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May Day in Aotearoa - Indymedia
May Day in Aotearoa - Indymedia
The 1st of May is International Workers Day, and will be commemorated throughout Aotearoa with a series of marches, rallies, concerts and picnics.
Auckland
- Rally at 2pm bottom of Q
St for open mike
- 3pm march up Queen St to Albert Park
for speeches and music. Followed by drinks at the Maritime
Club 68 Anzac Ave
Palmerston North
- May Day
Concert at the Regent Theatre, Palmerston North
- 7.30pm
Our 10th Anniversary of celebrating International Workers
Day.
Entry by gold coin donation.Guests include Aussie
folksinger Maurie Mulheron. He has sung with Pete Seeger
and has some great stories about
this.
Wellington
- 12:15pm March starts from
Cenotaph, Lambton Quay
- 2:00pm Concert starts in Civic
Square Concert includes food, fun and music.
Performers
include Brass Razoo, The Carnys, Choir Choir Pants on Fire,
DonFranks, Dead Vicious, Mr Sterile Assembly, MC Dissident,
The Deadline andmore
For more information:
mayday@eclectic.org.nz, 04 971 6695
Dunedin
- Rally/protest meeting at the Octagon at 12 noon. Food
Not Bombs will be there too.
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