May Day! May Day! in SF?

Call for decentralized protests on May Day in San Francisco, with a clear publicly announced statement and a city wide war chest of targets in regards to housing, war, work-related, environmental, and health related issues. We should take advantage of the moment in time that we are currently in.

For once we are in a time where we can truly learn from our lessons and send out a message across this country and this world. We have a number of issues coming together in San Francisco, the bay area, and beyond this coming year. There is a sort of energy in the connection of larger issues that many have been seeking to build over the previous years. It's not as simple as just laying out the issues above, as it includes many more, but it seems that certain parts of the movement have taken leap forwards in recent years in terms of connecting the issues(or dots, as the guardian article says). Now we just need to create a space where many different groups can be heard, allowed to do there own thing, as long as it connects to a central message of sorts. We saw this happen last year somewhat with the march 20 actions, but somehow folks have let this lesson go by the way side. There are many parts to this movement, and we must all learn to work better together, instead of having anyone group take the lead. It does not matter whether the leaders are anarchists or stalinists(like answer), either way the march and the message was surrounded by cops. Which is great in some ways cause it brought the truth out in the open for many people, and reminded others. It was obvious that SFPD and their controllers didn't give a damn about our rights, sought to control us, and was protecting business as usual. Which in this case is profiting and feeding off this bloody imperialist oil war.

This is more than just a call for May Day actions really. It is a plea for peace. A plea for the various movements to work together somehow. Develop some town halls or councils of sorts, maybe in the manner of DASW, maybe involving DASW elements itself in initial development. But regardless, we need to use our time wisely and begin to connect the blue(labor - working folk), green(environmentalist), pink(womyn - queer), black(anarchist - africans/americans[sic]), brown(land - chican@/latin@), yellow(asian), red(people of the world)....however you define and combine your colors...whether you want to wave them as red/black/green, red/black, representing the people of the world, yr gender/orientation, or yr beliefs about the land and life.

There are actions and issues coming up left and right in our community, including actions already being organized for, like June 8ths' anti-biotech events, april 7th at the oakland port, coming labor issues around health care and wages, the republican and democrat conventions, the ongoing wars in afghanistan, iraq, and colombia; and other actions against democracy in haiti and venezuela. Bottom line is that if we can organize together somehow over the coming months and focus on certain dates and conferences/events, while all the time trying to bring the issue back to a local level that people can understand, well who knows what can happen. Especially if this can happen globally. Who knows maybe the slogan, Another World is Possible, can become true.

Please comment and think about this..

Don't Mourn, Organize!! - joe hill