May Day Celebrates the 99%

Information & updates on the permitted, family-friendly May Day March & Rally organized by the Portland May Day Coalition.

Apr 25, 2012

May Day Planned Events

The following are the publicly announced events.  This listing is not an explicit endorsement, but is simply information on the wide variety of May Day activities.

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Student Strike
Space Liberation
General Strike March
May Day March & Rally
May Day Celebration!


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 7:30 am
STUDENT STRIKE
501 North Dixon Street (PPS Headquarters)

Students on Strike is the beginning of a student led campaign against budget cuts and the falling quality of our schools. Rally at PPS Headquarters and nonviolently shutdown work; this action is building towards the May 11th mass demonstration at Pioneer Square currently being organized by Teachers, Parents and Students.
http://www.facebook.com/events/409741142371139/

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 9 am
LAND LIBERATION & SPACE RECLAMATION
Woodlawn Park (at NE Dekum & 13th)   

Land liberation with the Portland Liberation Organizing Council and friends! Show up ready to reclaim land as part of a community-led resistance event and have fun at a block party.  
 Text @ploc-openrrn to 23559 to join our Rapid Response Network and stay up-to-date on further developments. www.liberatepdx.org

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 Rally: 11:30
   March: 12:30-?
MAYDAY GENERAL STRIKE MARCH
 Under west side of the Burnside Bridge

An unpermitted event, "Friendly to otherwise unfriendly tactics"

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 2-9pm
PERMITTED RALLY AND MARCH
 South Park Blocks @ SW Salmon & Park 

This will be the traditional large, 'family-friendly', permitted and legal event.
2pm  Tabling begins for community groups
3:30 Permitted Rally begins
4:30 Permitted March begins
6:30  March returns to South Park Blocks (estimated)
Open Mic & music
9pm end

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7:30-11pm
May Day Celebration!
 Red & Black Cafe, SE 12th and Oak
 
Music! Fun! Solidarity!
BANDS: Nun Chuksky (last show EVER!), Mike XVX (acoustic punk), Wretched of the Earth (anti-colonial d-beat) and more!
SPECIALS: Our Worker Wednesday discount will be available to everyone all night!

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***CANCELED*** 

MAYDAY FREEDOM FESTIVAL
~6:30pm
Celebrate May Day and liberate a building. Assemble in South Park Blocks immediately following the permitted march, stay in the South Park Blocks to eat together before marching to
liberate a space. Plans are still being discussed.