Black Ball May Day celebration

Blackball Museum of Working Class History Trust and Unions West Coast.

Invitation to Mayday, May 4-5, 2007.

Once again, we are proud to offer a programme, based in our iconic
village, which will be intellectually stimulating and which will charge
the activist batteries.

Blackball Museum of Working Class History Trust and Unions West Coast.

Invitation to Mayday, May 4-5, 2007.

Once again, we are proud to offer a programme, based in our iconic
village, which will be intellectually stimulating and which will charge
the activist batteries.

Programme

Friday 4th: Assemble, Choir- 8.00pm, Blackball Hilton.

Saturday 5th: 10.00am-12noon. Forum: Negotiating the environment.
Members of the Save Happy Valley Coalition will debate with
representatives from local unions on issues of the environment, jobs,
regional economy, processes of decision making and anything else that
comes up. There will be opportunity for public debate and discussion.
Facilitated by Leigh Cookson. Blackball Working Men's Club.

12.00 - 1.00pm. Lunch will be available at the Hilton.

1.15pm. March through town (bring banners), ending at Community Centre
at which plans for 2008 will be announced.

2.30pm - 4.00pm. Launch of video That Fateful Day (video Paul Maunder;
producer: Jo Hart, editing: Vanguard Films); oral history accounts of
the Strongman Mine Disaster, from relatives, workers and mine rescue
personnel, recorded last year at the Runanga Centenary... Runanga
Working Men's Club. Transport to Runanga will be available.

6.30pm Workers' Dinner at the Hilton, with after dinner speakers on the
subject of: Does socialism have anything to offer the present day NZ
working class. The emphasis is on specific models of governance/action/
economic relationship. Introduced by Paul Maunder, NZ Writers Guild.
Speakers: Matt Winter EPMU, Leigh Cookson ARENA.

Accommodation is available at the Hilton or the Club Hotel. Billets can
be arranged for those on limited income.

For busy people there is a commuter flight (Air West Coast), Wgtn-
Greymouth late afternoon on Friday, returning to Wgtn Monday morning-
you're in town by 8.45am. Otherwise you can fly out of Hoki tika on
Sunday. Transport available to and fro airports.