
(London focus.)
The text has been translated into
different languages, and these translations are displayed at
www.lobsterparty.org .
To get any of them as a file,
either download from that site or see instructions below.
“Request:
Arabic translation of Mayday information text”
“Request:
Catalan translation of Mayday information text”
“Request:
Czech translation of Mayday information text”
“Request:
Mayday 2000 information text”
“Request: Finnish translation of
Mayday information text”
“Request: French translation of Mayday
information text”
“Request: German translation of
Mayday information text”
“Request: Italian translation of
Mayday information text”
“Pedido: Proposta para Dia de Acção
Global 1 de Maio”
“Request: Spanish translation of
Mayday information text”
“Önskas: Svensk översättning av
Mayday-information”
“Request: Turkish translation of Mayday
information text”
Download from
http://www.lobster1.dircon.co.uk/downloads/all_downloads.html
or write to
“Request: Mayday 2000 International Contacts and
Resources List”
A
new-born world-wide directory with the ambitious aim of
listing all the group in the world, in every country, that
we might like to involve in a Global Day of Action against
Capitalism. Today’s most extensive directory of its kind
available on the internet, but still incomplete. (Help
needed. Please contact
When coming
to this page, click the link marked “links”, which will take
you to an enormous and well-sorted directory of links to
activist groups around the world. A good starting point for
networking in any given country. On the links page, do not
forget to check the link marked “addresses”, which leads to
a few other very useful directories.
This is a list of
alternative media outlets that will cover Mayday 2000
actions from all over the world.
DAMN is a news service that gathers and
distributes multi-media coverage of progressive protests,
demonstrations, marches, strikes and other types of actions.
DAMN news reaches thousands of activists,
soon-to-be-activists and interested non-activists around the
world through our mailing lists (damn@tao.ca) and web site
(http://damn.tao.ca). We will work with www.indymedia.org to
provide a place for you to post information about your
actions on Mayday 2000.
Print Team Coordinator for
DAMN's Mayday 2000 coverage is Rachel Rinaldo. Articles may
be emailed to the damn list: damn@tao.ca or directly to
Rachel at rarinald@midway.uchicago.edu (email either as part
of text or as attachment is OK). Photos can either be
included as attachments in email, or sent as hard copy to
Rachel. Let us know if someone else took photographs or if
you know of any video or audio reports done about the event.
To post multimedia reports you may go to "www.rewire.org"
which will allow them to go straight up to the indymedia.org
web site.
For more information, contact Rachel Rinaldo,
2057 N. Albany #3 South, Chicago, IL 60647, USA,
rarinald@midway.uchicago.edu, Phone/Fax: 773-645-1726
For more information on DAMN, including DAMN’s
guidelines for how to write reports, check out our web site
at "http://damn.tao.ca" or drop a line at
IV. THE MAYDAY 2000 GLOBAL
DAY OF ACTION
May 1 will be the next Global Day of Action
against Capitalism after June 18 and November 30 last year.
Many groups around the world are preparing for this event,
in recognition that the capitalist system, based on the
exploitation of people, societies and the environment for
the profit of a few, is the prime cause of our social and
ecological troubles. May 1 will offer a perfect symbolic and
real opportunity to build up our struggles against it.
Activists in New York are planning to close down Wall
Street, and in London there will be a four-day long carnival
against capitalism. Other major cities involved are Sydney
(Australia), Toronto, Vancouver (Canada), Liverpool,
Manchester, Sheffield (England), Hamburg (Germany), Rome
(Italy), Auckland (New Zealand), Boston, Chicago, Dallas,
Detroit, Los Angeles, New Orleans, San Francisco, Seattle,
and Washington (USA). The international contacts list, which
is growing every day now, includes groups and coalitions in
21 countries and more than 70 cities around the world. In
addition, May 1 has been endorsed as a Day of Action by the
Peoples’ Global Action (PGA) international conference in
India in August.
May 1 proceeds from the successes of the
previous Global Days of Action against Capitalism on June 18
and November 30 last year, and expands on them in the same
spirit. Through those Days of Action our networks grew, we
learned much, and we saw many new people engage themselves.
May 1 will continue this process of building up a strong,
bold, and creative grassroots movement against the
exploitation and oppression of people, communities, and the
environment, and for solidarity, co-operation, grassroots
democracy, and ecological sustainability. It will foster
networking and shared organizing within our communities. For
since diverse issues often can be considered from point of
view of a comprehensive critique of the capitalist system,
May 1 will be a good opportunity for bringing separate
struggles and actions together. While also raising awareness
about local and global issues, and about their
interrelationship, the Day will increase global solidarity.
