There will be a second Mayday 2002 planning meeting on Sunday 9th December, 2pm at London Action Resource Centre, corner of Fieldgate St and Parfett St, London E2. Nearest tube, Aldgate East and Aldgate.

In the first half of the meeting we will discuss a mass action for May 1st, in the second half of the meeting we will discuss the possibility of making Mayday part of a week long festival with events/workshops on other days, IN ADDITION TO the action on Mayday itself.

May 1st:
At the first planning meeting, it was decided that people did want a mass action in London on May 1st.
2 ideas for this were proposed: a radical multi-sided game of football through the streets of London and a mass picnic/party.
Nothing was really decided on, so please bring any suggestions you have for actions on Mayday.

Mayday week:
3 ideas were proposed for the days leading up to and/or following May 1st (which falls on a wednesday, with the bank holiday the weekend after). These were:

1. Festival of Alternatives - A week of workshops, film showings (in all kinds of places), art exhibitions, music, discussions and actions which reflect the future kind of society we want to have after the fall of capitalism and which reflects the creative DIY culture of autonomy, co-operation, solidarity and ecological harmony. To cultivate a popular critical understanding of the state, consumer culture, capitalism and wage labour, and an understanding of our history, politics and goals.

2. Week of community based action - decentralised, local actions meant to arouse, empower and forge lasting networks for grass roots social change.

3.Series of days of anti-work themed actions and events, addressing wage labour, claimants unions, social disobedience etc.

4. Days of discussion - where we go out and talk to people in our communities about our politics and ideas.

There was a general feeling that the above ideas were quite similar and could be combined and used as a starting point for some sort of week-long festival-type thing. There was also a feeling that while we did want a large event/action of some sort on Mayday itself, we also wanted to use this to promote longer term things we were involved in, and having reclaimed Mayday, to use it to create sustainable year-round action.

PLEASE BRING: ideas for both the mass action and the week-long thing, activist AND non-activist friends, food to share.

LEAVE AT HOME: party lines, hierarchicalness, authoritarianism and general arseholeness.

Love and rage,
London Mayday.