[IMC-UK-Features] PROPOSAL: Announcement of EuroMayDay Parades and Coverage

[maqui]

Hi

On Monday, April 7, 2008, at 09:58  am, ionnek at aktivix.org wrote:

> in previous years, we used to cover the first of may with an action 
> topic, which
> included the EuroMayDay Parades.
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2007/mayday/

Yes, but, and as far as I know, this year there seems to be less 
activity going on here in the UK, at least as far as I know anyway.

> I would like to propose to do this again.

What do you mean? A Major Report page? Ok, but there isn't much being 
posted in the wire about Mayday or EuroMayday parades so far, apart 
from a call to action from Berlin, and a promo video I think.
>
> Could we put an announcement in the left-hand column?
> The entry could be:
> <p>
> Europe:<br>
> May 1: <a href="http://euromayday.org/">EuroMaydayParades</a>
> </p>

I've added it in the Upcoming, under the Europe sub header that had ben 
dormant for months.

> As far as I know, there is no explicit "EuroMayDay" in the UK, but 
> last year,
> many of the radical Maydays in the UK were connected to the "precarious
> maydays", either in form or in content.

Well, as I said, so far I haven't seen anything being prepared in 
London at least, but I could be completely wrong. The only thing I know 
of taking place is the traditional TUC march, and I don't know if there 
are plans to have an autonomous block within it. I haven't seen any 
call or anything going on elsewhere connected to the "precarious 
maydays' neither.

What I've seen though, is a call for the 2nd of May called "Revolting 
London: anarchists against the Mayoral elections".

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2008/04/396079.html

Although this is nothing to do with the Euromaydays, or any radical 
mayday thing. I don't know, there may still be an autonomous block in 
the TUC march. Is there anything else going on in the UK that would 
make an specific MayDay Major Report page necessary?

> I am going to work on a roundup on the European level. Is anyone up 
> for helping?

Great, that would be very good, and if anything else, it could be 
turned into a feature. I will try to chip in adding links and that.

Cheers
maqui