Euro MayDay , 2.nd of May 2005 in Maribor, Slovenia

This great photo was made on the streets of Maribor, Slovenia which is also a hometown of Libra Radio. A group of a few Slovene non-formal organizations organized so called Euro MayDay meeting and parade within the sphere of EuroMayDay performances which took place in 19 European cities. It was first such an event in Slovenia so far and this is the main reason for low attendance. There were only some 50 protesters at the parade and among them we could hear also French, Portugese, Italian, German and English speaking people.
The basic idea of this movement is a demand for more human globalization and fight against precarity. As you can see police also played very important role in this should-be-peaceful procession trough the streets of Maribor. It is a shame what we can see on this photo.

Precarity is the most widespread condition of labour and life in Europe today. It affects everyone, everyday, in every part of life: whether chosen or imposed, precarity is a generalised condition experienced by the majority of people.

Precarious people are now the corner-stone of the wealth production process.
Notwithstanding this, we are invisible and count for nothing in the traditional forms of social and political representation or in the European agenda.

As precarious of Europe -- flex, temp and contortionist workers, migrants, students, researchers, unmotivated wage slaves, pissed off and happy part-timers, insecure temps, willingly or unwillingly unemployed -- we are acting so as to grasp the moment/our time and struggle for new collective rights and our individual and collective possibility to choose our future.

This is why we are building a public space on a European level to catalyse new forms of social cooperation, and maximize the sharing of skills, experiences and resources: to construct and bring to life a new social imagination