The next May Day Organising meeting is Monday 25th February 7pm at the Epworth Halls, Nicolson Square
Image by Molly Adams CC BY 2.0 May Day – Workers Strike 2017 Los Angeles
Calum Baird singing at the rally at the Pleasance following the May Day March
Some footage from the 2018 march
Edinburgh Commemoration of the 34rd Anniversary of the Bhopal Gas Disaster
Sunday, 2 December 2018 at 4.30pm in Greyfriar’s Kirkyard
Please join us in remembering all those whose lives have been and continue to be affected by this ongoing tragedy.
We will have music from Protest in Harmony, Edinburgh’s radical choir.
Sara Marsden of Trade Union Friends of Bhopal will speak.
Anyone is welcome to come, lay a wreath or speak
May Day 2019 organising meeting – Monday 26 November, 7pm at the Epworth Halls, Nicolson Square – come along if you want to get involved
At the last two organising meetings we’ve been looking at the feedback from the 2018 events and starting the planning for 2019. We’ve seen a steady increase in numbers on the march over the last two or three years and the other events around May Day have been popular. The events rely 100% on donations and we’re hugely grateful to all those who contributed in 2018. Costs are rising though, and on the year we had a deficit of a thousand pounds. If you are a member of a trade union (or community organisation) do take a resolution to the next meeting asking for support for Edinburgh and Lothians May Day – if you would like an official request email robplynl@hotmail.com
The 2019 march and rally will take place on Saturday 4th May. We expect other events to be organised around that date.
The first organising meeting for the May Day 2019 events is at the Epworth Halls, Nicolson Square on Monday 24th September at 7pm. Come along if you want to get involved.
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7pm at the Grassmarket Centre on Thursday 3rd May as part of the Edinburgh and Lothian May Day events.
From 12.30pm stalls at the Pleasance Cabaret Bar include SfbBooks, Peace Groups, UAF, Green Trade Unionists, IWW, SUTR, Campaign Against Poverty, ACE, Abortion Rights, Living Rent, SPSC and Edinburgh Trades Council
The rally is upstairs in the theatre (times approximate):
12.40pm Film – Making it Work – lives and experience of lone parents in North Edinburgh
1.00pm Music – Penny Stone (Edinburgh CND
1.10pm Speaker – Dave Moxham (STUC)
1.20pm Speaker – AL Kennedy (author)
1.30pm Speaker – Alison Gilmour (UCU activist)
1.40pm Speaker – Jane McAlevey (author and activist)
1.55pm Music – Calum Baird
Jane McAlevey’s new book ‘No Shortcuts: organizing for power in the new gilded age’ will be available for £10 on the SfbBooks stall.
Penny Stone singing at the 2017 rally:CC0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/petepolitics/34331862602/in/album-72157683417103196/
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