MAY 1st International Workers Days / General Strike
Join the 99% of Fargo-Moorhead (you!) for a potluck picnic and a march in celebration of this holiday!

What: Potluck Picnic and March
When: 5pm May 1st 2012
Where: Civic Center Park, Downtown Fargo
Organized by OFM and endorsed by a slew of community organizations such as FM InfoShop The New Direction, Red River Industrial Workers of the World, Fargo Moorhead Freedom Fighters, OrderAmerican.com, Peace Talk Radio and more. Thanks to the HPR for placing it in the best bets.

If you are an organization that wants to be involved and/or endorse this event, please email: redriverradical@live.com or OFMpressrelease@gmail.com

WE HOPE YOU WILL ALL JOIN US!

*Note, if you are interested in an occupation, BRING TENT, as we will march to our destination later in the evening!

Fore information and a the May Day Directory please visit:
http://www.occupywallst.org/article/may-day/

May 1st is celebrated around the world as International Workers Day, celebrating the struggle at Haymarket for the 8 hour workday in 1886. Despite celebrating events that happened in the U.S., May Day is rarely properly observed in its country of origin. This year the 99% resolves to celebrate right with a nation General Strike. We invite you to join us for a picnic to celebrate International Workers Day, and meet fellow workers of the 99%. Then we will march in solidarity with the national General Strike.

NO WORK * NO SCHOOL * NO BANKING * NO HOUSEWORK * NO SHOPPING

BRING TENT

When: Tuesday May 1st 2012 at 5pm
Where: Fargo City Center / Civic Center Park
What: Picnic/Rally/Solidarity Gathering
-Food provided, but this is also a pot luck.

When: Tuesday May 1st 2012 @ 6:30pm
Where: Triangle Park
What: March through downtown to new Spring Occupation. Bring Tent.

Endorsed by:
-Occupy Fargo-Moorhead
-The Red River Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
-The FM InfoShop
-Full list coming soon...

"To the activist, the rebel, the revolutionary, the dreamer. To all who believe in a better world. To those who have found their voice, and those voices that have been met with the sniper's bullet. To those whose voices have been taken from them. To the peaceful who have been met with brutality and violence, the loving who have been met with hatred. Those who beg for understanding, but are met with ridicule. The free thinkers, the questioners, the dissenters, those who have woken up, and now rattle the chains that have held us down. To the freedom fighters all around the globe.

Raise your fists, break your chains. Shake the world under your feet, and make a noise so loud, that the 1% will cower in their marble halls. For the time of The People has come. Those who consider themselves our masters will find themselves standing in the path of a force the likes of which the world has never seen. For the world relied on our compliance. Our silence, our sheepish ways of living how we are told, for our acceptance of the oppressor’s so called power. But this power was an illusion. Yes the power did not lie in the bank accounts, the pockets of CEOs, the chambers of Ivory towers under lock and key. No. the power has been with The People. The people who survive day to day. The children who cry at night from the pains of hunger, the students who dreams were stolen from them, or sold at prices so high, there is no hope of escape. Those who face violence and weaponry, and defend themselves with nothing but an idea. But it is this idea you see, that makes them strong. An idea cannot be beaten. An idea cannot be gassed, or shot. For it lives in our very souls, and no matter what stands against us, this idea cannot be destroyed.

So my fellow people, rise up without fear. Take back what is rightfully yours. This world belongs to you. You are powerful. You are a force so strong that Mother Nature herself cowers in your presence. This world will bend to your demands, and begin anew. Our battle cries will be heard in every street, echo off every building, and shatter the very foundations of all those who enslave us. For we are many. We are strong. We are awake. We are above your fear mongering, you who seek to silence us. You cannot threaten us with lies of alarm and panic. Your words are mist that dissipates as we march. Though the night may be long, and the oppressive darkness may seem so deep, that the dawn seems an impossible distant dream, we shall march. We will take to the streets, and march on until we reach a dawn that mankind has never been witness to. This dawn will produce a light so strong that the fear hatred and doubt in our hearts will vanish like the early morning dew upon a blade of grass. Our hearts will instead be a raging inferno that cannot be extinguished. Fear us you 1%, for we are coming, and we are already here. We are many, and We are one. We are here, and everywhere. We are united and cannot be divided. You are no longer our masters, and we no longer bend to your will.

My fellow freedom fighters. Do not despair. No laws can choke out the fire that is already raging around this world. They will ridicule you, they will fight against you. Your peaceful actions will be met with such force, it may seem as if there truly is no chance. But I am telling you now. This fear is the sound of the world changing. It is the sound of the wings of change ushering in a new era. The People’s era. Do not despair youth of this world. This new world belongs to you. We will carry this world into the light of truth and equality. Our time has come. Your time has come. Stand with me my brothers and sisters, it is time to celebrate. No longer feel your pain and sufferings. For the world is changing. Yes, the old world is slipping away, and in its stead a new world has arisen. The world as it truly should be. Be strong, my comrades, and we shall see the dawn of the People.

Solidarity to the freedom fighters across this world.

Join us on May 1st to take the streets"
Written by Maddie from Occupy Naperville

More Insight:
http://www.occupytogether.org/2012/04/02/3333/
http://www.occupymay1st.org/

This will be a direct action event and we encourage the Fargo – Moorhead community to get involved any way they can!

Come to our General Assembly meetings where we do the planning and decision-making for the group. Everyone that supports the movement is welcome to come to any and all of the General Assemblies. Currently, we are having these meetings every Sunday at 6pm at the New Direction at 14 Roberts St in downtown Fargo. It’s at the basement level in the space which was previously the Red Raven. We may change times or locations though, so it is best to check our Facebook page or Check back here.

National Call to Action Made by the Portland General Assembly – January 1st, 2012

Occupy Portland calls for a national day of non-violent direct action to reclaim our voices and challenge our society’s obsession with profit and greed by shutting down the corporations.  We are rejecting a society that does not allow us control of our future. We will reclaim our ability to shape our world in a democratic, cooperative, just and sustainable direction.

We call on the Occupy Movement and everyone seeking freedom and justice to join us in this day of action.

There has been a theft by the 1% of our democratic ability to shape and form the society in which we live and our society is steered toward the destructive pursuit of consumption, profit and greed at the expense of all else.

We call on people to target corporations that are part of the American Legislative Exchange Council which is a prime example of the way corporations buy off legislators and craft legislation that serves the interests of corporations and not people. They used it to create the anti-labor legislation in Wisconsin and the racist bill SB 1070 in Arizona among so many others. They use ALEC to spread these corporate laws around the country.

In doing this we begin to recreate our democracy. In doing this we begin to create a society that is organized to meet human needs and sustain life.

On February 29th, we will reclaim our future from the 1%. We will shut down the corporations and recreate our democracy.

Join us! Leap into action! Reclaim our future!  Shut down the corporations!

*This call to action was issued by the Portland General Assembly on January 1st, 2012 with unanimous support.

MORE INFORMATION HERE: SHUTDOWNTHECORPORATIONS.ORG

ATTENTION!  The OFM General Assembly will have guest joining us from the Industrial Workers of the World, planning an act of solidarity for our brothers and sisters that have been locked our of American Crystal Sugar for more than half year. Join us in the discussion and planning.