A Call to Defend and Extend the Struggle, on May Day and Beyond, Against Repression and Racism, For a World Without Borders

This May Day, Solidarity Without Borders-NYC is calling on our fellow anti-authoritarians, anti-capitalists, and anti-racists to join in a day of action and education in solidarity with the immigrant, indigenous, and labor movements rising up across the continent on this day.

We call on all in solidarity to join your local May Day marches, educate your own communities, and take direct action to dismantle the pillars of repression and racism in your own backyard.

This May Day and beyond, we unite with our sisters and brothers in affected communities with one NO and many yeses:

NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL!

We call on all in solidarity to take direct action to hold I.C.E. and the corporations accountable for their actions against the people.

We denounce the war on immigrant workers, immigrant families, and immigrant youth. Recently, we’ve seen 400 workers rounded up in a single day in the Pilgrim’s Pride raids. We’ve seen laws proposing to ban the Latino student movement. We’ve seen a wave of detentions, deportations, disappearances.

We demand the immediate release of all detainees, immediate moratorium on all raids and deportations, and immediate legalization of all immigrants.

We join our comrades in Washington State in their campaign to SMASH I.C.E. We join our comrades in Canada in their struggle for Status for All.

This May Day and beyond, we stand also with our sisters and brothers across the borders, raising our many voices with one call:

¡YA BASTA! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

We denounce the “Security & Prosperity Partnership” of the U.S., Canadian, and Mexican States which they dared to bring to New Orleans April 20. From New York to New Orleans to Oaxaca, we stand as communities in resistance to SPP and all free trade deals, which free capital and enslave working people.

We denounce the terror that the State continues to wage against indigenous communities across the continent. We declare our outrage at the murder of indigenous activists Teresa Bautista Merino and Felicitas Martinez Sanchez in Oaxaca on April 7, and the continuing invasion of Zapatista lands.

We call on all in solidarity to do everything in our power to shut down the SPP and Plan Mexico, and halt all U.S. aid to Mexican military, paramilitary and police forces in their campaign of terror against the people.

Last but not least, we call on all in solidarity to give real material support and mutual aid to immigrant and indigenous communities in resistance, from El Barrio to Chiapas and Oaxaca.

This May Day and beyond, let our solidarity know no borders, so that one day, our world may know no borders.

In Struggle,

Solidarity Without Borders-New York City

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