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[ + ] Join us for May Day 2024! International Workers' Day [ + ] Let Gaza Live! [ + ] Chile: Report from the Base [ + ] BMDC Public Statement Against Cancel Culture [ + ] May Day 2023 - Boston Common [ + ] Report from Peru - Sharpening Class Conflict and Protests [ + ]  Park Street T Station, Boston FaceBook page Cosponsors: Boston May Day Coalition The Committee for Peace and Human Rights Massachusetts Peace Action International Action Center United Against War and Militarism Assange Defense Boston Workers World Party - Boston Red Flag Boston Pride at Work - Boston [ + ] Converging Crises & Collaborations to Fix Them [ + ] [ + ] Reporting from São Paulo, Brazil Fabio Bosco, Member of the São Paulo transportation trade union (Sindicato dos Metroviarios) Sunday Nov. 6th 6:30 P.M.  [ + ] On September 21st, 2022, 15 individuals from Extinction Rebellion were arrested for protesting against Massachuetts State government inaction on the climate crisis and against the continuous construction of new fossil fuel infrastructure.
[ + ] BMDC in international panel on Ukraine war
Ukraine, The Working Class, Russia, China, & U.S. Imperialism This is an audio & video link to the international discussion on the Ukraine war entitled Ukraine, The Working Class, Russia, China, & U.S. Imperialism which took place September 18th, 2022.
[ + ] Stop Washington's War Moves toward Russia & China
United National AntiWar Coalition [ + ] Ricardo Flores Magón: Life and Death of a Mexican Revolutionary
100th year with Sacco and Vanzetti Society [ + ] The Coalition sponsored a free-wheeling discussion on building united fronts to unite the struggles for justice and the rights of working people, the oppressed, and youth.
[ + ] The Boston May Day Coalition calls on attorney general Merrick Garland to prosecute president Donald Trump for attempting to overthrow the government
[ + ] Please join with the Boston May Day Coalition in supporting and attending the Boston Abortion Rights Rally
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 [ + ]  Agreed to May 22, 2022 For over two and half years, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the world illness, suffering and death. The impact has been aggravated by capitalism, racism, poverty and imperialism. [ + ]  Agreed to March 27, 2022 [ + ]  Join us for May Day on Boston Common celebrating a day of solidarity across struggles. The action will be at Liberty Mall across the street from the MA Statehouse on Sunday, May 1st at 1 p.m. Let’s unite together on May Day, International Workers Day, to celebrate the traditions of struggle by working people and the oppressed worldwide. Let’s celebrate the strikes of millions of farmers and workers of India. Let’s celebrate the victory of striking MNA nurses in Worcester, MA and the union organizing victory of warehouse workers at Amazon in Staten Island, NY. Workers at Starbucks in Boston are Unionizing! May Day is our day to address the climate and ecological emergency and to demand economic security and justice. Let’s stand together to resist the war machine, fight racism, and defend migrants’ rights. For climate justice, housing, healthcare, childcare, education, LGBT and women’s rights. Let’s usher in the spring with fresh energy, mobilizations, and direct action to spread the resistance and fight for a better world. For more info: info@BostonMayDay.org facebook.com/bostonmdc www.bostonmayday.org [ + ] Saturday, May 1, 2021, 1PM. at the Parkman Bandstand on the Boston Common.
