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M A Y D A Y 2 0 0 0
Global Day of Action, Resistance and Carnival
INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS AND RESOURCES LIST
(last updated on January 10, 2000)
LATEST ADDITIONS TO THIS LIST:
New contacts in:
Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
Ottawa, Canada
Toronto, Canada
Greece
Gainesville, Florida, USA
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Madison, Wisconsin, USA (one more)
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
New mailing lists:
Southwest USA
Web co-ordination
Anarchoprop
New web sites:
Mid-Atlantic Infoshop
Mayday 2000 in London
New section:
Texts useful for Mayday co-ordination
- Mayday 2000 information text (English)
- Mayday 2000 International Contacts and Resources
List
- Resource list for the international promotion of
Mayday 2000
CONTENT:
I. General info about this list
II. CONTACTS in
Australia
Canada
England
Greece
United States of America
III. RESOURCES
A. Mailing lists
B. Web sites
C. Texts useful for Mayday co-ordination
IV. The Mayday 2000 Global Day of Action
V. References
I. GENERAL INFO ABOUT THIS LIST
The contacts and resources list below is for activists
planning to take action on May 1, 2000 as part of a
GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION, RESISTANCE, AND CARNIVAL AGAINST
CAPITALISM. This day will continue the June 18 and
November 30 global days of action that took place in
1999. (see sections IV and V for more info)
The contacts list serves to facilitate decentralized
and non-hierarchic networking for the day among
sympathetic groups and individuals. If you plan to
take action, please check that the relevant contact
information below is correct. For additions,
corrections or comments, please contact
<[log in to unmask]>.
Anyone planning to take action can send in contact
information to facilitate networking. This can be for
instance (i) a particular group, (ii) a coalition of
groups or individuals, or (iii) a single individual.
Contact information may include for instance (a) name
of country, city, and state; (b) name of group,
coalition, or individual; (c) events being planned;
(d) land address; (e) email address; (f) telephone
number; (g) fax number; (h) web site, (j) mailing
list. When you send in your contact information,
please write “New M1 contact in [your country,
city/location]” in the subject field.
Please note that the contacts list is public.
The resources list gives information about resources
that will be of use for co-ordinative and preparatory
work, e.g. mailing lists, web sites, and various
texts.
II. CONTACTS
(# countries: 5, # specific locations: 13)
AUSTRALIA
Sydney
Contact: MD2k Sydney
Email: [log in to unmask]
Wollongong, New South Wales
Contact: Van Badham
Email: [log in to unmask]
CANADA
Ottawa
Contact: [log in to unmask]
Toronto
Contact: Stephen Kerr (International Socialists,
International Solidarity with Workers in Russia,
Toronto Anti-WTO Coalition)
Telephone: 416-778-1319
Email: [log in to unmask]
ENGLAND
London
Group: MayDay 2000
Planned event: “MAYDAY 2000: A Festival of Anarchist
Ideas and Action”, 28th April - May 1.
Land address: BM Mayday, London, WC1N 3XX, UK
Telephone/Fax: +44 (0) 20 8374 5027
Press enquiries: 07989 451 096
Email enquiries: [log in to unmask]
Web site: http://www.freespeech.org/mayday2k/
Discussion list: To join the UK mailing list, send a
blank email to
<[log in to unmask]>.
GREECE
Contact: J18 Hellas
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web site: http://www.geocities.com/j18hellas
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Chicago, Illinois
Contact: Thomas Johansson
Email: [log in to unmask]
Gainesville, Florida
Planned event: Labor videos, march/critical mass,
speakout, picnic, dance party, etc. and pirate radio
broadcast of the events. On April 28-30, campout in
Ocala National Forest with direct action training,
workshops on labor history, diy health, practical
anarchism, sustainability, homebrewing, polyamory,
pagan culture, kids crafts, midwifery, herbalism,
composting, etc., an acoustic music festival, and much
involvement from Food Not Bombs, Earth First, IWW, and
the Radical Cheerleaders.
