MAY FIRST - MAY DAY ACTIVITIES IN THE BAY AREA & BEYOND

In San Rafael
Canal Community Council Celebrates International Workers Day
Thursday, May 1st, 2008  from 6p.m. to 9p.m.
Open House & Community Celebration
Canal Alliance Building 86C,  Second Floor, San Rafael

Featuring Guest Speakers:
Ethel Seiderman – Community Leader
David Escobar – Assistant to Supervisor Steve Kinsey

Regional Foods, Presentations, and Community Information!
Come meet and celebrate with your neighbors!

Translation and childcare will be provided!
For More Information:  415-306-0440 or 415-306-0449

Canal Youth Organize Alternative 5 de Mayo Celebration
Saturday, May 3, 2008, 1:00 - 7:00 pm
Canal Alliance parking lot at 91 Larkspur Street, San Rafael

Youth leaders from the Canal Alliance College Program are organizing the Third Annual Unity4commUnity in Honor of 5 de Mayo event.  Entertainment for this afternoon celebration features the diversity the Canal neighborhood – including tango, salsa, & belly, and Maya dancers, reggeaton singers, and a Pop en Español band .

The event promotes a safe, alcohol-free, family oriented environment to enjoy this holiday which commemorates the victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. The public may call 454-2640 from more event information.


In Oakland
May Day March - Families Call for "No War, No Walls, No Raids"
Thursday, May 1 from 3:00 - 7:30 pm

3:00-4:00 - Rally & Cultural Performances at Fruitvale Bart Plaza
4:00-6:00 - March down International Blvd to Oakland City Hall
6:00-7:30 - Rally & Cultural Performances at City Hall, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza Oakland

Community members are calling for human rights, unity, social services and sanctuary.  The march will be a multicultural, intergenerational event, planned by a coalition of community based organizations, community clinics, labor unions, student groups, and anti-war organizations.  

In San Jose
May Day March
Thursday, May 1
Starting at 4:00 pm at King Road and Story Road
(Parking at Mi Pueblo Foods) and ending at San Jose City Hall at Santa Clara Street and Fourth Street. For more information contact 408-203-1696.

San Francisco
Rally Against the War
Thursday, May 1 -Join ILWU at 10:30 am at
Beach & Mason near ILWU Union Hall,
march along Embarcadero for a rally 12:00 PM at Justin Herman Plaza (opposite Ferry Bldg). http://maydayilwu.googlepages.com/ 

Then take BART to 16th & Mission for the Workers United Without Borders rally and march.

Rally and March for Immigrant Rights
Dolores Park (Dolores St. & 18th St.)
2 PM Rally and March
 
Civic Center
5 PM Rally
 
For more information, 415 933 2319 or sfamnistia@gmail.com or http://movement4amnesty.googlepages.com/

In Sonoma
March and Rally
Thursday, May 1 gather at 12:00 noon, march starts at 1:00 pm
Meet at 665 Sebastopol Avenue (the old Albertsons Shopping Center) and march to Julliard Park (Santa Rosa Avenue) for rally. For more information, 707-571-7559

In Sacramento
Protest, March and Rally
Thursday, May 1 at the Capitol Building
11:00 - 6:30 pm
For more information, 916-446-3021 or nadn916@aol.com.