Monday, April 30, 2012
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(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: Protests and 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
