Join us for a march and rally to celebrate working-class struggle and solidarity of all kinds on May Day 2023. Inflation, union-busting, war, police violence, right-wing attacks on our queer and trans siblings, racism, sexism, environmental destruction. We need to build a movement of solidarity among the exploited and oppressed in southern Illinois and beyond. May Day (May 1st) is International Workers Day. It commemorates the sacrifice of the Haymarket martyrs, the anarchist and socialist leaders of the struggle for the eight hour workday who were wrongly arrested and executed by the state of Illinois in 1886.
We are meeting up at Friendship Plaza (across from Evolve) at S. Illinois and Mill streets.
If you can, also join us the day before - Sunday April 30th, for a May Day Solidarity Potluck + Mutual Aid Dinner (the day before International Workers Day). Bring food if you can, and any other items folks might need (again, if you can) like toilet paper, soap, etc. Eat, drink, be merry. Listen to music. Also, you will hear from the EWOC folks (Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee) on how to organize your workplace; make signs for the May Day rally and march the next day; watch movies. And more. The Solidarity Potluck is at the Born Again Labor Museum (BALM), 828 E. Main Street, suite E. Sponsored by Southern Illinois Democratic Socialists of America and Southern Illinois University Young Democratic Socialists of America.