 [ + ] Wednesday, January 20, on the Boston Common, Parkman Bandstand. 4:00 PM Rally, 5:30 March
 Participants are asked to wear a face covering and stay 6 feet apart. Current cosponsors: Boston May Day Coalition Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts Refuse Fascism Boston Independent Socialist Group Mass Peace Action Extinction Rebellion Boston Boston Socialist Alternative United American Indians of New England (UAINE) North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB ) New Democracy Coalition [ + ]  On Sunday, May3, 2020, members of the Boston May Day Coalition staged a demonstration in front of the Suffolk County Jail, demanding justice and rights for prisoners, immigrants and the poor in the United States. To read the statement presented at the demonstration click below. [ + ]  The first case of COVID-19 in the United States was confirmed on January 21st in Washington state. There is no good reason why the US became the epicenter of the world coronavirus pandemic. The colossal spread of the epidemic in the US is directly the result of policies of the Trump Administration. In May of 2018, Trump closed the White House pandemic office (National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense). On January 3, the director of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), Robert Redfield, received a call from a counterpart in China describing a lethal respiratory illness that was sweeping Wuhan. The Trump administration was immediately notified. [ + ]  Sunday, May 26, 2019 3–6 PM Encuentro 5 9A Hamilton Place Boston, MA 02108 (Park Street T) Join in the resistance! On May Day folks had the opportunity to celebrate the worldwide resistance of working people and youth. Folks from different countries and backgrounds participated in the rally and march through downtown Boston. The employers and their government are conducting a generalized assault on our lives, rights, and living conditions. The leading edge of this assault today is the stepped up attacks against migrants. There has been an escalation of racist and xenophobic state repression coming from the centers of power in Washington. In addition, thousands of Massachusetts residents are prevented from having access to driver’s licenses. The 1% and their government seek to maintain a source of cheap labor and use migrant labor to keep down the wages of all of us. They want to divide us and undermine our ability to organize. We must act now and build a fighting movement capable of defending ourselves as working people and youth against the generalized assault. That fight starts by uniting in solidarity with our migrant sisters and brothers. Join us in discussing and developing future plans for engaging in the battles that lie ahead. An injury to one is an injury to all. Pot luck refreshments. [ + ]  Rally 2:30 PM - Boston Common, Parkman Bandstand Followed by a Puppet Parade to the Government Center T stop where we will depart for the Rally in East Boston scheduled for 5:30. Next Organizing Meeting: Sunday, April 28 @ 4:00 PM Encuentro 5 9A Hamilton Place, Boston 02128 Join in the resistance! Are you fed up and think it is time to end the empire? Join us then on May Day where folks will gather to oppose the wars, the blockade of Venezuela, the border wall, deportations, and racism. Let’s come together to support driver's licenses for all, free healthcare, education, and childcare, affordable housing, and rights for working people including abolishing the wage system. Instead of declaring a national emergency to build a wall, let’s declare a national emergency to combat climate change, rebuild the crumbling infrastructure, and end police brutality. Join us in demanding immediate legal permanent residence for all undocumented migrants. [ + ]
[ + ]  Mobilize Tuesday, May 1 Rally on the Boston Common, Parkman Bandstand @ 5:00 PM Followed by a 6:30 March to Copley Square Resist Deportations! Immediate Permanent Legal Residence for All Undocumented Migrants! Permanent Residence for All DACA and TPS Recipients! Driver’s Licenses for All Undocumented MA Residents! $15 Minimum Wage! Stop Racist Attacks! End Mass Incarceration! Equal Pay for Equal Work! Full Union Rights for All Workers! Free Day Care for All Workers! Full Labor Rights for So Called “Independent Contractors”! End Military Intervention, Bring All US Troops Home Now! Defend Transgender Rights! Unions for All Workers! Organize the Unorganized! Workers’ Control in the Workplace! Jobs, Pensions, Healthcare, and Education for All Workers and Youth! The government in Washington and the billionaire class are leading a generalized assault on our lives, rights, and living conditions. The wealth gap today continues to grow. From the racist attacks on Muslims, Migrants, and African-Americans to attacks on healthcare, women, and LGBT folks, and from attacks on our environment and education, to perpetual wars, working people are under fire. The leading edge of this assault today is the stepped up attacks against migrants. Deportations are accelerating. As US wars have created massive debt and refugees internationally, the consequences of corporate greed at home have created refugees within our own borders. The war on the poor continues. Student debt stands at over a trillion dollars! The recent tax cuts for the rich will be at the expense of our living standards. They will be going after affordable housing, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. Millions of youth and decent hard working people are under attack! Claiming that human caused climate change is a "hoax", the Trump Administration pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord. The