May Week 2006 archives

May Week Festival Sponsors 2006

• 2006 sponsor list

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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 2006

• Don Bouzek
• Elaine Brière
• Kevin Cook
• Tom Gale
• Heather Inglis
• Mary Joyce
• Jaro Malanowski
• RadioVacana
• Shimaisha Robinson aka Dwennimmen
• Souljah Fyah
• Memi von Gaza
• Cindi Zuby

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Events 2006

• 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

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Articles added in 2006

• 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 2006

• May Week Poster 2006

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Video from May Week 2006

• 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

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