AWOL - Liberate the Streets MAYDAY call to action
Mayday ( May 1st 2001 )
A W O L - Autonomous Web of Liberation
Mayday ( May 1st ) is a day to celebrate working class solidarity and resistance to Capitalism. In keeping with this tradition AWOL ( Autonomous Web of Liberation ) is calling for an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian day of action.
AWOL is working towards an action around the idea of'Liberate the Streets ' in the City of Melbourne. We are calling on all anti-capitalist groups and individuals who believe in consensus decision making, direct action and who organise on the basis of non-hierachy ( autonomous from all centralisation and bureacracy ), to co-ordinate with us for this action.
We are also calling on you to organise your own actions, affinity groups, clusters, net-works and co-ordinations against Capitalism on Mayday.
Mayday , May 1st is a day of anti-capitalist action and to remember and take inspiration from those who have fought before us. To fight back against bosses and Capitalists at work and in the unions and those who try to control our lives. Mayday incorporates the struggles of all oppressed peoples, resistance to police corruption and surveilance, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and for radical egalitarian futures.
It is a time to remember struggles like the workers struggle for the 8 hour day in Chicago, USA, 1886. The demonstration was attacked by 176 armed police, a bomb thrown by unknown persons, resulted in open fire on the crowd, killing 4 workers and some of their own officers.
8 Anarchists were framed for this attack, a number not even beign in attendance at the time of attack, 'Anarchy was on trial. ' These events and the recognition of brave struggles against bosses and bureacrates and capitalists are a reminder of what the state and capitalists do to us everyday, and why it is important to resist on Mayday, bring struggles together and always fight back.
We hope to occupy and liberate a piece of land, to create a commons for community celebration, a world turned upside down, a glimpse of freedom and ecological survival. A place to share our dreams and visions, an example of a world of respect for diversity and acceptance of difference, direct democracy and community control of resources, free from the tyranny of money, bosses and leaders.
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