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Tickle Me Pink, It's Mayday! Supported by Tickle me pink, it’s Mayday! A new Millennium of May Day celebrations in Melbourne Andrew Pearson Graffiti Rules, TM. [email protected] Nike charges itself with "Wilful Damage". p.2 There aren't many neighbourhoods in Melbourne that have escaped the announcements S11 protests still alive for this year's May Day celebrations and actions. Police brutality complaints and cream pie stain Posters calling for a blockade of the Australian Bracks. p4 Stock Exchange, stickers persuading us to "shut down corporate Melbourne", emails encouraging The Violence of Globalisation people to form "affinity groups" and make our Women around the world are fed up with boys "resistance as global as capital"; all reflect a playing with toys. p5 growing international sentiment that has found in May Day a common rallying point. May Day Movements for Global Justice The city-wide graffiti slogan "S11=M1" refers to the September 11th protest against the World May Queen and Robin Goodfellow make mayhem on May Day. Global updates, pagan roots of M1. p6-7 Economic Forum, when the exclusive meeting of corporate executives at the Crown Casino was blockaded by thousands of activists for three days Dubya, also known as... last year. Some involved with S11 believe that "Global Warming" Bush commits climate change. 'M1' is the next point of call on the anti- Islands sinking, disease spreading, Dubya beds with globalisation calendar. oil execs. p8 While other activists note that "M1 is a freeway, The Mayday fairy helps a nice police officer with his dusty riot shield May Day a holiday", most will use the day to show From the fire to the pot solidarity with international movements for peace Iraqi people starve under sanctions, flee to escape and justice, and to challenge corporate globalisation speakers. In Melbourne the eight-hour day had anarchists, environmentalists, and community persecution, then locked up in Australian detention and capitalism. already been won by a section of the workforce, activists have worked through networks such as camps. p9 while in Europe the first of May was adopted by the Autonomous Web Of Liberation to organise a So, why May 1st? the Second International Socialist Congress to 'shut down' of corporate Melbourne, starting at Dreaming away Nukes May Day has its roots in early pagan fight the rule of the ten-hour workday. Parliament House at 8:00 am May Day has been celebrated in Melbourne "Corporations are by far the most "Earthdreamers" make nuclear industry go poof. celebrations of the end of winter in Europe. It Waste, however, sticks around. p10 was adopted by the labour movement after since 1893, except in 1941 and 1942 when undemocratic organisations in the world. demonstrations in Chicago in 1886 for an eight actions were banned by the Menzies Everyone answers to someone above them, and hour workday were attacked by police. After a Government. Usually marked by a march and decisions are rarely made in the interest of Angry, not fascists bomb was thrown into the crowd at a mass public meeting, May Day was traditionally communities, but to maximise profits. So people S11 and M1 protesters may be angry, but damn it, meeting two days latter, eight anarchists in organised by the left wing of the Labour are working temporary jobs for bad wages, they're not fascists. p11 Chicago were framed, put on trial, and four movement and its progressive, though not making money for these economic giants. That's hanged, for their involvement. Though later necessarily socialist, allies. In 1896, groups the whole capitalist system,"says Karen, a D-Day pardoned by the Governor of Illinois, the Chicago making up the May Day committees included the Melbourne community activist. "May Day is a "We will fight them on the beaches". p12 anarchists became known as the Haymarket Australian Women's Suffrage Society, the Free day, our day, to fight back, to celebrate our past martyrs. May Day has since commemorated and Discussion Society, the Single Tax League of victories, and imagine a future free from greed celebrated the struggles of working people for Victoria, the Social Democratic Federation, the and injustice." Capitalism is Utopia freedom and justice around the world. Co-operative Propaganda Society and the At their peak in the late 1930s and early Winning lotto numbers, guaranteed money makers, Knights of Labour. 