May 1st Protests--Take Back the Wealth--Occupy Santa Rosa

[neil]

Join us in the streets Tuesday May 1st!

In solidarity with the call for a Global General Strike on May 1, Occupy Santa Rosa is organizing for a day of nonviolent protest. The poster below gives our convergence times at Courthouse Square.

Take back the wealth!

Justice for everyone!

Reclaim our power!

Neil

[zenekar]

Join us in the streets Tuesday May 1st!
In solidarity with the call for a Global General Strike on May 1, Occupy Santa Rosa is organizing for a day of nonviolent protest. The poster below gives our convergence times at Courthouse Square.

It is appropriate that Occupy Santa Rosa is acknowledging International Workers Day on Mayday. On May 1st. 2006, millions of immigrants around the Nation took to the streets, including over 10,000 in Santa Rosa. Very few non-Latinos attended the peaceful but powerful annual Mayday events calling for economic justice, immigrant and workers rights.


This year, since the awakening of the "middle class," I envisioned the diverse community of Sonoma County coming together/working together in solidarity, to create a critical mass to challenge the status quo on Mayday. Occupy Santa Rosa (OSR) joined the May 1st Coalition, which has been planning the marches since 2006, but OSR is making separate plans of actions at a different location (unclear as of now, what those actions may be). There is concern that these actions may overshadow the intent of the family oriented rally and march from Roseland, although OSR is planning to join the rally and will march to Juilliard Park.


I do hope that on Mayday people will UNITE and learn about each other's struggles. Can there be 15,000 people from all sectors of Sonoma County, marching side by side to show the ruling elite that we stand together to change this broken system?! – People united will never be defeated!

A nation-wide general strike has been called but many people, especially in the immigrant community, must work. For that reason the gathering and rally at "Roseland Plaza" (Old Albertson’s lot) 665 Sebastopol Rd. in Roseland, will begin at 3:30 pm. The march will start at 4:30 pm, to Juilliard Park where there will be a theatre performance, music and informational tables.


Attila Nagy
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[neil]

As someone who is active in Occupy Santa Rosa, and also in the May 1st Coalition as a representative of Occupy Santa Rosa, I can say unequivocally that OSR is fully committed to the success of the May 1st Coalition Rally and March (which will gather Tuesday May 1 at 3:30pm at 655 Sebastopol Road).

From the time when the Coalition first started meeting earlier this year, OSR has been completely transparent about its plans to also organize its own nonviolent actions earlier in the day, and then join the Coalition Rally and March in Roseland. The member organizations of the Coalition have been aware of this from the start and are OK with it. It is my honest sense of the situation that, in voicing his concern about OSR here on WaccoBB yesterday, Attila Nagy spoke neither for the May 1st Coalition as a whole nor for any of its member organizations, but only for himself. I trust that he did not intend his comment to be divisive. I agree very much with Attila that May 1st is a time for the large Latino community and the large progressive community to join together and march side by side.

May 1st is a celebration of everyday working people around the world. Make a sign saying what you want to say, and come out!

Together we are strong! Together we can win!

Let's do it!
Neil Dunaetz

[Barry]

Occupy activists will join Santa Rosa May Day march and rally
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120429/articles/120429461

By MARTIN ESPINOZA
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
Published: Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 5:39 p.m.

Occupy Santa Rosa activists and labor and immigrant rights advocates have teamed up this year for the annual May 1 march and rally in downtown Santa Rosa.

Activists will assemble at the old Albertsons shopping center on Sebastopol Road at about 3:30 p.m. before they set out for Juilliard Park.

The event, the largest local pro-immigration and labor rally of the year, is organized by the May 1st Coalition, which includes the Sonoma County Committee for Immigrant Rights, the county Peace and Justice Center and the North Bay Labor Council.

But this year, activists with Occupy Santa Rosa will hold several morning protests and demonstrations at Old Courthouse Square.

These include a “flash mob nap” to call attention to homelessness, roving marches that target banks and a demonstration outside the state building in downtown Santa Rosa, said Carl Patrick, an Occupy Santa Rosa organizer.

“As of now, there's no civil disobedience planned,” Patrick said last week.

At 3 p.m., Occupy Santa Rosa activists will walk to Sebastopol Road where they will meet with activists from the May 1st Coalition and join the larger rally and march.

Organizers said the march to Juilliard Park is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. and will take the usual route down Sebastopol Road, through Railroad Square, under Highway 101, around the north end of Santa Rosa Plaza, south on B Street and up Third Street to Santa Rosa Avenue and then south to Juilliard Park.

Music and entertainment is planned for the park, as well as a puppet show put together by the Occupy Santa Rosa's Popular Theater Working Group. The show will feature giant puppets and a skit that tells the history of May Day celebrations.

The theme of the event is “Unite for Economic Justice and Immigrant Rights,” said Patrick.