Land address: PO Box 17838, Clearwater, FL 33762
Telephone: (727) 538-9050
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web site: www.geocities.com/maydayflorida/
Lincoln, Nebraska
Contact: [log in to unmask]
Madison, Wisconsin
* Contact: Wisconsin Earth Day to May Day Coalition
Planned events: Earth Day to May Day events
Telephone: 608-255-1800 and 608-262-9036
Land address: 31 University Square, Taychopera,
Madison, Wisconsin 53713
Email: not known
* Contact: Collective Whole Grain Education
Association
Contact person: Kyle Tanner
Telephone: 608.280.8615
Email: [log in to unmask]
New orleans, Louisiana, USA
Contact: MayDay organizing committee for New Orleans,
LA
Phone number: (504) 945-4652 or (504) 897-3310
Web Site:
http://www.angelfire.com/la2/neworleansanarchists/mayday.index
Email: <[log in to unmask]> or
<[log in to unmask]>
New York City, New York
Email: [log in to unmask]
Philadelphia / New York City / Washington DC area
Planned event: Carnival against capitalism
Contact: Zeljko (Jake) Cipris
Land address: 90 Undercliff Road, Millburn, NJ 07041
Telephone: 973-467-6773
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phoenix, Arizona
Contact: Arizona Direct Action
Contact person: Randall Smith
Email: [log in to unmask]
Telephone: (520) 717-6011
Discussion list: To join the Southwest USA regional
mailing list, go to
<www.onelist.com/subscribe/ArizonaDirectAction>, or
send a blank email to
<[log in to unmask]>.
Washington, District of Colombia
Contact: Mid-Atlantic Infoshop
Planned event: not known
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web site: http://www.infoshop.org/
III. RESOURCES
A. MAILING LISTS
The mailing lists below may be suitable for
discussions and co-ordinative work surrounding the
Mayday 2000 Global Day of Action. Please note that the
lists are public and that anyone can subscribe to
them; therefore be careful about what you write.
Please do set up a list for your own language, country
or city, if you feel it is needed!
Some companies give you a free email address you can
name by yourself and that will not be easily traceable
to you. The company may choose to reveal your
identity, so it is not 100% 'safe'. See e.g.
www.hotmail.com, www.yahoo.com, www.mailexcite.com,
www.rocketmail.com, and www.geocities.com .
ENGLISH (international mailing list)
<[log in to unmask]>. For discussion, co-ordination,
and announcements surrounding the Mayday 2000 Global
Day of Action. Members have access to a calendar and
file area, where they are encouraged to place files
(posters, flyers, stickers, etc.) The primary language
is English. Send a blank email to
<[log in to unmask]> to join, or do so at
www.onelist.com/subscribe/mayday2k .
PORTUGUESE (international mailing list)
<[log in to unmask]>. Originally set up for
communication around the November 30 Global Day of
Action, this list lingers on as a suitable forum for
discussing Mayday 2000. The primary language is
Portuguese. Join by sending an empty note to
<[log in to unmask]>.
UNITED KINGDOM (national mailing list)
<[log in to unmask]>. A Mayday 2000 mailing list
for UK discussions. Join by sending a blank email to
<[log in to unmask]>.
IRELAND (national mailing list)
Ireland specific anti-WTO mailing list. Join by
sending a blank email to
<[log in to unmask]>.
SOUTHWEST USA (Regional mailing list)
<[log in to unmask]>. The language of
this list is English. To join, send a blank email to
<[log in to unmask]> or go to
<www.onelist.com/subscribe/ArizonaDirectAction>.
WEB CO-ORDINATION (subject specific mailing list)
<[log in to unmask]>. A forum for people working with
web sites and other internet resources around the
Mayday 2000 Global Day of Action, to facilitate the
discussion, dissemination, and co-ordination of these
resources. To subscribe, please send an email to
<[log in to unmask]>.
