May Day 2018 - Baltimore
Tuesday, May 1 - 5:30 to 7:30 pm
Gather at McKeldin Square, 101 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD (corner of Pratt & Light Sts.)
Hosted by Peoples Power Assembly
We will be gathering @ McKeldin for a brief rally 5:30 pm and marching to several locations to underscore the following issues and demands: OUR DEMANDS ON MAY DAY 2018 WORKERS RIGHTS NOW! We demand decent wages and a $15 minimum wage NOW!; Support teachers and striking workers; Defend workers rights to unionize including prisoners; No Janus; Decriminalize sex work; No privatization of postal services; Support postal workers and community demands for postal banking; Jobs program for all! END RACISM AND POLICE TERROR -- Disband and abolish the corrupt Baltimore Police Department; End cooperation with Israeli companies and the IDF; Divest from the police and prisons, invest in schools; No private police at Johns Hopkins University END THE ATTACKS ON IMMIGRANTS & MUSLIMS! End ICE raids and deportations; Permanent protection, dignity & respect for all migrants; Support restoration of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) JOBS, NOT WAR! Say No to U.S. Imperialism; U.S. Out of the Middle East; Africa; Asia, the Global South and the Caribbean; No war on Syria, Korea, Venezuela, Russia or China; close all U.S. military bases around the world; return Guantanamo to Cuba. FUND PUBLIC EDUCATION -- Fund public schools; $3 billion to Baltimore City in the form of racial equity block grants; equal funding for HBCU (Historic Black Colleges and Universities) in Maryland; Make education affordable to all, cancel college student debt; community control (student, teachers, parents) of Baltimore schools. END VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, THE TRANS COMMUNITY & OPPRESSED GENDERS -- An end to rape culture and violence against women, trans people and the LGBTQ community; end police attacks on trans and LGBTQ community. HEALTH CARE FOR ALL -- This includes free and on demand community focused addiction treatment and decriminalization of drugs; Medicare for all; No privatization of water, instead roll back rates and declare a moratorium on shut-offs: no gas & electric shut offs; affordable nutritious food for all communities. DECENT HOUSING FIT HUMAN BEINGS IS A RIGHT -- No privatization of public housing; Moratorium on evictions, roll back rents; . TRANSPORTATION IS A RIGHT -- SINK THE LINK -- Free accessible transportation for all; restore and expand bus routes; Decent transportation for all communities -- end the apartheid MTA system; community, riders and union control of transit. (If you are unable to physically March, transportation will be provided). Call 443-221-3775
