May Day Rally – Kansas City Board of Trade
Monday, 30 April, 2012 in Movement Updates, Occupy KC News
On May Day, Occupy Kansas City will gather at the JC Nichols fountain on the plaza at 12:30PM in preparation to pay a visit to the Kansas City Board of Trade, drawing attention to the commoditization of food that negatively impacts the hungry and poor. We then, in solidarity with 115 other cities, will engage the people through educational outreach about the importance of May Day, the Haymarket massacre, and the importance of the General Strike.
OccupyKC in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, Occupations across the country and the world, supports the Occupy May Day General Strike, May 1st. We are also holding a potluck dinner on May Day eve which will include a guest speaker, Professor Fred Lee, who will offer his perspective on the history and the modern significance of May Day and the general strike.
Thousands of Patriots converged this week on DC for the Take Back the Capital event. They are Americans from many walks of life, including “the unemployed and underemployed people from every state, students, community activists, union members, healthcare advocates, and travelers from Occupy sites from coast to coast.”
