Call to action for Marikana Day anniversary
Social movements and trade unions in Cape Town say: We Are All Marikana!
Organisations from across Cape Town and surrounding rural areas are calling progressive forces to remember the fallen at Marikana. MarikanaDay represents the coming together of all of our struggles.
When we say "We Are All Marikana" we call for workers and the poor to:
* Re-occupy our land!
* Demand a living Wage!
* Provide housing and basic services for all!
* End police brutality!
* Take back the right to protest!
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Please join us for these two important events:
Friday 15 August: “We are all Marikana”: March and vigil against police brutality, Cape Town CBD
· Where: Meet at Parliament at lunch time and then march via Cape Town Central SAPS to the Grand Parade
· When: 1pm – 5pm
· What: We will start with a picket outside parliament where we will call on The Portfolio Committee on Police to act on those responsible for the Marikana Massacre. We will then take our case against police brutality to the Cape Town Central Police Station. Finally, we will end up at the Grand Parade for a mass candle light vigil in memory of everyone in South Africa who has been murdered by the South African Police Service.
· Why: The 34 miners shot down on 16 August 2012 have become a symbol for police brutality and impunity. Two years later, not a single police officer, government official, or Lonmin employee has even faced charges for pulling the trigger or organising the massacre. At the Farlam Commission we have seen the police withholding and fabricating evidence. Justice delayed is justice denied.
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/256635867880208/256635871213541/
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Saturday 16 August: “We Are All Marikana”: March for economic justice, Philippi
· Where: Philippi Train Station via Philippi East SAPS to Marikana Land Occupation
· When: 9:30am to gather & 10:30am to march
· What: We will start at Philippi Train Station and march to the Philippi East SAPS on Stock Road to demand an end to police persecution of our communities. From there we will march to Marikana settlement where we will hold a rally. The rally will include performing arts, spoken word, music, speakers from communities, trade unions and from the Marikana commission.
· Why: Social movements, trade unions and other organisations from all over Cape Town will commemorate the second anniversary of the Marikana Massacre. “We Are All Marikana” means that we suffer from a system that dispossesses us, exploits us, and puts the interests of the workers and poor last. We are therefore marching to re-occupy our stolen land, to claim the right to protest and to demand housing, basic services, a living wage for all, and an end to police brutality.
· For updates visit the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/343776395769402/
A full schedule of Cape-based Marikana anniversary events (subject to change) is attached.
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Contacts
Our Twitter hashtags will be #WeAreAllMarikana and #MarikanaDay
For media comment, contact:
Faeza Meyer (Housing Assembly) @ 0790886566
Vuyo Lufele (Numsa-WC) @ 0724850950
Thembelani (Marikana Settlement) @ 0603549571
To get involved and help mobilise, contact:
Ru Slayan @ 0832737242 & slyrua001@myuct.ac.za
Ashley Fataar @ 0766476101 & ashfataar@gmail.com
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Participating organizations
Marikana Land Occupation
NUMSA Western Cape
Housing Assembly
Equal Education
UCT Left Students Forum
Right 2 Know Campaign
African Arts Institute
Activate
Ndifuna Ukwazi
Social Justice Coalition
DLF
and many more…
Attachments
Marikana Day - Full Programme