UPDATE

Attention, Florida anarchists:

If you want to know the meeting location for the anarchist bloc at the May 1 immigrant rights march in Orlando, please e-mail bennyrizzo@revolution.gq.nu or call 407.252.1379. Otherwise look for us at T.D. Waterhouse Centre/Orlando Centroplex, 600 W. Amelia St., Orlando, FL 32801. The bloc will be meeting between 11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. to walk from our meeting spot to the Centroplex. If you can't meet us then, please arrive at the Centroplex before 1 p.m and look for us. Also use the above contacts if you need info on parking garages/I-4 exits. Please try to arrive as early as possible as the organizers are expecting at least 10,000 people to march, streets will be blocked off and parking will be scarce and a pain in the ass.

Please contact us if you need any info as we will not be posting the meeting spot for the anarchist bloc (the spot where we will meet to walk as a group to T.D. Waterhouse) on-line or in e-mail. If you don't call beforehand and get to Orlando and get lost, call the above number and we'll help you.

We are looking forward to seeing all of you.

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CALL FOR AN ANARCHIST BLOC AT THE MAY 1 IMMIGRANT RIGHTS MARCH IN ORLANDO, FL

!Ningún Estado, Ningunos Jefes, Ningunas Fronteras
Unidas Con Los Trabajadores Inmigrantes Jamás Será Vencido!

"No State, No Bosses, No Borders
United With Immigrant Workers We Will Never Be Defeated"

We call for an anarchist bloc at the statewide immigrant rights march and rally, a "Day of Respect," to be held in Orlando on May Day--Mon., May 1, from noon-4 p.m. in downtown Orlando. (This march and rally is being sponsored by ACORN, the Farmworkers Association of Florida and Jobs with Justice, with support from AFL-CIO unions.)

We call for Florida anarchists to participate in this rally to show support for immigrants, whether documented or undocumented, marching and rallying for greater equality and freedom.

As anarchists, we recognize the need to build a revolutionary anti-authoritarian movement against the system as a whole, and to show the connections between efforts to crackdown on and criminalize undocumented workers with the efforts of the State, which exists to serve the interests of capitalism, to strip away the hard-won rights of all workers and increase their exploitation and corporate profits.

As anarchists we recognize the contribution that all workers, including immigrant workers, make to the social wealth of this, the most affluent society on the planet.

As anarchists we oppose efforts by the State to divide people into arbitrary categories such as "legal" and "illegal" or "citizen" and "non-citizen" and to confer different levels of privilege upon people depending upon which of those categories they may belong to.

As anarchists we oppose efforts by the State to stigmatize and criminalize immigrants whose only "crime" is failing to ask the State for permission to pass through its borders, and we oppose measures, pending in Congress, that would turn undocumented workers into felons.

As anarchists we oppose borders, artificial boundaries created by States, that distort and deform the natural flow and progress of humanity and create divisions and engender bigotry among human beings and that serve elite interests, not the interests of the masses of people, by pitting workers of different national origins against each other, making it harder for us to unite against our real enemies, the capitalist system and the State. As anarchists we recognize that we must work with immigrants to abolish the State's borders from below based upon libertarian principles and practice.

As anarchists we oppose all relationships based upon inequality and dominance and all forms of oppression. Therefore, we oppose the economic exploitation of immigrants and State laws and social conditions which marginalize them, causing them to live in fear and deprivation. As anarchists, we also oppose bigotry and racism, both individual and institutional, based upon characteristics such as national origin, ethnicity and skin color. In recent months, as the Minutemen and other anti-immigrant groups have become more active and gotten more news media attention, the links between those groups and white supremacists and neo-Nazis have become increasingly clear. The anti-immigrant movement is, fundamentally, racist, nationalist and xenophobic, with the ultimate goal of creating a ethnically and racially cleansed whites-only society. As anarchists, we cannot allow that to happen. So we will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with immigrants, nuestros hermanos y nuestras hermanas, our brothers and our sisters, when they demand freedom and dignity and courageously resist oppression by the State, by bosses and by bigots.

As anarchists we support liberty, equality and mutual aid for all and between all. As anarchists we support freedom, equality, dignity for all workers, and the ability of workers to collectively organize to improve wages and working conditions. As anarchists we recognize that all wealth is created by workers and we support the claim of all workers to the social wealth they create. The wealth that workers bring into existence through their sweat and toil belongs to them, not the bosses, the capitalists and the social parasites. As anarchists, we embrace all workers, immigrant and native-born, documented and undocumented, as nuestras camaradas, our comrades. There is now and always has been a class struggle between workers and their exploiters. As anarchists we recognize that this struggle will continue until workers of all nationalities, all ethnicities and all races, documented and undocumented, fulfill their historic mission (as enunciated by the IWW in 1905) to "organize as a class, take possession of the means of production, abolish the wage system, and live in harmony with the Earth" and each other on the basis of mutual respect, cooperation and mutual aid.

Please note: This is a call for an anarchist bloc, NOT a black bloc. It is a call for us as anarchists, united by our affinities and solidarity with each other and with immigrants, to stand should-to-shoulder with each other and with immigrants in support of their demands for freedom, equality and dignity. We respectfully ask that participants in the anarchist bloc NOT wear typical black bloc garb (such as black hoodies) and NOT mask up, NOT engage in any behaviors, such as militant direct action and property destruction, that may detract from what the immigrants hope to achieve with this event and create friction between anarchists and non-anarchists. We also respectfully ask that our signs, banners and literature be pertinent to the event (labor, worker rights, immigrant rights, etc.) and its goals while at the same time reflecting an anarchist analysis of the issues involved. If possible some signs and literature should be in Spanish, Haitian Creole and other languages commonly spoken in Florida immigrant communities. Also if banners, signs and flags are on sticks or poles, the sticks or poles should be easily removable in case of any police harassment over this. Otherwise just make them without sticks or poles.

Meet: Call 407.252.1379 (please leave a voicemail message if we do not answer) and we'll give you details on the meeting point where we'll march from to the beginning of the rally. Otherwise meet in the parking lot of the Orlando Centroplex (T.D. Waterhouse Centre), 600 W. Amelia St., Orlando, FL 32801, between noon and 1 p.m. How to find us: That's easy :) Just look for the punks. Other tips: This will be a 3-mile march, so wear comfortable shoes; bring sunscreen and a hat to protect yourself from the Florida sun; bring water to drink.

Questions: 407.252.1379/orlando_direct_action@yahoo.com

Endorsed by:
• Florida May Day Federation (Orlando)
floridamayday.org (for any updates/announcements) • Fort Lauderdale Food Not Bombs
• ImpAct Collective (Fort Lauderdale)
• Orlando Direct Action
• Orlando Food Not Bombs

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