Join us on the square in Downtown New Braunfels for a rally on International Worker’s Day. It is also this administration’s 100th day in office. We want to let them know how we feel it is going so far. We will gather starting at 5:00PM and the really will begin @ 5:15. Come with signs telling this administration to stop the cuts, how you feel about the job they are doing, AND signs supporting workers and their rights.
WHAT IS MAY DAY?
May Day originated in America as a radical mass strike that ground the American economy to a halt and demanded an 8 hour workday. The holiday quickly spread across the world, becoming International Workers’ Day.
In the decades since, presidents like Grover Cleveland and Dwight Eisenhower have tried to erase International Workers Day in America.
But the need for working class solidarity has never been greater. Today, the wealth gap between the mega-wealthy and everybody else is larger than it was on the first May Day in 1886.
It’s easy to feel powerless, like the world is lost. Young people have lived through decades of a failed economy, a failing democracy, and a complete lack of failure to address an existential climate crisis.
At the root of all of this? Billionaires who think their never-ending profits are more important than everyday people’s lives and livelihoods.
We deserve better, and the only way we’re going to get there is the same way everyday people throughout history have brought about massive, sudden change: mass non-cooperation.
We need another generational May Day strike in order to win a Green New Deal.
This event is also in solidarity with SURJ, Standing Up for Racial Justice. In the midst of all this we are dealing with in this administration, we also HAVE to deal with the injustice we see when it comes to the BIPOC community. Now, we as white people (and I am talking to myself here), do not need to be the “White Savior”. That is the last thing the BIPOC community needs. What they do need is for us to stand up and fight right along side them and give them a break from having to fight alone. If you look back over history, who has always been at the forefront of the fights for equality? Black Women! It is time we learn to fight the fight with them and “Get into some GOOD TROUBLE”, as John Lewis said. If this administration has showed us anything, it is that we ALL have to come together to make a difference.
If you would like more information about SURJ, please contact @Hunter Bledsoe. Register for this event @ https://www.mobilize.us/dashboard/indivisiblenb/event/781900/
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