1950s, May Day marches drew over 10,000 free lunches. p13 "Police Searching for Arms" More recent celebrations have included a people. Within the broader theme of international "Business Suspended and Banks Guarded" similarly diverse group of organisations. This labour solidarity, marchers have also spoken out Jedi Knights On Census "Adoption of Repressive Measures" year, a range of socialist organisations, acting as against wars, apartheid, and nuclear power. May Some Australians will list their official religion as Jedi These sensational headlines ran in The Age, the M1 Alliance, is calling for a day-long Day is more than a march, however. There have on the census this August. Darth Vader may not 1890, to introduce Melbourne to the first May blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange on also been public meetings, art and literature accept the results. p13 Day actions in Europe and America. In contrast, Collins Street. Nuclear-Free Victoria has competitions, dances, balls and wreath laying at the "largely attended" meetings at Trades Hall in organised a Picnic for Peace, while Trades Hall the Eight Hours Monument. Melbourne featured a line up of fairly tame sponsors its own Union march. A variety of Story continues on page 4 JediJedi KnightsKnights engageengage DeathDeath StarStar YodaYoda sayssays “May“May TheThe FirstFirst BeBe WithWith You”You” Welcome to M1X Our most offensive shoes ever M1X was put out by a group of independent journalists and community activists. We believe that people around the world working for social change need to deliver their message to the world in their own voice, through their own media. As multinational corporations swallow up media outlets across the globe, and as these corporations consolidate their power to shape our minds through unprecedented mergers and acquisitions, we all need a breath of fresh air. M1X is an open avenue to bring real issues and real discussion back to our public lives. Because we will not fund this effort through advertisements, and because no one is seeking to make a profit out of this venture, we are free to report perspectives, facts and issues that advertisers or corporate executives would find threatening to their market. We are aiming to reach an everyday audience, with articles written by everyday people in an accessible language. We also believe that the "objectivity" strived for by corporate media is merely an excuse to self-censor viewpoints and topics of discussion based on what advertisers and executives demand. Corporate media is neither democratic nor free. Our "bias" is to provide a healthy alternative to the corporate media through accessible, intelligent, and diverse perspectives that challenge corporate and state power. We believe that debates over corporate power, government policy and legitimacy, and the ways that everyday people can build and exercise political power are vital topics of public discourse. Social movements against corporate dominance, globalisation, and capitalism are also movements for peace, justice, environmental sustainability, economic democracy, community empowerment and more. They are movements controlled directly by the people, and thus represent many ideals and strategies for change, and employ many different tactics to demand and make change. One aspect of these movements is the campaign for media democracy, whereby the media is freed from control of corporations and put into the hands of communities, as real tools for discussion. As a way to fight back and provide a positive alternative, we are creating independent community media and encourage everyone, regardless of skill, to write about their lives and the issues that affect us all. We will be putting out other special editions throughout the year, with a variety of names and themes. The success of this May Day edition will influence the direction we take our volunteer work, so your Alex Burns International shoes. They were ('hidden values'). Any activist or feedback and support is extremely important. Turn to page 11 to find out how to help. [email protected] angry about stud patterns and change movement that relied solely If you are interested in writing, please contact us at [email protected], or write tongueless one-piece uppers, angry on these strata for effective M1X c/o The Paper, PO Box 1733 Collingwood Victoria, 3066. Originally published on the Disinformation website (www.disinfo.com) about off-center lacing and dialogue and recruitment could be patented Zoom Air features. They scanned and tracked from afar, and Fans Fight for Fairer Football: were angry that superstar players then manoeuvred into a cul de sac. Made possible by... A Shadowy Activist Group? like Essendon's James Hird and The strategies were not oblique, The Paper has supported the production of M1X in the spirit of creating a forum for One afternoon, my gaze was North Melbourne's Wayne Carey but obvious. First, deny the same critical thought, and enabling the expression of issues that are under or mis-represented drawn to a broadsheet poster by had "sold out" by wearing access to media and control by other, more commercial, media outlets. We hope that M1X will further heighten the Fans Fight for Fairer Football, a performance-enhancing boots. And representations. Second, link discourse around protest and the culture of dissent in Australia. shadowy activist group. Questions even if the world doesn't watch simple ideas, such as "activism" flooded my mind. Had they Australian Rules Football, they and "violence" and "illegitimacy" ABOUT THE PAPER emerged in the wake of the S11 were going to let the world know.
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