ANARCHOPROP (subject specific mailing list)
Email list dedicated to propaganda. People and groups
post the texts of their pamphlets etc., for anyone to
copy and use. To join, send an empty message to
<[log in to unmask]>.
For more information, email
<[log in to unmask]>.
B. WEB SITES
Below is a list of web sites with information relevant
to M1.
If you want to set up a web page, some companies
provide space in return for advertising on your pages.
Be warned that they may remove your pages if they do
not like what you say. Free page providers include
www.geocities.com and www.tripod.com .
International Lobster Party
http://www.lobster1.dircon.co.uk/md_index.html
Contact: [log in to unmask]
Requests info about any good mayday links or new
mailing lists for any language.
Mid-Atlantic Infoshop
http://www.infoshop.org/mayday2000.html
Contact: [log in to unmask]
Mayday 2000 in London
http://www.freespeech.org/mayday2k/
Peoples’ Global Action (PGA)
http://www.go.to/agp
http://www.agp.org
(plans to set up a Mayday 2000 website)
Contact: [log in to unmask]
Requests help with shaping an interactive PGA website
for information in several languages, contact
addresses, how to subscribe to lists planning stuff,
self desciptions of groups and movements, pictures,
sharing flyers, political analysis, realtime video
footage and sound recordings, updates about actions
around the world, etc. Contact <[log in to unmask]>
or <[log in to unmask]>.
C. TEXTS USEFUL FOR MAYDAY CO-ORDINATION
Below is a list of texts that can be used to promote
or spread information about Mayday 2000.
Mayday 2000 information text (English)
Updated, concise text about what the Mayday 2000
Global Day of Action is, including basic information
of how to get involved.
To get the text as an attached Word document, write to
<[log in to unmask]> with the subject line:
“REQUEST: Mayday 2000 information text”
Mayday 2000 International Contacts and Resources List
Includes contact information of all Mayday 2000
contacts around the world who plan action, as well as
information of major resources available, such as
mailing lists, web sites, and texts.
To get the list as an attached Word document, write to
<[log in to unmask]> with the subject line:
“REQUEST: Mayday 2000 International Contacts and
Resources List”
Resource list for the international promotion of
Mayday 2000
Aims at listing all countries in the world, and all
local groups that we might contact for promoting
Mayday or any later Global Day of Action against
Capitalism in any particular country.
To get the list as an attached Word document, write to
<[log in to unmask]> with the subject line:
“REQUEST: List for the international promotion of
Mayday 2000”
IV. THE MAYDAY 2000 GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION
The two Global Days of Action against Capitalism on
June 18 and November 30 last year were generally very
successful. Our networks grew, we learned much, and we
saw many new people engage themselves.
Now many groups around the world are preparing for a
global day of action in the same spirit on May 1,
2000, again in recognition that the capitalist system,
based on the exploitation of people, societies and the
environment for the profit of a few, is the prime
cause of our social and ecological troubles. This day
will continue the process of building up a strong,
bold, and creative grassroots movement for a society
in which people do not exploit or oppress each other,
communities or the environment, but one that is based
on solidarity, co-operation, grassroots democracy, and
ecological sustainability. May 1, which offers a
perfect symbolic and real opportunity to do this, has
been endorsed as a Day of Action by the international
Peoples’ Global Action (PGA) conference in India in
August. Also, co-ordinative preparations for M1 have
already been reported by groups in major cities like
Sydney (Australia), Toronto (Canada), London (UK),
Chicago, New York, and Washington (USA).
As on previous occasions, people of different
movements and different countries will join forces for
a day against the social, political, and economic
institutions of the capitalist system. Workers, the
unemployed, students, trade unionists, peasants, the
landless, fishers, women groups, ethnic minorities,
indigenous peoples, peace activists, environmental
activists, ecologists, and so on will work in
solidarity with one another in the understanding that
their various struggles are not isolated from each
other. The simultaneous occupation and transformation
of the capitalist social order around the globe – in
the streets, neighbourhoods, fields, factories,
offices, commercial centres, financial districts, and
so on – will strengthen mutual bonds at the local,
national, and international levels.