The Day will thus facilitate mobilization for large-scale
actions, which can have an empowering effect on individuals
and communities alike.
As on previous occasions, people
of different movements and different countries will
therefore join forces on this Day against the social,
political, and economic institutions of the capitalist
system. Workers, the unemployed, students, trade unionists,
peasants, the landless, fishers, women groups, ethnic
minorities, indigenous peoples, peace activists,
environmental activists, ecologists, and so on will work in
solidarity with one another in the understanding that their
various struggles are not isolated from each other. The
simultaneous occupation and transformation of the capitalist
social order around the globe – in the streets,
neighbourhoods, fields, factories, offices, commercial
centres, financial districts, and so on – will strengthen
mutual bonds at the local, national, and international
levels.
As before, the Day will be organised in a
non-hierarchical way, as a decentralised and informal
network of grassroots groups that employ non-authoritarian,
grassroots democratic forms of organisation, struggle
independent of the social, political, and economic
institutions of the capitalist system, and seek to effect
change directly through their own action. Each event or
action will be organised autonomously by each group, while
coalitions of various movements and groups can be formed at
the local, regional, and national levels. Each group chooses
autonomously how to take part in the Day, whether for
instance to campaign against the entire capitalist system as
such or to concentrate on a single issue or aspect of it. A
strategy that may be useful at the local level is that
various groups co-operate in creating a surrounding
atmosphere of carnival and festivity as a setting for their
various actions.
Examples of conceivable actions are:
strikes - demonstrations - critical mass bike rides -
carnivals - street parties - reclaiming streets, government
land or office buildings for non-commersial and good
activities - marches - music - dancing - speeches - handing
out flyers - banner hangings - distributing community
controlled newspapers - street theatre - building gardens -
handing out free food - mock trade fairs - offering no
interest loans outside major banks - solidarity actions -
pickets - occupations of offices - blockades and shutdowns -
appropriating and disposing of luxury consumer goods -
sabotaging, wrecking, or interfering with capitalist
infrastructure - appropriating capitalist wealth and
returning it to the working people - declaring oneself
independent from capitalism and authoritarian governments -
setting up grassroots' community councils and holding
meetings outside city halls - setting up economic
alternatives, like workers' co-operatives - promoting
economic alternatives to capitalist companies - promoting
grassroots based forms of community organisation
If you
or your group plan to join this Day of Action, please let
others know as soon as possible, to facilitate networking
and communication. There are several international mailing
lists available for open discussions and co-ordination (see
below). A public international contacts list is regularly
posted to them in order to facilitate decentralized and
non-hierarchic networking. To have your contact information
added to it, please contact
There are many things we need to
do, to make the best of May 1 at the global, local, and
national levels. We need to spread information about it
among as many suitable groups and movements as possible. We
need to spread and share propaganda materials, such as
leaflets and posters. And, in general, we need to share our
experiences, thoughts and ideas with one other and help each
other out. At the local level, information about the Day
needs to be spread and discussed among groups and
individuals, meetings need to be organized, events planned,
leaflets printed and distributed, funds raised, laughter and
conversation shared.
The process of building up our
movements can and should be continued through further Global
Days of Action against Capitalism in the future. Activists
in Prague, Czech Republic are already preparing to make
September 27-28 this year the next occasion for global
action against capitalism, so that it will coincide with the
annual meeting between the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
and the World Bank taking place in Prague at that
time.
Any ‘inquiries’ or concerns about the Mayday Global
Day of Action should be directed to other activists in your
group, city, or country or on the various mailing lists, for
us to mutually help each other with ideas and advise. There
is noone in charge or pulling the strings for the Day. It
will be a radically decentralised and non-hierarchic event
entirely of our own creation in co-operation and solidarity
with one another.
V. REFERENCES
See for
instance
www.lobster1.dircon.co.uk/,
http://m1.protest.net,
www.infoshop.org/mayday2000.html
or http://wtocaravan.org/mayday2k/ .
see www.infoshop.org/june18.html or
www.j18.org
see http://go.to/n30 or
www.seattlewto.org/n30
see
www.go.to/agp or www.agp.org/agp/index.html
or contact
see www.destroyimf.org, www.bankwatch.org or
www.mmf2000.webjump.com