PORT WORKERS MAY DAY ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Clarence Thomas and Jack Heyman, Co-Chairs
Phone: 510.333.4301 * Fax: 510.215.2800
Email: news@may1.org

MEDIA ALERT

April 23, 2008

The Port Workers May Day Organizing Committee is proud to announce that Cynthia McKinney, former Congresswoman from Georgia; Danny Glover, renowned actor and political activist; and Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star mother whose son Casey was killed in Iraq four years ago, will be among the featured speakers at our "No Peace, No Work" Holiday mobilization in San Francisco on May 1st.

The West Coast longshore workers have voted to stop work to protest against the ongoing war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The Port Workers May Day Organizing Committee and the other rank-and-file committees in ports up and down the West Coast have received pledges of support from labor councils, local unions and anti-war, anti-racist, immigrant and other social justice organizations across the country and around the globe.

The "March with Longshore Workers" will assemble at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 1st, at the Longshore (ILWU) hall at Mason & Beach, and will march down the Embarcadero for a noon rally at Justin Herman Plaza.

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And don't miss the rest of her itinerary for the day:

MAY DAY, Thursday, May 1, 2008

10:30 am: Meet at Mason and Beach (in Fishersmans' Wharf). March to Justin Herman Plaza.

12:00 noon: Rally at Justin Herman Plaza.

2:00 pm: Assemble at Dolores Park for the Immigrants' Rights May Day March.

OAKLAND 3:00 pm: Assemble at Fruitvale BART Station for Oakland's Immigrants' Rights May Day March. March to Oakland City Hall.

3:30 pm: March to Civic Center.

5:00 pm: Immigrants' Rights May Day Rally at Civic Center.

OAKLAND 6:00 pm: Oakland's Immigrants' Rights May Day Rally at Oakland City Hall.

7:00 pm: Community MAY DAY Potluck Celebration!

ILWU Local 34
801 Second Street
San Francisco, CA 94107