Calum Baird singing at the rally at the Pleasance following the May Day March
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Some footage from the 2018 march
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No Shortcuts
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/
The march leads of from the top of Johnston Terrace at midday – marching down the Royal Mile and then up to the Pleasance. The rally will take place indoors in the Pleasance theatre – our speakers include: Dave Moxham (Deputy General Secretary of the STUC), A.L. Kennedy (author, performer and anti-war campaigner), Jane McAlevey (activist and union organiser from the United States) and Alison Gilmour active in the UCU pensions dispute.
Also singing at the rally after the Edinburgh and Lothians May Day March is Calum Baird. Here’s Calum in 2016
The rally after the march includes speakers, a film and musicians. One of those singing is Penny Stone – the video is of her singing at the Violence of Austerity event last year.
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A chance to get involved – the organising group for the May Day 2018 events meets 7pm at the Epworth Hall, Nicolson Square on Monday 26th February.
The 2018 Edinburgh and Lothians May Day March will be held on Saturday 5th May – make sure it’s in your diary. There will be linked events taking place from the 1st May through to the evening of the 5th May – watch this space for announcements and news.
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