DC to Demand Statehood on May 1

Statehood Action Forum
University of the District of Columbia
May 1, 2008 -- 7pm to 9pm

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Celebrate Workers Rights and Struggle
& Work for Statehood
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Join together again with Statehood leaders in a social atmosphere to
learn more about DC's history, enjoy some refreshments, listen to music,
and hopefully leave with a few new acquaintances and positive knowledge.

Featuring:
* Dr. Jared Ball and Hip-Hop Genius Head-Roc
Bringing the "Capitol Resistance Tour" ...highlighting the
uber-capitalista ways of an elite wealthy class of greedmongers ~ and
the consequences to the working people both in DC and abroad.

* Mary Harding, PhD in labor history at UDC, will speak on the DC Labor
Movement, 1930s-1950s: "His Story, Her Story, Our Story"

Our evening's MC is Renee Bowser, who ran a valient campaign for Ward 4
last May 1. http://www.reneebowser.com

FOR MORE INFO:
web: http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org/events
phone: 202-483-4165

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Other MAYDAY Activities

1) NOON -- End Racism in the DC Fire Dept.

May 1st rally against racism and graft in DC Fire
Department -- For more information:
Rick Tingling-Clemmons 202.397.2277

There will be a rally on May 1, 2008 from 12 noon to
2:00 pm, across the street from the Fire Department
Headquarters on Vermont Ave, NW. We will meet at the
Civil War Memorial on U Street, NW.

Find out why:
E.R.A.S.E. (End Racism And Stop Exploitation)
http://abolishracism.blogspot.com/

2) 4PM -- Immigrants Rights Rally
Gather at Malcolm X Park; March at 6pm
http://www.mexicanossinfronteras.org/1o_de_mayo_2008/index.htm

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Hope to see you out there... let me know if we mite meet up.
Chris O.
202-536-4065

PS: Here's a description of the Statehood Action Forum at UDC as
announced by Head-Roc...

"All in the DC Metro area are invited to experience this high-energy,
multi-faceted and multi-media assault on institutionalized mechanisms of
division and suppression. Capitol Resistance offers, via hip-hop
performance and history, an outreach method and challenge to People of
Culture to assertively organize so that we may develop a world in our
making. Its "mixtape" feel is designed to recapture that element of
hip-hop – the mixtape as the culture's original mass medium – to affirm
our right to take without sanction the space needed to communicate
dissident thought and to offer space for that thought to become
organized political movement in Washington, DC!"

Statehood Action Forum
UDC, Building 39, Second Floor
7PM to 9PM
Refreshments available
http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org/events
http://www.head-roc.com