Month of May Day is being organized on the following specific principles:
- We affirm the collective power of all who labor – paid and unpaid, formal and informal, in care work and field work – and celebrate all of the activities that sustain us and our communities.
- We take an international and anti-colonial solidarity approach, and support communities and people’s struggles against borders and jingoism.
- We affirm and support trans people and the broader ecosystem of gender and sexual liberation.
- These events are in the spirit of the People’s Global Action Hallmarks:
- A very clear rejection of capitalism, imperialism and feudalism; all trade agreements, institutions and governments that promote destructive globalisation.
- We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination including, but not limited to, patriarchy, racism and religious fundamentalism of all creeds. We embrace the full dignity of all human beings.
- A confrontational attitude, since we do not think that lobbying can have a major impact in such biased and undemocratic organisations, in which transnational capital is the only real policy-maker.
- A call to direct action and civil disobedience, support for social movements’ struggles, advocating forms of resistance which maximize respect for life and oppressed peoples’ rights, as well as the construction of local alternatives to global capitalism.
- An organisational philosophy based on decentralisation and autonomy.
- Accessibility: Any event participating must allow face masks; be in a venue that does not require stairs to access; be in a place a person could reach via public transit; and (if there is a fee) include a Pay What You Can option of $0.