TORONTO’S 27TH ANNUAL
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ DAY CELEBRATION
CONCESSIONS NO MORE! FIGHT TO DEFEAT AUSTERITY
Saturday, April || 7 pm || Free Times’ Cafe, 320 College St. [two blocks west of Spadina]
$10 waged, $5 non-waged, or PWYC
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Speakers:
Javier Domokos Ruiz Consul General of Cuba in Toronto.
John Clarke organizer for the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.
Myles Magner Vice President-Elect, OPSEU
Farid Ayad National President of the Canadian Arab Federation.
B.C. Holmes representing the Toronto Haiti Action Committee.
Tyler Mackinnon Chair, Youth for Socialist Action.
Barry Weisleder Federal Secretary, Socialist Action, and substitute teachers’ organizer.
M.C.: Elizabeth Byce, Federal Treasurer, NDP Socialist Caucus, and retired member of the Toronto Local, Canadian Union of Postal Workers
Celebrate with entertainers:
Robin Banks, international jazz and blues recording artist,
Jon Brooks, 2010 Winner Kerrville (Texas) New Folk Contest, 2009 Canadian Folk Music Award Nominee ‘Best Songwriter’, 2009 Winner NPR’s Mountain Stage NewSong Contest (Canada);
James Gordon, one of Canada’s most prominent social justice, heritage and environmentalist singers has released over 30 albums as a solo artist or with the legendary folk trio “Tamarack;
Glen Hornblast, folk singer on the social justice scene with a new CD titled “Once in a Blue Moon”;
Diem Lafortune, singer/songwriter whose new CD “Beauty and Hard Times” captures her Prairie Cree, Eastern European, and social justice roots; and
Bill Heffernan, activist, teacher and song smith.
sponsored by Socialist Action / Ligue pour l’Action socialiste
(Fourth Internationalists in the Canadian state)
Event endorsed by: Canadian Arab Federation; Greater Toronto Area Council – OPSEU; Toronto Local – Canadian Union of Postal Workers; Ontario Coalition Against Poverty; Toronto Haiti Action Committee; NDP Socialist Caucus; Cabildo Manuelita Saenz; Youth for Socialist Action; Toronto Forum on Cuba; and Workers’ Solidarity and Union Democracy Coalition.
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