URGENT: May Day Actions & Free Speech, Free Palestine!! Rally at UCB

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*May Day(May 1st)International Workers Day Actions

**Free Speech, Free Palestine Action at UCB on May 2nd,
noon, Biko(Sproul)Plaza.

keep reading for more info about actions that you can
take to join us on May Day and May 2nd on campus.

in struggle - chuck mcnally
farm worker support committee(CalSAS)
a member of the Stop the Delano II Prison Coaltion
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1)Bay Area May Day Events to check out

*INTERNATIONAL WORKER'S DAY SOLIDARITY RALLY
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2002
AT THE OAKLAND INS/FEDERAL BUILDING (Clay Street
between 12th and 14th)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

We demand an end to:
- citizenship requirements which deny tax paying Legal
Permanent Residents their basic right to work and feed
their families
- INS raids which terrorize our communities - the scapegoating and criminalization of immigrants
by the Bush administration since 9/11

We stand in solidarity with all immigrant families and
hundreds of immigrant rights groups in Washington DC,
who are calling for legalization and immigrant rights
on a national level on this same day.

Take a stand for truth, justice and immigrant workers'
rights!

For more information, call Kawal Ulanday at Filipinos
for Affirmative Action: 510-465-9876 x 301

Sponsored by: Filipinos for Affirmative Action, Labor
Immigrant Organizing Network, Philip Vera Cruz Justice
Project, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee
Rights, Alameda County Asian Pacific American Labor
Alliance, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy,
Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Against the War,
Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines,
Filipinos for Global Justice Not War Coalition, SF
Immigrant Airport Workers Solidarity Committee! ,
Filipino Civil Rights Advocates, East Bay Asian
Consortium, and other social justice organizations.

**Peace, Work, and Housing(San Francisco Action)

THE LAND BELONGS TO THOSE WHO WORK IT!!
corner of Montgomery St and Market St

for more info call 415-864-8372

sponsored by: INS Watch, P.O.W.E.R., St Peter's
Housing Committee, Latinos Contra La Guerra, Housing
Not Borders-Coalition on Homelessness, Day Labor
Program, Chinatown Community Development Center,
Homeless Prenatal Program, La Raza Centro Legal

***Discussion on Workers Rights(part of Semana De La
Raza at Cal) 6pm in room 160 Dwinelle
screening of "Occupation", a documentary of the
Harvard Living Wage sit-in last spring

****Help us celebrate the defunding of Delano II by
the California State Senate subcommittee on Budgets!

JAILBREAK: A May Day Benefit for the California Prison
Moratorium Project and the Prison Activist Resource
Ce! nter
When: Wednesday, May 1, 2002, Show at 8 PM, doors open
at 7 PM
Where: El Rio, 3158 Mission St., SF (near Cesar
Chavez)

How Much: $7- $20 sliding scale

21 and over

Join the California Prison Moratorium Project on
International Workers Day for a night of music and
performance with Eighth Wonder Poets, La Paz, Wayside
and Maria Elena Gaitan (Chola con Cello), Daniel
Torres and Melinda Velasco.

Celebrate our recent victories: the federal Bureau of
Prisons just cancelled all plans for 10 potential
prison sites in California. Hear about upcoming and
ongoing struggles - including the ongoing fight to
stop the Delano II prison - from Ruthie Gilmore and
other luminaries.

Call (510) 893-4648 ext. 202 or e-mail
califpmp [at] igc.org for more
information.

LA PAZ is a Latino hip hop trio whose uplifting raps
are laced with social consciousness. Their
philosophy-rapping is a gift give! n to M.C.s so that
they might make the world more aware.

San Francisco's traditions of beat poetry and Asian
Pacific Islander liberation set the stage for the
birth of EIGHTH WONDER. The four-man, four-woman
Filipino American group creates ripples that reach
halfway across the nation and far into the cosmos.

MARIA ELENA GAITAN (chola con cello), DANIEL TORRES,
and MELINDA VELASCO come together to perform hot Latin
music drawing roots from Mexico and Africa to create
rhythms and moods sure to make your hips sway and your
body rock.

WAYSIDE is a fabulous funk band, which combines soul,
rhythm and blues and hard bop to create a sound that
no crowd can resist.

Those who absolutely can't make it to the event but
want to contribute can send a check payable to:
California Prison Focus/CPMP. Mail to: California
Prison Moratorium Project, POB 339, Berkeley, CA
94701. Thanks.


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2)Free Speech, Free Palestine
May 2nd at noon, Biko(Sproul)Plaza

**Call to Action for Thursday Rally from Noura of SJP
Greetings Brothers and Sisters,

As the Palestinian people remain steadfast and fierce
in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in refugee camps for
still another trying day throughout the Arab world and
as third-class citizens in Israel proper, they also
inspire us all to continue our work in the States and
all over the world. In response, powers that be are
doing their utmost to silence us. The Students for
Justice in Palestine-UC Berkeley¡¦s movement to divest
from Israel and hold our university accountable has
become too loud and too powerful for the
administration to ignore us anymore and rather than
sit down and negotiate our demands with us they are
trying to tape our mouths shut and kick us out of
school. As you may have already heard, the University
is n! ow building a case to suspend SJP on campus. That
means that we cannot table on campus, we cannot
distribute literature, we cannot hold rallies or
teach-ins, we cannot hold meetings on
campus¡Xessentially we have no freedom of speech or
assembly. Why? Because we held a non-violent march and
rally that culminated in a sit-in. This type of
response is unprecedented and it is definitely
representative of the University¡¦s own economic
interests and pro-Israeli bias. But that¡¦s not all,
the University¡¦s case also seeks to suspend 41
students involved with the organization for an entire
academic year, sending the clear message that our
movement is not wanted on campus. Where in Palestine
voices of dissent are literally murdered, we are now
witnessing the symbolic murder of similar voices on
our university campus. The Students for Justice in
Palestine demand that the University of California,
Berkeley divest their holdings in! Israel, stop using
our tuition to massacre Palestinian civilians¡Xwe
demand that UC Berkeley condemn the Israeli military
siege around our Palestinian sister school, Bethlehem
University. We demand that all charges are dropped and
that we may continue to exercise our freedom of speech
on campus.

We are now waging a struggle to get these charges
dropped and to remain morally conscious and socially
active students at UC Berkeley. To win this struggle
we need your help. This week we will be engaging in a
number of events that will only be powerful with your
support and presence.

THURSDAY MAY 2ND @ 12 PM, SPROUL PLAZA:

Sproul Plaza is also known as the Mario Savio Steps
where he and thousands of students stood and fought
for their rights during the Free Speech Movement. Now
those hard-won rights are being threatened again. We
will be holding a rally to celebrate and demand our
freedom of speech. The theme o! f our rally is FREE
SPEECH, FREE PALESTINE! Speakers will include folks
from the Free Speech Movement, from the Third World
Liberation Front Ethnic Studies strike, from the
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee-San
Francisco, Peter Camejo, the candidate for Governor of
the Green Party and former UCB student before he got
kicked out for anti-Vietnam war related free speech
activities in 1967, someone from QUIT, Kawal or Ronnie
from the Filipino Coalition for Justice, Not War..and
many, many more...

Be there and make this a victory for all of us.

HASTA LA VICTORIA!

HATA AL-NASR!

Your sister,
noura

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La vida no es que vivimos,
La vida es el honor y el recuerdo.
Por eso mas vale morir
Con el pueblo vivo,
Y no vivir
Con el pueblo muerto.
-Lopitos (Acapulc! o, Guererro - 1960)