As before, the day will be organised in a
non-hierarchical way, as a decentralised and informal
network of grassroots groups that employ
non-authoritarian, grassroots democratic forms of
organisation, struggle independent of the social,
political, and economic institutions of the capitalist
system, and seek to effect change directly through
their own action. Each event or action will be
organised autonomously by each group, while for
instance coalitions of various movements and groups
can be formed at the local, regional, and national
levels. A strategy that may be useful at the local
level is that various groups co-operate in creating a
surrounding atmosphere of carnival and festivity as a
setting for their various actions.
Examples of conceivable actions are:
strikes demonstrations critical mass bike rides
carnivals street parties reclaiming streets,
government land or office buildings for non-commersial
and good activities marches music dancing
speeches handing out flyers banner hangings
distributing community controlled newspapers street
theatre building gardens handing out free food
mock trade fairs offering no interest loans outside
major banks solidarity actions pickets
occupations of offices blockades and shutdowns
appropriating and disposing of luxury consumer goods
sabotaging, wrecking, or interfering with capitalist
infrastructure appropriating capitalist wealth and
returning it to the working people declaring oneself
independent from capitalism and authoritarian
governments setting up grassroots' community
councils and holding meetings outside city halls
setting up economic alternatives, like workers'
co-operatives promoting economic alternatives to
capitalist companies promoting grassroots based
forms of community organisation
If you or your group plan to join this day of action,
please let others know as soon as possible, to
facilitate networking and communication. There are
several international mailing lists available for open
discussions and co-ordination (see below). A public
international contacts list is regularly posted to
them in order to facilitate decentralized and
non-hierarchic networking. To have your contact
information added to it, please contact
<[log in to unmask]>, indicating (a) the country and
location in which you plan to take action, plus any
other information you see fit, for instance (b) the
name of your group, coalition or yourself, (c) the
events or actions being planned, (d) your land
address, (e) email address, (f) telephone number, (g)
fax number or (h) web site.
There are many things we need to do, to make the best
of May 1 at the global, local, and national levels. We
need to spread information about it among as many
suitable groups and movements as possible. We need to
spread and share propaganda materials, such as
leaflets and posters. And, in general, we need to
share our experiences, thoughts and ideas with one
other and help each other out. At the local level,
information about the day needs to be spread and
discussed among groups and individuals, meetings need
to be organised, events planned, leaflets printed and
distributed, funds raised, laughter and conversation
shared.
The process of building up our movements can and
should be continued through further global days of
action against capitalism in the future. A suitable
occasion that has been proposed for next time, after
Mayday, may be September 27-28, 2000, because of the
annual meeting between the International Monetary Fund
(IMF) and the World Bank taking place in Prague, Czech
Republic at that time. (Any other proposals?)
Any ‘inquiries’ or concerns about the Mayday global
day of action should be directed to other activists in
the group, city, country or on the various mailing
lists, for us to mutually help each other with ideas
and advise. There is noone in charge or pulling the
strings for the day. It will be a radically
decentralised and non-hierarchic event entirely of our
own creation in co-operation and solidarity with one
another.
V. REFERENCES
Mayday 2000 Global Day of Action (M1)
See for instance
www.lobster1.dircon.co.uk/md_index.html or
www.infoshop.org/mayday2000.html
June 18, 1999 Global Day of Action (J18)
see www.infoshop.org/june18.html or www.j18.org
November 30, 1999 Global Day of Action (N30)
see http://go.to/n30 or www.seattlewto.org/n30
Peoples’ Global Action (PGA)
see www.go.to/agp or www.agp.org/agp/index.html or
contact <[log in to unmask]>
Prague, Czech Republic, September 27-28, 2000
see www.bankwatch.org or www.mmf2000.webjump.com
!!! P L E A S E F O R W A R D W I D E L Y !!!
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