CANADIAN LABOUR- WINNIPEG:

THE WINNIPEG WOBBLY ISSUE #4:







Our local branch of the syndicalist Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) union here in Winnipeg is as active as ever. Speaking of May Day (see last post) the IWW has brought out a special May Day edition of the Winnipeg Wobbly. Check it out, especially for the announcements of events here in this burg surrounding the month long May Works (May Day on steroids ????). Here's the announcement from the Winnipeg Wobbly Blog.

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Winnipeg Wobbly #4: May Day Special
Check out the new special May Day edition of our newsletter, the Winnipeg Wobbly!

Included in this edition:

**May Day: The REAL Labour Day
**Party Politics don't Work
**The Belgrade 6 are free!
**Report Back from Winnipeg Israeli Apartheid Week
**Selected Events from the MayWorks Festival



Click Here For The Winnipeg Wobbly Vol. 1 Issue 4

LOCAL EVENTS-WINNIPEG:

MAY DAY IN WINNIPEG:

Like most civilized places on the globe (or perhaps in imitation of such places) Winnipeg will also have its own May Day march tomorrow. Here's the lowdown from the Winnipeg Events calender.

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May Day March:
Join the annual Winnipeg Labour Council march in celebration of May Day. This year will also mark the 90th Anniversary of the Winnipeg General Strike. In recognition of this the march will go past many of the sites that are part of that history.

The march will start in Point Douglas, one of Winnipeg's oldest communities, opposite what was the Vulcan Iron Works in 1919. It will then go past Victoria Park; the site of the original Labour Temple; Hell's Alley and the site were Mike Sokolowski was shot and killed in the charge of the NWMP. With Ken Georgetti, President of the Canadian Labour Congress and others.
Assemble at 6:00 pm, Joe Zuken Memorial Park (corner of Sutherland & Maple).

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The May Day march is only part of a month-long "May Works" Festival here in the Peg. Here's a brief listing of events from the May Works site. Refer to the original for more details. Some of what is listed below, of course, begs for comment, and perhaps I'll do same in a future post.

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Event Calendar
May 2009:
01
May Day March (6:00 pm)
Bringing Home the Bacon: An Exhibition of Art and Labour in Manitoba (8:00 pm)
02
GWG: Piece by Piece with music by Maria Dunn (1:30 pm)
Manitoba Cuba Solidarity (7:00 pm)
03
Spring Concert (1:30 pm)
May Day Banquet (6:00 pm)
04
May 4 Capitalism Hits the Fan (7:00 pm)
07
Insurrection (7:30 pm)
08
Rekindling the Spirit of 1919 - Conference (7:00 pm)
09
Rekindling the Spirit of 1919 (10:00 am)
Mostly Mandolins (8:00 pm)
10
General Strike Bus Tour (12:00 pm)
Rise Up Singing (7:30 pm)
12
The Trial of William A. Pritchard (7:30 pm)
13
Kerry Pither's Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror (7:00 pm)
14
The Notorious Mrs. Armstrong (2001) (7:00 pm)
21
Privatize this! (5:00 pm)
22
"Tory Times: The Right is Wrong" (7:15 pm)
23
Strike! - Winnipeg Shocks the Nation (1:00 pm)
24
Doors Open Festival (10:00 am)
30
MayWorks Picnic (12:00 pm)
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