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Media releases
- Apr 17 Theatre Yes presents THE MERCY SEAT by NEIL LABUTE
- Apr 18 Workers’ Art Exhibit Opening and Global Visions Film
- Apr 18 May Week Labour Arts Festival
- Apr 18 May Day for Medicare March
- Apr 28 Dark Side of a Boom — Worker Death Rate Hits 25-Year High
- May 01 It’s May Day!
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Artist Lineup
- The Alberta Caledonia Pipe Band
- Aroot’s Bazaar
- Baba
- Banner Theatre
- Bill Bourne
- Boonaa Mohammed
- Don Bouzek
- Elaine Brière
- The City Streets
- Kevin Cook
- Daniel Buxton
- Maria Dunn
- Eleutheros
- Emcee E
- Eshod Ibn Wyza
- Bob Fenske
- Tom Gale
- Ground Zero Productions
- Heather Inglis
- Isaac Isitan
- Khadija Jetha
- Mary Joyce
- Le Fuzz
- Low Flying Planes
- Jaro Malanowski
- Lynette Maurice
- Humberto Medeiros (Bass)
- Mile Zero Dance
- Terry Morrison
- Notre Dame des Bananes
- Notre Dame des Bananes Choir
- Rh’ena Oake
- People’s Poets
- Pip Skid
- Prairie Cats
- RadioVacana
- Red Hot Daggers
- The Revtones
- Shimaisha Robinson aka Dwennimmen
- Self-Rule
- Guy Smith
- Souljah Fyah
- Trin Can Steel Orchestra
- Truth Is
- The Uncas
- Memi von Gaza
- Zu-Ma, Talent to Amuz
- Cindi Zuby
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Events
- Apr 27 Worker’s Art Show Opening
- Apr 28 International Day of Mourning for Workers Killed and Injured on the Job
- Apr 28 Maria Dunn — “Troublemakers”
- Apr 30 Dedication of the Union Promenade
- Apr 30 Labour Cabaret
- May 01 May Day March
- May 01 Stompin’ Chaos: Labour Arts & Youth Street Jam
- Apr 26 Alberta Labour History Institute Web Launch
- Apr 27 Global Visions and May Week present “Betrayed: The Story of Canadian Merchant Seamen”
- Apr 27 Workers’ Art Exhibit Opening
- Apr 28 Reel Femme ‘06 Opening Gala Film: El Contrato
- Apr 29 Labour Cabaret
- Apr 30 The IWW presents “The Inheritance: Lessons from Past Struggles For Today’s World”
- May 01 May Day for Medicare March
- May 01 Labour, Arts & Youth - Street Jam
- May 02 The Non-Academic Staff Association at the University of Alberta Celebrates May Week
- May 04 May Day Workers & Wonders: A Story Cafe
- May 04 The Mercy Seat
- Apr 27 Celebration of Anti-Capitalist Consumption!
- Apr 28 The International Day of Mourning
- Apr 28 Ed Ewasiuk Memorial Benchmark
- Apr 28 Labour Cabaret
- Apr 30 Global Visions Film Festival
- May 01 May Day March
- May 02 IWW Panel and Pub Night
- May 03 Accessing Justice Panel
- May 04 Anarchist Bookfair Collective Panel and Discussion - the Radical History of May Day
- Apr 26 Labour Appreciation Night
- Apr 27 Workers Art Show
- Apr 27 The Women of Brukman - Western Canadian Premier
- Apr 28 Day of Mourning
- Apr 29 Workhorse Spoken Word Project
- Apr 30 Margaret Crang Event
- May 01 May Day March
- May 01 “COMRADES”
- May 02 Cabaret with The Peoples Poets, Le Fuzz, Daniel Buxton & the DB Review and master of ceremonies BABA
- May 03 Direct Action: Unions and WIldcats
- May 03 The Parkland Institute Presents: An Evening of Culture and Music
- Apr 29 One Big Union For ALL Workers
- May 01 May Day March and Community Drum Circle
- May 01 Utah Phillips Tribute
- May 02 May Week Labour Cabaret Night
- May 05 Movie Night
- May 07 GWG: Piece by Piece
TV programming
- Apr 06 Defying the Law
- Apr 13 One Man’s Paradise
- Apr 20 Women of Change
- Apr 27 The Producers’ Strike
- May 04 The People’s Poet: Alden Nowlan
- May 11 Labour Pains: The Birth of an Industry
- May 18 The Notorious Mrs. Armstrong
- May 25 A Heaven on Earth
- Jun 01 On Strike: The Winnipeg Strike / 12,000 Men
- Jun 08 Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle or Mutilate
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Articles added in
- Labor Day and May Day
- May Day, The Workers’ Day
- The Haymarket Affair
- May Day and Labor Day
- May Day in the USA: A Forgotten History
- May Day - the Labour Day
- The Drama of Haymarket
- The Haymarket Massacre Archive
- The Knights of Labor
- Marxists.org Archive Search: ‘May Day’
- The Kent State Massacre (may4archive.org)
- International Workers’ Day
- Brief Origins of May Day
- From Pagan Origins to the Labour Movement
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Downloadable materials from
- May Week Youth Events Flyer 2004
- May Week May Day March Flyer 2004
- May Week Poster 2004
- May Week Flyer 2005
- May Week Poster 2005 (black and white)
- May Week Poster 2006
- May Week 2007 Poster
- Workhorse Spoken Word Project handbill
- 2008 May Week Poster
- Women of Brukman colour poster
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Video from May Week
- Kevin Cook at the Labour Cabaret, 04.29.2006
- Radio Vacana at the Labour Cabaret, 04/29/06
- Shima - spoken word at the Labour Cabaret, 04/29/06
- Souljah Fyah at the Labour Cabaret, 04/29/06