Radical Youth Tuesday 1st May

Radical Youth to Re-launch the "End Youth Rates" Campaign on May Day

This May Day Radical Youth, a student group from Auckland, are re-launching the campaign against youth rates. Mayday historically is a day of worker's solidarity and Radical Youth are marking this day by standing up for young worker's rights. A march and rally will be held at the bottom of Queen St at 5pm to celebrate International Worker's Day organized by unions.

"It has been over a year since the campaign against youth rates began. Young people have been on strike, we have protested and we even walked out of school. Yet, the government has still not met our demands to end age discrimination in the workplace," says Radical Youth spokesperson, Eliana Darroch.

"We've outlawed gender and racial discrimination in the workplace, are our bosses permitted to subject us to age discrimination? It only works to benefit the rich, while over 3 in 10 young people in New Zealand live in poverty," she says.

"Youth rates are a product of our economic system, where poverty, inequality and exploitation are inevitable. By demanding an end to youth rates, we also want to end poverty. But we recognize the only way to end poverty is to change our economic system to something that works for everyone," she says.

To continue the struggle against policies that marginalize young people and support capitalism, there will be a street theatre performance as a symbol of youth resistance against capitalism in Auckland's CBD.

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