falsehood of this claim was yet again demonstrated by the horrendous hurricanes that devastated the Gulf Coast and Caribbean. Enough is enough! An injury to one is an injury to all! Let us stand together and build a united, fighting movement. Please join us on May Day where our program will address: Migration, Labor Rights, Systemic Oppression, Threats to Human Survival, and the role of capitalism, US imperialism, and war in the current crisis. Cosponsors: Anarchist Black Cross ANSWER - Boston Bay State Red Sentinels #BecomeUngovernable Bishop Filipe C. Teixeira- Immigration Pastoral Center, Brockton Boston Education Justice Alliance Boston Labor Solidarity Committee Boston May Day Coalition Boston Socialist Alternative Boston Socialist Party Boston Teachers Union Community Church of Boston Cosecha Boston Cosecha Merrimack Valley CPUSA Boston Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston Food for Activists Greater Boston Chapter: Green-Rainbow Party Party for Socialism and Liberation - Boston Refuse Fascism, Metro Boston UAW Local 1596 Veterans For Peace - Boston, Smedley D. Butler Brigade Watertown Citizens for Peace, Justice and the Environment Other May 1st actions: Everett - Main Rally 5:30pm Glendale Park https://www.facebook.com/m1coalition/ E. Boston - gather and march 4:00pm Liberty Plaza Chelsea - gather and march 4:30pm City Hall Worcester - 4:45- 6:30 PM, 145 Front Street https://www.facebook.com/events/168239757215470/ [ + ] Mobilize Saturday, December 2
[ + ] Thursday, November 9 at 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM EST
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EventBrite link The call for a Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has emerged from more than a decade of work by grassroots community and religious leaders, organizations and movements fighting to end systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, environmental destruction & related injustices and to build a just, sustainable and participatory society. We draw on the history, vision and unfinished work of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.  Defend DACA! Extend TPS! Jail Joe Arpaio! No Ban! No Wall! Defend Transgender Rights! End Racism! Black Lives Matter! ¡Respeto a los pueblos indígenas! Permanent residence for all 11 million undocumented migrants! [ + ]
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[ + ]  On Wednesday, March 8th, Boston will come alive with actions across the city in celebration of International Women's Day. This year's IWD comes at a time when reactionary ideology is prevalent and its adherents are in power, making women's struggles against patriarchal oppression all the more acute. Boston may Day Coalition endorses these actions and stands together with the working women of the world. [ + ]  We need an immigration policy based on human, civil and labor rights, which looks at the reasons why people come to the U.S., and how we can end the criminalization of their status and work. While proposals from Congress and the administration have started the debate over the need for change in our immigration policy, they are not only too limited and ignore the global nature of migration, but they will actually make the problem of criminalization much worse. We need a better alternative. This alternative should start by looking at the roots of migration - the reasons why people come to the U.S. in the first place. Movement and migration is a human right. But we live in a world in which a lot of migration isn't voluntary, but is forced by poverty and so-called economic reforms. [ + ]  The decision, by President Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to impose the Secure Communities Program on the State of Massachusetts in 2012, seriously undermines reasonable sovereignty claims of the states, encourages the practice racial profiling, and erodes individual rights to due process. Of course, it targets immigrants and specifically Latinos. But this is no aberration. Secure communities is cut from the same cloth as the National Defense Authorization Act providing for the indefinite worldwide detention of individuals, or the executive branch assertion that it has the right to kill anyone it deems to be a threat (regardless of their citizenship and without benefit of any judicial process), or the attempt via SOPA/PIPA and now CISPA to make either federal agencies or powerful companies the arbiters of internet content and property claims. [ + ] Message by Chuck Turner for the Boston May Day 2012 event
 Brothers and Sisters. Unfortunately, I can not be with you today. I am in the 13th month of a 36 month sentence at Hazelton Federal Penitentiary based on a scheme by former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan to advance his career. Sullivan is now managing partner of the Boston office of the Ashcroft Group, a consulting firm owned by John Ashcroft former US Attorney General under George Bush but that is a conversation for another day. I appreciate and welcome the opportunity on May Day 2012 to share with you my thoughts. [ + ] On July 1, 2003, the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and their Families entered into force. There is abundant evidence that worldwide documented and undocumented migrant workers – including a growing number of women – are providing key contributions in such sectors as agriculture, construction, high tech and (domestic) services. They are, however, increasingly subject to racism, discrimination, abuse and violent attacks. We, welcome the adoption of the Convention. The USA has not ratified nor signed on.
