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EUROMAYDAY PRESS CONFERENCE: Monday, April 14 14h30, Maison de LA PAIX rue Van Elewijck, 35, 1050 Brussels/Bruxelles/Brussel
MayDay! MayDay! From Milano to Helsinki, from Malaga to Berlin, MayDay Parades have spread throughout Europe and beyond.
They express the common will to fight precarization and the criminalization of migrants, to make the daily struggles of the precarious visible, to work together to subvert and disrupt the flows of money and power in Fortress Europe.
Nowadays, precarity is structural and generalized. It's the paradigmatic condition of work. Structural, because it is the modern form of capitalistic dominance on labur, the outcome of individual bargaining at the expense of collective bargaining. Further, labor precarity is transformed into precarity for life. When the separation between working time and living time blurs, in a context where worktime can be expanded with no limits, precarized labor conditions become precarious conditions of existence. Migrant workers are the most precarious among the precarious. This is the main claim made by EuroMayDay 008. Precarity negatively affects income security, housing, mobility, provides discriminatory access to knowledge and skills, denies open&free information, communication, and sharing.
While our situations are diverse, we are united in the need to find new ways to counter the ever increasing capitalist claims on our lives. We are united against precarity and detention centers, that's why we ask for:
That's why we ask for: unconditional basic income stability a european living wage full legalization for migrants self-organizing and unionizing rights freed from repression access to culture, knowledge, and skills the right to cheap housing
Europe 008: Nowhere to Run
The air we breathe - informal sharing overtaking industrial culture, endless days, nights of sorrow, moments of hope, where is my money gone, where is it gonna come from. The heavy air - people on the run, floating europe, border patrols on your back. The heavy breath - the ancien regime of regulation and social security of europe in crisis; capitalism - more than a word, a totalitarian license to fuck everybody over, a historical age that must be overcome. The air we breathe - our societies, our friends, our relations, our struggles, our common breath, our evolving ideas and loud demands: european legalization for the sans papiers and a basic income for all. Because tomorrow has to be a better day. By any means necessary.
R U Precarious?
Get Up, Stand Up,
Fight 4 EuroRights,
Get, Up, Stand Up,
Take Up a EuroFight.
PayBack Time is Here.
See Ya There.
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery none but ourselves can free our minds." Bob Marley
MAYDAY, MAYDAY!
Emergency Call from Aachen/Aix-la-Chapelle/Aquisgranum
Link to Poster: www.euromayday.org/propaganda08/poster/aachen/mayday-08.jpg
Info Updates: http://euromayday.karlspreis.info
On the First of May in Aachen/ Aken/ Aix-la-Chapelle/ Aquisgrana/ Aquisgra?n / Akwizgran/ Ahan, ancient caroligian city, Nicolas Sarkozy will present Angela Merkel with the EU Oscar, the Prix Charlemagne. Irony of the calendar, syndicalist MayDay this year coincides with catholic Ascension Day, when the Eurocracy Awards are traditionally handed out.
The duo congratulates itself for having finally shielded the EU from the social demands of the people, who scream for an end to free-market theology in europe. The new european diarchy is turning the continent into a police state and would be happy to erase the heretic meaning of MayDay, and the Anarchist and Socialist traditions of europe along with it.
This year for MayDay, two worlds clash together: the global movement vs strong-armed governments; grassroots networks and squatted social centers vs EU power; Utopian Society vs Capitalist Market; the radical europe of multitudes vs the conservative Europe of elites.
We are gonna spoil the party of the powerful, by raising hell in Aachen and holding our own party: the EuroMayDay Parade, the transeuropean demonstration of all precarious and migrants against workfare, discrimination and border controls held in more than twenty cities.
We, the EuroMayDay Network cannot accept that MayDay is turned into the Ascension Day into stardom of the two failing sovereigns of Christian, NATO Europe. We reject Charlemagne as symbol of Europe, just as we denounce the neoliberalism of the Barroso Commission and the monetarism of Trichet's Central Bank.
Forced to live in precarious hell, we're going to trash the heaven of EU elites. Don't miss it: shame the twin rulers of Europe, expose their authoritarian arrogance, join the thousands coming to Aachen (close to Cologne) for the strongest protest against the core of europower ever mounted. Show Angie and Sarko what the European movement against neoliberalism and militarism is capable of. Come to the special EuroMayDay Protest+Parade+Party that collectives in Aachen, Liege, Maastricht, and other cities of the region are organizing. Facilities, accommodation and food will be provided to protesters in Aachen in the days immediately before and after the First of May.
Activists, artists, hackers, unionists, migrant associations, queer collectives, critical cyclists, media creatives, leftist radicals of all stripes, red, black, green, pink, purple, silver, are coming to Aachen and other EuroMayDay Parades to join the fight.
First of May in Aachen: morning: EuroMayDay PROTESTS nearby Rathaus where Karlspreis is given to Merkel by Sarkozy afternoon: EuroMayDay PARADE starts nearby site of protest evening: MayDay PARTY in public park
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No Borders, No Workfare, No Precarity. Join Us in the MayDay Parades in Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Helsinki, Lisbon, Milano, Malaga, Maribor, Napoli, Palermo, Terraza, Tokyo, and many other cities!
EuroMayDay fighting precarity and inequality since 2004