 The Cambridge City Council passed a resolution, presented by Councilor Marjorie Decker, on its session of December 5, declaring December 18, 2011 and annually thereafter, as International Migrants Day in Cambridge. It also urges the U.S. Government to sign and ratify the 1990 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Their Families and to similarly recognize December 18, 2011, as International Migrants Day. The Resolution also resolved to recognize the many contributions of immigrants and refugees to society as a whole. Pictured from bottom l-r, Councilors Decker, Vice-Mayor Davis, Simmons, Toomey, Kelley, Cheung, Seidel, Reeves, Mayor Maher [ + ]  Council Charles C. Yancey offered the resolution that urged "the United States Government to sign and ratify the 1990 International Convention for the Protection of the Rights of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and to similarly recognize December 18, 2011, and annually thereafter, as international Migrants Day". To see a picture of the original signed resolution click here. [ + ] Lessons from the struggle to defeat racist anti-immigrant amendments to the Massachusetts State Budget for FY 2012 [ + ] The great majority of Senators who are members of the Democratic Party voted in favor of anti-immigrant amendments that would deprive undocumented immigrant of medical and social services. The amendement also would allow for the creation of a free 800 number to report on suspected undocumented immigrants. The Massachusetts Senate is composed of 35 Democrats and 5 Republicans. Only five decent democrats had the guts to vote against the anti-immigrant amendment. To see the roll call check on the link below. [ + ] |
Are you looking for something different on July 4th? Tired of the red, white, and blues year after year? Do you wish to declare Independence from corporate greed, and imperial plunder? Consider gathering for the annual Anti-Imperialist Picnic. Instead of celebrating the founding fathers’ slave republic, the military, and colonial conquest, let’s celebrate the resistance to imperialism, colonialism, apartheid, and the resilience of working people worldwide. Free Palestine! 
Gathering May 1, 2024, at 5pm on Liberty Mall, Boston Common on the steps at Beacon and Park Streets, across the street from the State House.
Just as many folks who value human rights have condemned the killing of civilians by Hamas, millions here in the US are condemning the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians, along with hostages, carried out by the Israeli regime. The bombardment of Palestinians is in no way proportionate as a retaliatory measure but is being carried out as an ethnic cleansing measure against Palestinians in general. Unimaginable horror has been inflicted with bombs raining down on Gaza killing scores of innocent civilians, and at times hundreds, daily. The Palestinian death toll is now over 34,000 total and counting. 85% of Gaza residents have now been displaced! For years, the leadership in Israel was content with Hamas rule in Gaza as a counterweight to the Palestinian Authority, and as a means of preventing any possibility for the formation of an independent Palestinian state, all while conducting raids and destroying Palestinian homes in the West Bank.
Please welcome Sergio Reyes who will be reporting from Chile on developments there. From the revolt in 2019 to the new regime, changes have taken place, but what has been accomplished? Sergio was an organizer and activist in Boston for over 30 years. He is now living in Chile. He will present his impressions of the process developing in Chile over the past few years and discuss the prospects for advances and struggle in the future.
9/17/2023.- The Boston May Day Coalition (BMDC) was founded 17 years ago during the rising movement and huge mobilizations defending migrants and demanding legal permanent residence for all undocumented immigrants. BMDC is currently the target of a boycott campaign based on false narratives with the intention of destroying the organization. Seven longtime activists who disagree with these attacks, both members and nonmembers, are being targeted, slandered, labeled “transphobes”, and subjected to online doxing of their full names and personal information.
<p>Let’s join together in celebrating May Day 2023, International Workers Day, a worldwide holiday. On May Day we have an opportunity to celebrate many examples of resistance to the employers offensive and government attacks on our rights and interests. Parkman Bandstand
Leftist strike leader and former schoolteacher Pedro Castillo was elected president of Peru in July 2021.
Are you tired of dehumanizing jobs, soaring costs of living and a dire climate future -- while our tax dollars are squandered on militarism and endless war that impoverishes us at home and endangers us abroad?
Saturday, December 10 at 1:00 PM
Sunday, November 20th, 2-4pm
Sunday, January 27, 3:30 PM - 7:30 PM
BMDC encourages all to attend the Poor People's Campaign mass meeting on Oct 19th at 7pm to 9:30pm. The free-of-charge tickets sold out, but we plan to go anyway. We hope to see you all there.
Vigil for Migrants' Rights
3-Jul-2011.- This year again the Massachusetts Budget was the field that anti-immigrant politicians chose to include their nasty venom. We had a similar experience last year that was met with fierce resistance by immigrant rights advocates lead by the young people of the Student Immigrant Movement (SIM). Just like last year most of the racist, anti-immigrants amendments were either withdrawn or rejected but some elements remained. Therefore the victories were significant but partial.